What is your religion and why do you like it?
Also, how do you think it could be improved/leveled up?
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18-21, M
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Tastyfrzz · 61-69, M
I was born into lutheranism. Martin Luther had a great take on the resurrection of Christ. All sins being forgiven and no additional penitence required or something like that but then as I got older it all started sounding like gobbledygook. Three in one...Like the oil? What sin? Saved from what? Why would God punish you even though you had no say in anything? What plan? Original sin?? If there are devil's, demons, and angels...where are the flying horses? Sigh..
Maybe I needed to pray about it and have more faith?
Then when I asked anyone a question it was always answered per the infallible authority of the Bible. Great! So I read it cover to cover. Three times. The New Testament even more times. And then I realized it was fallible. Ok so what about the crusades and tv preacher's....all grace and salvation. What about other religions ( Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Mithraism, mormanism,). What about other experts books? Then you learn about numerology, hidden messages/ metaphysics, midrash, translation errors, historical evidence or the lack thereof, The misogynistic rewritings. The missing scrolls, the destruction/ obliteration of anything or anybody that was contrary to the story they wanted to tell, and the usurping of older stories, myths and word for word teachings from other, older religions. Then I found George Carlin. He made more sense than anything else I'd heard. Then I found Alan Watts. Maybe worth a listen to but I'm not into reincarnation or speaking in Hindi or whatever it is.
So now I think I'm terms of mass being energy so we are just a dream and whatever created us is just using us to experience life. I have no memory of being born. I cannot see it any more than I can see the back of my head through my eyes. There is no Santa Claus God. It's something else and it doesn't care. That's why there are wars and exterminations. We make our own and each other's heaven or hell by our words and actions in this life. Jesus is a nice story but It's a remake so I don't know if I can go along with the three in one stuff. I empathize with cows and chickens but I like steak and kfc. I was really hoping to see Kristin again after I die but that's probably not going to happen is it? Maybe I get to be her and experience her life. Or maybe when I die maybe the dream does also.
Maybe I needed to pray about it and have more faith?
Then when I asked anyone a question it was always answered per the infallible authority of the Bible. Great! So I read it cover to cover. Three times. The New Testament even more times. And then I realized it was fallible. Ok so what about the crusades and tv preacher's....all grace and salvation. What about other religions ( Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Mithraism, mormanism,). What about other experts books? Then you learn about numerology, hidden messages/ metaphysics, midrash, translation errors, historical evidence or the lack thereof, The misogynistic rewritings. The missing scrolls, the destruction/ obliteration of anything or anybody that was contrary to the story they wanted to tell, and the usurping of older stories, myths and word for word teachings from other, older religions. Then I found George Carlin. He made more sense than anything else I'd heard. Then I found Alan Watts. Maybe worth a listen to but I'm not into reincarnation or speaking in Hindi or whatever it is.
So now I think I'm terms of mass being energy so we are just a dream and whatever created us is just using us to experience life. I have no memory of being born. I cannot see it any more than I can see the back of my head through my eyes. There is no Santa Claus God. It's something else and it doesn't care. That's why there are wars and exterminations. We make our own and each other's heaven or hell by our words and actions in this life. Jesus is a nice story but It's a remake so I don't know if I can go along with the three in one stuff. I empathize with cows and chickens but I like steak and kfc. I was really hoping to see Kristin again after I die but that's probably not going to happen is it? Maybe I get to be her and experience her life. Or maybe when I die maybe the dream does also.
