Thoughts and religion

[dystroyreality]

I've thought a lot about religion in the past and I've always wanted to believe in something but there's a part of my brain that has too much logic to it that won't really allow me to just believe or just "have faith" in one deity

Comments

[karyxtian]

We should get together sometime and talk about this... And I'd love for you to join us for church one Sunday. :-)

[dystroyreality]

I'm for getting together one day, though it seems that our schedules never mesh well. Perhaps one day I'll come up there when I don't have to work the next day.

[montieth]

I believe as you once did. Nothing wrong with that, it's just perspective. Such is a personal thing and different things work for different people. If it doesn't work for you find something that does work. People who try to make everyone fit into ONE mode just don't grasp the import of how each person really is different in this way.

[wanderingastray]

it sounds cheesy or trite, but it will in fact *come* to you. You wake up one day in just the right light, or someone says exactly the right thing at exactly the right time, or you read the perfect sentence and it changes your world forever.

the point is.. experiment. To me, it's all different sides of the same story, so keep looking until you find the side that makes the most sense to you. Maybe it's christianity. Maybe it's buddhism. Maybe it's wicca. Maybe it's hinduism. Maybe it's voodou. Whatever it is, when you hit on it, it will absolutely strike the right chord inside you.

[dystroyreality]

thanks, yeah ive looked at many religions in the past but... guess I just want to see different people's view.

[dystroyreality]

perhaps we can accomplish this one day.

[aquaknot]

For a long time now I've seen the world as "my Bible." The hints and lessons that surround me are what I need to learn. Life itself could be viewed as one long prayer, one long attempt at achieiving Grace or maybe approval from the divine. I consider the Bible itself to be basically a "user guide" that was written from the perspective(s) of others. Helpful, but not always exactly on point in my circumstances. I've read a lot about the various authors of the New Testament, and seen lots of stuff about people proving or disproving Old Testament events and while I find it interesting, those arguments are ultimately distractions from what I am going to do and think and learn in order to grow in my own spirituality. Yes I am a Christian but I am decidedly undogmatic except for a few things like that God is essentially "unknowable."