Having looked at my previous posts on this blog, I realize that I come off as being violently against religion. This is not the case. In fact I believe that everyone should study religion--not just the religion they were born to, but all religions. If after that, they choose to follow one specific religion, then by all means do so, and God speed. What I am against, and will remain opposed to till I breathe my dying breath, is dogmatism and fundamentalism. For these are the things that ultimatly lead to terrorism.
That you read the Bible, the Qur'an, the Upanishads, the Torah or any other religious scripture is in itself a good thing. There is a great deal of wisdom to be taken from these texts. But you must read it the same way that you would read any other work of fiction--gleaming from it the lessons you are ready to learn, and not taking it too seriously. If you read religious scripture as allegory, then suddenly all the absurdities that it spouts off begin to make perfect sense. You do not need to believe that a tower was actually built in Babel to understand the lesson of avoiding hubris and overarching pride. You need not believe that you will be a cow in the next life to understand that every moment, one dies and is born anew--we are never the same person moment to moment. In fact, this lesson is more quickly learned if you don't believe in the literal interpretation of reincarnation.
As far as the belief in God goes, I can only reiterate what I have already stated in a previous post: I don't know, and you don't either. Belief in God can only be accepted on faith. To say that you know God exists is to simply prove yourself an ass.
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Yay, I'm alive and 'well'. Don't know anything about flooding here O_o
Usually we don't have this kind of problems in my city and it's only rained a few times. Thanks for checking on me though ;)
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You sound like a friend of mine. He is interested in reading religion-based books, but not because he believes in a certain god. Like you said, we don't know if God exists. I like to think that God does exist, but not Buddha or Allah or any other famous gods..
I have an image of how I believe God is, IF he exists, and it doesn't apply to these major religions.
There's a nice book about Christ's life, but not like the usual stuff you hear. In Greek it's called 'The nine faces of Christ'. I haven't read it all yet, but I was left with an open mouth with that book. Everything sounded so real.. Anyway..See ya around :)
I just spent some time re-reading your blog, though I have never missed a post. I would like to make one suggestion, ok, a demand. GET OFF YOUR ASS AND BECOME A WRITER, A COLUMNIST, AN ESSAYIST....SOMETHING!!!! In twenty years if you have put no effort towards being published I will hunt you down and punch you in the face, and not give you a dime!
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