being set free
Many christians (myself once-1959) felt that accepting Jesus as their lord and savior had "set them free".
I'm sure "we" all felt that way for awhile
BUT what we really had done was to trade one type of "bondage" for another.
The "another" is a demanding set of requirements established by the various sects (denominations) for the purpose of maintaining a kind of control over its members and of perpetuating itself.
If you really want to be "free", shed the notion that there is some kind of "god" out there that wants you to worship it.
AND
this act will NOT make you more apt to go out and "sin" as fundamentalist preachers would have you believe. (This is a major topic worthy of an in-depth study by itself.)
posted by Humanist @ 8:21 AM
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At 10:40 AM,
'Seph Sayers said…
The true spiritually achieved one respects the natural spiritual world without having to personify it with a white or purple robe or a gold crown. That is junk. It is really childish. It is not true. Religions fight each other over the conceptual level of life. Once you formalize God with a certain shape and color and robe, you fight over what is in your mind as opposed to what is in someone else's mind. At the true spiritual level, conceptual vision is both all right and all wrong, until you reach the subtle essence...
...There is no separate "God" in the realm of integral truth.
Hua-Ching Ni
Ultimately, when we attempt to force God into a pre-defined box, we are completely in error. Our perceptions of who or what God is is extremely cultural in nature.
Rather then attempting to force God into a preconceived box of definitions we attempt to force others into following these preconceptions is when human suffering, misery, and pain begins.
To me, this is the process of conversion.
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