Hasn't it ever crossed your mind? I am sure it has. Do you think your religion is the only true religion and the rest are fools? Or do you not believe in any religion, but feel that there is something... something bigger then just individual unconnected objects?
I was raised a Catholic. I believed in God until I was in my early 20's. It was at that point in my life, that I started seeing the world as a whole, and yet religion seemed to divide everyone.
Religion made less and less sense for me. Yet at the same time I knew that there was something connecting everything... something big.... something that was actually bigger than religion. Bigger because it existed not only in people, but in animals and plants and mountains and the air and so on and so on.
In the past twenty years, I have come to think of religion as a form of "expression" for something people feel inside their being. As primitive man felt this, it was our nature to explain it.
I was raised a Catholic. I believed in God until I was in my early 20's. It was at that point in my life, that I started seeing the world as a whole, and yet religion seemed to divide everyone.
Religion made less and less sense for me. Yet at the same time I knew that there was something connecting everything... something big.... something that was actually bigger than religion. Bigger because it existed not only in people, but in animals and plants and mountains and the air and so on and so on.
In the past twenty years, I have come to think of religion as a form of "expression" for something people feel inside their being. As primitive man felt this, it was our nature to explain it.
Independently, people all over the world took this inner feeling of there being something beyond our bodies, and from it, we created Gods and Goddesses and Mythical beings and God like animal spirits.
We felt connected to the heavens, and found ways to celebrate and honor that feeling.
Only problem is that as one group came up with their own unique way to express the awesomeness they felt inside their "inner being"... another group was coming up with their version.... which led to people fighting over who was right, and who had the "true" religion.
Here's my observation.... maybe it's not "God" we feel. Maybe it's a pure type of energy that coarses through us, and everything that exists in the entire universe, and when we connect to it, it makes us feel euphoric.
For me... I have found so much comfort by thinking in this way. Religion has it's good points, but it's one major downfall, is that it divides us... to the most extreme base, where we fight to the death over it.
Aren't we smarter than this???
I'll leave you to think about this..... more to come.....
I'll leave you to think about this..... more to come.....
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