Why do people attend their churches or temples? What makes them believe they are saved or born again? Are they nuts?
I believe that people want to belong to any organization that will fuel their belief system. I believe that people need to feel they belong with others who will substantiate their existence. I believe that these same people do not know they are getting themselves into another box.
There are a couple of co-workers in my department that have tasted the Catholic ways and have much to say about the limitation of this particular religion on their freedom. Both do not like to be forced into shifting their current beliefs because I believe that would unhinge their already nutty worldview.
Both read too much into this Bible and I do not understand why Asian would follow teachings that have been passed down by others of non-Asian descent. If these two only look at the history of how their particular organization has been created, that should be enough to open their eyes.
But it looks like their eyes have been graciously covered by this veil of deception and they find and accept the comfort behind this baby blanket that feeds their hungry souls. Both understand that the body is corporeal and only souls could be taken into heaven. To them, being mindlessly happy and offering ministries should be sufficient.
I made a comment that monetary donations are not sufficient and that getting their very hands dirty out in the field is essential to truer salvation. My words are limited and blunt but that should make these lost sheep look further than what their preachers, ministers, or priests convey as mouth pieces of inner truth.
My inner truth dictates that religion is nothing more than an over inflated box of hot air. Hot air is invisible to the naked human eye. We believe hot air exists by the fact that it is hot to the senses. Yet some simply do not believe in the unseen, like ghosts, or anything superstitious, angels, saints or any intermediaries between themselves and their One.
I’ve read somewhere that our country is a religious corporation. Religion is exempt from taxation, which means the organization could profit well from passing off past ideals and teachings as their own. There should be lawsuits for copyright of the original source for love, light and laughter.
Indeed, religion has sponsored beautiful works of art and great architectural accomplishments that are standing today as temporal testaments of human ingenuity and creativity. That is by no means another attempt to cash in on improving the value of the religious box, which is similar to getting equity on home improvements.
There are too many branches of religion already established in this country. If I were to open the phone book, I could find with relative ease the different divisions appropriate to the structure of any religious organization. I would be confused if I decided which new one I choose to answer my calling.
The children, moreover, would be further confused to choose any one religious box. This is especially true for children to have two sets of different religions from each parent. Or worse yet, I see no reason why anyone suddenly decides to change from the religion they are born into and raised by their parents to another one that fits like a glove.
I think that is why this country is so free that we could be accepted by any religious organization as long as we are told to do the righteous ways and their prescribed ways. I would hate to find out what would happen if people soon discovered the true nature of their religion and decided to tell the whole world.
Being outside the box is a lonely world. Being boxed again makes no sense either. Being open minded is better. You are the driver.
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