Comments | tiahanson: thanks, wikipedia!

tiahanson

thanks, wikipedia!

Feb 01, 2005 09:47

after reading this i'm really excited about going and finding a churh to attend. there's something about trying to help people find their spiritual path, and that is what i need. if i am correct, (and tell me if i am wrong, sweetsexysadie), but it seems they use different scriptures, practices, methods that come from all sorts of world religions. i like this ( Read more... )

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karatestereo February 1 2005, 10:18:34 UTC

Yay Wikipedia! Yay spirituality! Boo Southern Baptist Church! :)

tiahanson February 1 2005, 10:20:27 UTC

Ditto! gosh i have so many southern baptist memories that i look back on and go... really? wtf?!

babylonica February 1 2005, 12:22:05 UTC

wiki is pretty cool, i saw it quite a while back and it wasn't so great, but i've recently rediscovered it. they do a good job.

mindscribble February 1 2005, 10:57:29 UTC

The book I'm reading for my Anthropology class is about theories of religion. The first chapter included theories from these two dudes about how religion began because man needed a way to explain the things that go on around him (the result is beliefs of animism, that all trees, animals, etc have spirits and that is the energy that is behind them) and also to understand the difference between life and death (the life force/soul). It also talks about Deism, which is basically the belief that all religions are essentially the same... which is something I identify with even though I'm not religious.

My teacher told us yesterday that there has never been a civilization discovered that has not had a belief system of some sort.

babylonica February 1 2005, 12:23:28 UTC

Yeah, if you think about it, if we didn't have belief systems, we'd just be scattered like animals. It gives us culture, traditions, and a basis to judge criminals on, etc. I loooove anthropology.

babylonica February 1 2005, 11:28:40 UTC

Please don't take this as an attack it's just my opinion and questions :D You've struck my interest on this one, lol. I like to learn ( ... )

babylonica February 1 2005, 11:32:32 UTC

It's like every religion is about serving that individual, but christianity is the only religion where the "truth" is found outside themselves and the point is to serve God.

but people of every world view get lost and ends\ up getting caught up in the religion itself and not the meaning and point of it's belief system, and things get fucked up, and people use it to manipulate others. :(

tiahanson February 1 2005, 11:44:17 UTC

we are all looking for our own personal truth. you think you know what THE real truth is, but you do not. you can only have faith, like everyone else. you are in no position to decide that one faith is more correct than another.

christianity is not the only faith thats point is to serve god. that is where you should do a little more research.

i don't view any of this as an attack, and don't take offense, but the way you're viewing all this as having no point or being strange or rediculous and not seeing how anyone could take that seriously, is precicely how i see christianity.

christianity was by far not the first religion ever. there are many faiths that predate and have outnumbered christianity in years that it's been practiced.

saying to others that christianity is the "right" way is arrogant and narrow minded, to say the very least.

babylonica February 1 2005, 11:59:48 UTC

I deleted this comment cause it came out wrong, had to edit it.

I said everyone and I include myself in everyone. Dangit, no one ever gets it. See, I was saying that christians believe that the word of God is Gods absolute truth, not THE truth, not the truth that can be found within themself; because it varies from person to person. People can convince others that their way is right, but then they're just being self righteous and trying to give themself glory. It's GODS truth, seperate from us, a seperate foriegn entity almost, and we can chose to accept it or not. If not, we find our own truth.

OF COURSE it's narrowminded because there is no right or wrong way for us, but if we chose to follow God, we have to obey HIS truth, HIS rules, not OUR truth and OUR rules which are only right and legitimate for only that individual person.

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blairpettrey February 1 2005, 11:34:07 UTC

“There is only one God and He is God to all; therefore it is important that everyone is seen as equal before God. I’ve always said we should help a Hindu become a better Hindu, a Muslim become a better Muslim, a Catholic become a better Catholic.” --Mother Teresa

tiahanson February 1 2005, 11:55:14 UTC

props to mother theresa for being open minded. more people should follow her example.

babylonica February 1 2005, 12:03:56 UTC

amen :)

moosebp February 1 2005, 12:46:42 UTC

I liked best of all the quote from Mother Theresa.

Whatever you believe, at least believe something.
I have seen firsthand why most people that shy away from religion, have done so alot because of Southern Baptist...they are extreme right or wrong, black or white period. No in between, no gray or even rainbows I call myself a Christian when in fact I'm an independent...I just have a faith in what I believe. That's the key word. BELIEVE. No one knows anything. You're born, you live, and you die. I'm not about analyzing what we might become afterwards, or have been before. I know what I FEEL in my heart. That's not belief, it's experience from FEELING ( ... )