Finding religion

I was raised United. I did attend church for years as a child and a few as an adult. I took my children to Sunday school when they were younger as I wanted them to have a baseline of some faith. More so that they make a decision as adults from teachings and then their own belief system.

Only my mother attends church on a regular basis and has her whole life. As a family we attend for special occasions and weddings and funerals.

I do not consider myself to be religious but I do consider myself to be spiritual and actually follow many of the bibles teachings in real life. Mainly because they make sense (such as the commandments).

I think for some who find a new path in a faith they wish to share that as they are happy with what they have found. Most do not mean to be offensive or pushy about it, instead they just wish to talk about it. Rather like many who reform anything in their life they can at times be overboard with it.

I often have debated if religions finds a person or the person finds religion. In that many people turn to religion in a time of conflict in their lives or loss. So then which happens, do they seek it out for comfort or instead does the religion find them. After years I still have no answer to that.

I feel that if a faith or religion makes you a better person then it is fulfilling the objective of doctrine and that is a wonderful thing for the person and the faith.

I have no issue with any denomination but I do have an issue with the interpretation of some leaders of faiths.

 

My comprehension is based on reality, not that which requires fantasy to corrupt the mind.

 

Very well reality cannot be harmed therefor no harm exists, therefor anxiety is the misapprehension of what is so. Consider the lilies of the field, they neither toil nor spin but none are arrayed as fine as these.

 

Flowery language doth not a reasonable claim make.

 

Then dispute the claim not the form.

 

A wise man seeketh wisdom, but a fool is content with what he already knows.
(Proverbs)

 

So much for 1 Corinthians 6:19

 

and you still don't get it.

You want to have a discussion about what Jesus said or didn't say, and make mention that the UUC considers his teachings about the same as Buddhas, but only as long as it doesn't refer to the Bible or go counter to your beliefs regarding it is how it appears to me.

Come on now Karen.

Plus you seem to have pigeonholed me into YOUR conceptions of what a Christian is or isn't, and it would appear have labeled me as such, even though I have never made any such proclamation, I'm just taking a side in a discussion.

I love this shit .

I love all the different political, religious and other things I have been labeled with at HF, all based on "the other guy's" assumptions about me and not on my declaration of any type.
I have never made any statement concerning my religious beliefs or my political affiliations, yet I sure as hell get plastered with a lot of labels here, much,much more so than I do in face to face encounters.

I think one main reason I seem to champion Christianity around here is in response to utter ignorance and prejudice against it here, and try to illustrate some of the areas of glaring error in peoples attitudes and understanding of it.

and are you saying that telling me to go picket some New Age bookstore because they have differing opinions isn't a derogatory comment based on your assumptions concerning my religious identification, which I have never proclaimed here.

Maybe you need to go have look in the mirror if you are going to talk about intolerance.

 

A truly wise man seeks knowledge and places value on reality, but a fool is content with believing in something for which there is no evidence to support its existence.

 

Back to your task at hand flowery language does not an accurate claim make.
I'm yo huckleberry shoot me down.

 

you mean like Richard Dawkins?

 

I am unsure of what you mean.

 

Yeah, that line does have a Dawkins 'air' to it. Probably accidentally so.

 

And all our shit stinks and our promise of fresh air lies in the fact that we all like our knobs polished.

 

If you considered my statement to be flowery language, then you must read some rather droll material. My statement was as plain as they come.

 

Actually I consider your whole treatment rather pedestrian.

 

Have a nice evening......friend :love:


Wow, when you say edited, you mean EDITED! LOL

 

I have it on good authority that jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world even that blackly inkish ilk impish troll spawn so rest easy.

 

:rofl:

 

I cannot please everyone, and I have no intention of trying. :sunny: