Who thinks of "other than Christianity" when you think Spirituality and Religion [Spirituality & Religion]
I identified myself and belief as Christian for many years; majority of my life so far. I started off in life as an intuitive humanist. I went through "the dark night of the soul" and identified myself as an "ex-christian", yet not quite an agnostic or atheist. God's existence did not come into question. The Holiness of His Holiness the Christ, Jesus, has not come into question. I found a deep understanding of the bigness of God in the Baha'i Faith. And it has perfectly satisfied both the Spirituality and Religion that I now believe, in balance and truth, is TRUE.
What do YOU think of when you think of "Spirituality" and "Religion", how similar or difference are they in your perspective? How important is "what you believe" or is it important that you are learning, growing and maturing in your faith, whatever it is, and that it is OK for others to not believe as you do???
No proselytizing, no "my faith is better", just a question as to WHAT'S UP for you?????? Sending LOVE, Ms A
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[quote]What do YOU think of when you think of "Spirituality" and "Religion", how similar or difference are they in your perspective? [/quote]
Spirituality is a feeling [i](to some kind of higher understanding)[/i] Religion is a structure, where people worship [i](or have a bond/relationship)[/i] with some kind of higher power [i](represented by a deity or an object)[/i].
You can experience a spiritual moment, but you don't have to make a religion out of it.
[quote]How important is "what you believe" or is it important that you are learning, growing and maturing in your faith, whatever it is, and that it is OK for others to not believe as you do???[/quote]
It's important because it influences descision making. That's why you need to learn to be critical about believes, which by itself is a tough thing to do. Some presupposition are difficult to diffrenciate from the group of things that you know from gathering knowledge and the group of things that you have picked up and just took for granted/truth [i](without thinking about it first)[/i]. That's the struggle when you are trying to figure things out. I think it's better to not embrace things that you have [i]NO[/i] knowledge about, rid yourself of "faith" as much as possible, and try to evaluate life and circumstances with knowledge that you can measure and deduce to get a so good as possible basis for evaluation.
What others do is their business, as long as they don't take their wacky presuppositions to the voting booth or push it into a place of power where it starts interfering with other peoples life. But that's again... a struggle.
[b]@Kwek00 You can experience a spiritual moment, but you don't have to make a religion out of it.[/b] Or a spiritual lifetime, if we do all things right and don't want "religion" as we know it involved in our beliefs...true. great comment.
[b] I think it's better to [u]not embrace things that you have NO knowledge about[/u], rid yourself of "faith" as much as possible, and try to evaluate life and circumstances with knowledge that you can measure and deduce to get a so good as possible basis for evaluation.[/b]
That reminds me of one of my favorite quotes [b]"Don't believe everything you think".[/b] Just because we think it (and perhaps believe it) does NOT make it true. We can think extremely UNTRUE thoughts and come up with unreasonable and absurd conclusions based upon the "truth" or what we think is truth. I AGREE.
I thoroughly and wholeheartedly believe that what I believe, what you believe and what every human on this planet believes SHOULD BE PERSONAL AND PRIVATE. It's good that we have "some moral compass", or not, it doesn't matter, just DON'T expect anyone else to affirm your belief or accept it as their own, it is NOT our right to demand others to think and believe as we do.
@Kwek00 corrected. I copied and pasted from your post😘...makes more sense to us now. Unfortunately, those who troll, don't realize that they DO NOT KNOW and only "FEEL" that they believe "what is right".
@MsAlaineEYes There was a "no" missing in my part too. But after rereading your copy paste, I figured out that that doesn't make sense. But you interpretated it the same way as I meant it.
Nah, people that troll are conscious, else they wouldn't be trolls.
@Kwek00 They are conscious of their "trollishness" but truly NOT aware, imho...they are a nuisance not a true attack on anything. I don't mind being provoked to think in a different way; a troll on the other hand, won't hear our opinion. They are stuck. Maybe. I really don't care...lol
@Kwek00 I side barred an observation that trolls may agitate and provoke and want to cause trouble, but imho they do not read or understand what they are arguing against. I don't mind the opportunity to look at their train of thought/feeling, but I used it to challenge myself as I don't bother correcting others, I just shake my head and move on.
@MsAlaineEYes A troll doesn't argue. They just want to get an emotional reaction that they can feel jolly about. They just revel in negative attention. ... so it's better to move on if you figured out someone is a troll. The more negative attention you give them, the more they'll come back. Hence: "Don't feed the troll", let them suffer their loneliness and lack of attention by themselves.
