A new way
Religion. It's been getting me down recently. Really down.
Thanks to an unxpectedly large dose of LSD I have managed to rearrage some thoughts in my brain and now I'm going to do something about it. Religion, that is.
Actually, I've found that it's not religion that's the problem. Religion can be a useful thing. The worshipping of a higher power is what enabled us to domesticate dogs and cattle. A religion is merely a pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance.
So now religion isn't getting me down. Religion is, in fact, the very thing that I think we have to use to tackle the real issue, which is the faith in irrational concepts.
All we have to do is to try and show people that it is much more beneficial to believe in a religion based on the ability of people to work things out for themselves using logic and reasoning.
Here you can find some of the basic principles of such a religion.
http://www.spiritualhumanism.org/principles.htm
It doesn't sound too bad, does it?
So there we have it. Religion is a powerful tool, let's use it to our advantage. Begin to educate your children in the principles of this religion and you can see for yourself the potential for change. Gone will be the need to fear the wrath of some non-existent entity and people will be happy and free to live peacefully together.
"The World is my country, science my religion" - Christiaan Huygens
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Ok
Does that mean you are going to start a religion that makes sense?
Check out the link above to
Check out the link above to the spiritual humanism website. That makes sense to me
I'm too pessimistic for
I'm too pessimistic for those guys
Interesting
Have you studied the "wheel of the year" used by ancient pagans?(and modern)
If you celebrate the seasons you always have something to look forward to.
They also believe in increasing spiritual powers with practice and devotion.
There is a lot there to learn about paganism if you are bored, but don't expect amazing results. If you want to see miracles you will probably have to use more psychedelics. (I don't recommend that. Drug induced schizophrenia is very real and the opposite of fun.)
Adam
Principles and Tenets of Spiritual Humanism
yea, that makes sense to me. I like it. A good list of rules/ideas/commandments that everyone can agree on! Funny how they coenside with what the Bible teaches.
caposkia wrote: yea, that
Yeah, if you throw out all the things that don't coincide (practically everything),they coincide perfectly with biblical teaching.
"I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions."
— George Carlin
jcgadfly wrote: caposkia
I agree. You can find support for just about anything if you search the bible thoroughly enough. The one big difference is that there is no need to call on some supernatural entity to force you into following them - if you think about life in a logical way then most people will come to similar conclusions on their own.
"The World is my country, science my religion" - Christiaan Huygens
I agree. You can find
You can find support for just about anything if you take it out of context in the bible. I'm willing to bet you will not find any "Teaching" from the bible that contradicts those beliefs or whatever you want to call them.