Oh, Lord
Religion. Philosophy. Spirituality. Separate yet intertwined. So many big groups Catholicism, Buddhism, followers of Islam. Protestant and Jewish people plus so many smaller groups and sects too numerous to mention. A true Tower of Babel.
That we're born and raised into one doesn't mean that we have to stick to all the dogmas and precepts of same. Not so many people switch from one major group to the next though. It seems to stick to us like DNA. We don't switch but, at least some of us get away from the formal stuff of the established Church. We can no longer tolerate the discrepancies between what is preached by the clergy (from priest to pope) and what is practiced by a good deal of them behind closed doors in real life. We can no longer deal with the hy^pocrisy and the base acts that surely will send them staight to Hell. We blacklist them altogether.
It gets impossible to believe that a charitable God - of whatever denomination - would allow all the atrocities done in His or Her name. And thus to philosophy and spirituality.
Back to the basics. In the end we come to the conclusion that a Greater Entity had to create this world. A wonderful experiment gone wron somewhere. But that conclusion has more to do with one's own conscience and one's own view of the world - and not based on some dogma fuelled down by someone or some group dictating how, who, and what you must believe.
Yes, that anonymous document called the Desiderata, barely one page long but worth twnety bibles sums it all up very well.
That we're born and raised into one doesn't mean that we have to stick to all the dogmas and precepts of same. Not so many people switch from one major group to the next though. It seems to stick to us like DNA. We don't switch but, at least some of us get away from the formal stuff of the established Church. We can no longer tolerate the discrepancies between what is preached by the clergy (from priest to pope) and what is practiced by a good deal of them behind closed doors in real life. We can no longer deal with the hy^pocrisy and the base acts that surely will send them staight to Hell. We blacklist them altogether.
It gets impossible to believe that a charitable God - of whatever denomination - would allow all the atrocities done in His or Her name. And thus to philosophy and spirituality.
Back to the basics. In the end we come to the conclusion that a Greater Entity had to create this world. A wonderful experiment gone wron somewhere. But that conclusion has more to do with one's own conscience and one's own view of the world - and not based on some dogma fuelled down by someone or some group dictating how, who, and what you must believe.
Yes, that anonymous document called the Desiderata, barely one page long but worth twnety bibles sums it all up very well.
posted by jbobby at 2:42 PM
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You're right about "Desiderata." I first became aware of it when it was recited by the class at my daughter's sixth grade graduation ceremony. For the last 20 years, I've had a copy framed and hanging in my home, where I can see it daily and remind myself to "go placidly." It's message is timeless.
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