Let's get spiritual..

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I was thinking about the fact I'd not been in a heavy religion based conversation in a while, so I was curious if anyone would want to divulge anything in their belief-system? I'll start.

Born & indoctrinated into a religion I feel there are two general people-types....Socrates might say the same, calling them the philosophers and the non-philosophers....I think there are those who accept this indocrination open-heartedly...and there are those who question it thoroughly and seek 'their' honest religion. I've definitely been the later. In an effort not to make this post too long, I'll skip the questioning period of my life.....but I still can't listen to too many Bible readings without getting sometimes Frustrated. It's not because I don't believe what's in them....I guess it is the way they are presented to me.

Also with all of my studying I've learned from a multitude of sources and have formulated things as I see them that touch in several of my areas of study. I do not believe in hell....I think it is a scare tactic....I believe in Heaven though I feel it is hardly attainable...I don't think you die and go to one place or the other. I believe in reincarnation, or Socrates' concepts of perpetual reciprocity vs linear continuity. I don't believe that going to church makes you a good person, or that any religion is better than another...only that certain beliefs belong to certaiin thought processes and that as long as you try to be good all things will in the end work themselves out. I believe that believing is nothing compared to questioning because only one of the two requires thought.

I believe that the Bible is nothing more than a book of good stories that teach valuable lessons and that any transcendental concepts it once held have been lost in translation. While that sounds bad, would one of you please write in Japanese the concept of the DAO, then translate it to English? Some concepts cannot be translated, if they can even be written at all. My beliefes of Jesus being Lord, God Almighty??? I worship God, and I think that Jesus was the greatest of the christian revolutionaries, but I do not think that he is God. So I worship God, but not Jesus in that sense....I'd feel like I'm worshipping a Golden Lamb. Scorn me, but if you know much about Christianity compared to Islam, they are VERY much the same on a hundred different levels. One thing I think they have right is that they do not worship Muhammed in the converntional sense that we (as a people) worship Jesus....they worship Allah directly while I think most Christians are honestly scared to do so.

Tell me what you think.....

and we're all adults here, so I don't think that you should hold much in.....but please, no one try to push your religion on someone else and tell them they are wrong...thanks...