Ditto! I'm with you all the way jimjam, Alisa and OMJ! can you please be my spokesperson for my mother JJ? we seem to always butt heads when it comes to this topic. You see she has been a Catholic school teacher for almost 30yrs and I was raised in a Catholic family
and went to Catholic school all my life, except for two years at the end of high school. The only small difference between you and I is that I never really question the bible or went "soul searching" I never was in a period of my life when I was "confused" I just somehow knew the truth, I really don't know how when all I ever been around was religious dogma.
I guess I always took the bible as fables for teaching life lessons. In my mind it was all just stories and I was the type of person who never "asked questions" or went against the nuns. In fact I was the one with A's in religion class. I just always kept my opinions to myself until I became older. This is when I really started speaking out against the church. I would make statements to my mom like "why do we need to go to church when I can talk and praise God on my own in my prayers" and "why should I listen to the priest when he probably doing the same things he's preaching against" and " Church is only a meeting ground for people to show off their best Sunday outfits and to find a suitable mate" I swear to me at the particular church I was raised in, it always reminded me of a fashion show!
well you know that didn't go so well with mom which in turn made her say that I'm heading straight for Satan's door!
especially after I told her " Well I guess I won't be alone since most of the people in your congregation is hypocrites!!! The majority of them was dropping it like it was hot in the club the night before!"LOL!!!
It wasn't until I got into spirituality and I tried to teach her some of the amazing truths I learned, this is when she accused me of being a atheist.I believe that all religions has truth in them, but it's not just one that is correct. Many have lies
and half-truths this is due to what jimjam said:
"man wrote the bible, & upon many thousands of years it has been interpreted, misinterpreted, revised, passed down, reinterpreted and passed down again"
therefore IMO all religion is incorrectly evaluated. As stated from a book:
"It's embellished with assumptions, theories and hypotheses which are false".
It shouldn't matter whether it's Yaweh, Allah, the source or anything else it's still GOD!! it's not the name you choose to call him/her which I believe in duality also. But most importantly we are God, God is us and us is God.
When it comes to Jesus yes, I believe he walked the Earth, but he could have been a alien for all I know. Jesus probably was a guru of his time. A master like Ghandi. Heck you never know he could have been the reincarnation of him or someone else who is very spiritually powerful like buddha.
All in all you took the words right out of my mouth jimjam!
My conclusion is religion is a bunch of robotic
religious rituals by priests as a self-serving instrument of control. It's nothing but a t.v. show! a program that they want us to follow
so that they can be in charge. it's a power game and as long as we abide we're safe from the gates of fiery hell
that they also invented. It is easy to teach this altered notion to people who do not want to be responsible for their own lives. Slaves are such beings. As long as one chooses to assign responsibility for creation, existence and personal accountability for one's own thoughts and actions to others, one is a slave. This all has to do with a private hidden agenda that is beknowst to us.
With all the mumbo jumbo that I was taught and is currently being taught to others. I will leave this lovely saying by a philosopher known as Laozi Enjoy!
"He who looks will not see it; He who listens will not hear it; He who gropes will not grasp it. The formless nonentity, the motionless source of motion. The infinite essence of the spirit is the source of life. Spirit is self.
Love, Light and laughter
orb-queen
