Part 2 of "Religion Seeks To Kill Spirituality"
This is a continuation of my previous blog post from Tuesday March 16 2010 entitled “Religion Seeks To Kill Spirituality”. I got such a huge response from one of the shortest blogs I’ve ever written. One of those readers sent me a message that I read and intended to write a short thank you message to reply to him. Well, it didn’t turn out as short as I intended. I guess I still had a whole lot to say on this issue, and his response was the catalyst that sparked the fuse (lol). So I’d like to thank and acknowledge him for being the inspiration for this blog post.
We agree on this issue. Sometimes I feel like Socrates and that the state of South Carolina will figure out a way to put me to death for not believing.
I don’t want anyone to think I’m bashing Christians, because I’m not at all. I was raised in a very religious Christian home, so I have a great respect for the message it teaches. I’m addressing religion as a whole here, and the beliefs of religious extremist. I do believe in God, and I consider myself a spiritual person, but If you want to give me a label, all I can say is I do not identify myself as “a Christian”, and that’s because I do not allow other people to define my relationship with God because that’s between me and him. I don’t expect everyone to agree with me and my way of thinking because I hope after reading this, you’ll start to use your gift of “freewill” and “critical thinking” to find your own path and discover what you truly believe.
If you haven’t seen this documentary, then I’d suggest you buy a copy and watch it quick. It covers a lot of the points I made in this blog. It’s informative, but it’s done in a humorous way… classic Bill Maher cynicism and wit. This is a definite MUST SEE. Here’s a link if you want to buy it on Amazon.com Religulous
Or if you’re too cheap to buy it, click on the title of this blog entry and you can watch it for free (streaming directly from icefilm site). You can thank me later:
Nobody has a monopoly on the teachings of Jesus Christ. And,I contend that were he to return today he would be much the same as he was 2000 years ago and he would protest the self-rightious and the status-quo and posibly say to some……