i've been thinking about God/dess(es)

[denelian]

specifically, in my quest to join the Bible to my personal, pagan beliefs - after all, until some censor came in and scratched her out, the OT talked about Goddess as well as God [Asherah, who has many other names in other cultures, which is only fair, since Yaweh/Jehova started off as a Babylonian God, and was only one of many] and then there's a

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[sankaku_atama]

I'll have to absorb quite a bit of this (though at first blush a lot does in fact coincide with many of my own belief structures), though the one thing that stands out to me:

Ezekial 16:49 Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Sound like any place we know? :D

[denelian]

no joke :( but it's not EVERYONE in the US who feels that way and acts that way. no problem finding 10 righteous people in this country!

[sankaku_atama]

no problem finding 10 self-righteous people in this country!

Fixed. :)

[denelian]

lol. true that.

[762nato]

Nominally Christian here, Episcopal by baptism. But I believe in the karmic wheel. We have to balance karma in order to ascend during our many lives. We are sent back with things to learn and lessons to teach. The people around us, the people we meet are all pre-determined to pay some part in our life. But our lives are not fully pre-ordained. Instead we have points on a curve that MUST happen. In between those points we can exercise free will, but we will have those encounters. How we react during those encounters can help us, or it can be helping others balance their karma. Murdering someone may seem negative, but if you are balancing their karma from a previous life when they murdered you, you balanced their karma and achieved a net positive. We can't judge the karmic value of an event, because we don't know the foundation it was built upon. We're operating with one page from the book and half-blind

[denelian]

i don't disagree - over all, it sounds like what i believe. though i think we more decide what lessons we think we need to learn, the outline of the beliefs is the same :)

and i won't go on a murder spree [unless Workman's Comp continues to fuck over my mother's husband - he's getting *worse*, godsdamnit!]

[the_dark_snack]

Happy Birthday!