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Re: something about religion...
Posted by Dr Pancho (Guest) - Friday, March 3 2006, 23:32:19 (CET)
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Kris K. wrote:
>The most humbling experience I have had to-date in my young life is being a husband. Through your childhood your parents provide for you this unconditional "safety net". Under their roof, I not only was protected physically but emotionally as well. I had this subconscious understanding that when the bottom falls out they will be there to soften my fall.
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>Moving out and on completely changes this understanding. You are now on your own. If the bottom falls out YOU have to stop your own fall. YOU have to protect yourself. YOU have to make ends meet. YOU have to think. It puts you in a different perspective than if you were living under someone else's watchful eye.
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>I think spirituality works in the same sense. You were born into a family and assume the traditions, religion, culture, etc. When you voyage off on your own, for your sake and for your new family's sake you must begin to define your own. I believe this is true self and spirituality. It is something that is constantly being redefined and growing with you. Not one trapped in a very old book that you cannot relate to.
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>Assyrians are trained to be scared. Trained to take the back roads. They still haven't "cut the cord".

...all too true. If there can be a society that freely and without prejudice allows individuals to believe in whatever spirit they want..or no spirit...without forcing unanimity on all, then you can indeed go find your own way spiritually.

But that is becomming less and less the way America works. There is nothing more frightening to fundamentalists of all brands than the spectre of all of us befriending, loving and living together as if our religions were completely personal matters. This is the poison of the born agains..it is never enough for them that they are allowed complete freedom of religion by the rest of us...to them, the fact that WE are free NOT to believe as they do, is a direct affront and a "limitation" we place on their "right to religious freedom"..because they give THEMSELVES the "freedom" to yell at us and accost us and to seek to subvert the very laws which grant them and us too, complete freedom of conscience.

This push to make born-again religions "patriotic" as well...and the rest of us into "enemies of morality" is nothing more than a political ploy to gain power, power in mandating religious beliefs and also the power that comes from gaining access to our Treasury as well as our military. The entire thing is hidden behind the magic name of "Jesus"...and we all help undo ourselves as long as we don't come out and say the obvious: that their Jesus is THEIR...he is not everyone else's Jesus. They claim there is only "one"..which simply means that the ONLY one is their's and the Jesus the rest of us respect is not the "true" one.

It is THESE people who are anti-Christ and a moral blight...as well as a political and cultural threat. For which no one has to get too worked up or start a counter movement against them...all we have to do is see them for what they are...not be cowed by them because they hide behind Jesus and we don't want to seem disresptectful..and they will be sent back to the margins, where they belong.



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