Oh, that's a loaded question these days, isn't it? So many people have such strong feelings about God, both pro and con. So many people worry about what the right answer is - the correct answer. The right answer.
How presumptuous.
Whether you're talking about God or Gods or the Totality of the Human Spirit or the Infinite Universe - it's too big to comprehend. We can't. None of us. At least, not alone.
To closely paraphrase/almost quote Marion Zimmer Bradley (because I don't feel like going upstairs to check her book - I'll do that later), "All the gods are one god. All the goddesses are one goddess. There is one truth, and we all reach it on a different path."
We can't know "one", not consciously. Remember? Too big? We can each know our part of "all." That's why I'm not asking where you find God. Our human conceptions of "God" (or the non-religious equivalent) are rationalizations, attempts to cope with something we cannot literally know.
But we all know the feeling of wonder, of awe. We all know the excitement of discovery, of seeing elements of a situation or question fall into place. We all know the delight in the mystery of life and its cycles. We all know the breathlessness of feeling our connection to something much bigger than any one person. The Akashic Record. The Collective Unconscious. The first energy of the Universe. The Holy Spirit. So many more terms, not all of them religious. To me, Divinity covers them all.
I find Divinity all around me. I find it in myself. I find it in each of you. I find it in the world outside my window. I find it in my house. (I love my house.) I find it in a candy dish. I find it everywhere. I just have to remember to look.
I don't have The Right Answer.
I have A right answer. My right answer.
What is your right answer? Where do you find Divinity?
Your relationship with god(s)/goddess(es) has nothing to do with religion, you are born with a relationship weather you know it or not, it can not be taken away from you. What happens to you helps you define who are, some of us will never know who we are because they have questioned who they have become or tested their values. A soul never temped is weak, most of the people I know do not know real temptations. You must have the power to make the antisocial choice with out consonances to know real temptation. Do people truly know what choices they have?
ReplyDeleteReligions are formed because people can not believe that the powers that be have a personal relationship with them. Religions are all about control of the people who follow them, they set the moral standard, but clergy brake the moral standard all the time, or change the moral standard to fit the needs of clergy and or the needs of the followers. they may fight and die over some great story teller imaginary construct that the religion is based on. Religions do good works in your name because you are too lazy to do them yourself in some cases. They request a tides to pay for their service to you are religions intolerant of each other because of money or control? Religions change over time.
god(s)/goddess(es) does not need to change over time, truth is truth time does not change that. The universe will be weather we are here or not, no matter how screwed up our choices are. There are those who believe that it matters to the universe are they arrogant, does the universe exist if you are not there? Not to you, is the question reverent? NO
If the dog pees on the carpet does it matter to god? Is the dog immoral because he/she peed on the carpet? Is it revert to anyone outside your house hold? You set the behavior for the dog, you tell the where he/she can go and when. Who he/she can have sex with, what he/she can eat and the time they have to do this. You spade or nurtured the dog or you decide to sell or keep the puppies they produce. You may think of yourself as god to your dog(s) but you are religion to the dog(s) in your life.
Most people do not know the difference between god and religion does your dog?
But what do you REALLY think about organized religion, bluefoot? I'm not sure I know how you feel. (teasing...)
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