On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Mary Jo Sminkey <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > Funny stuff. He's an interesting fellow, never herd of him before > > We certainly see MANY extremists that act outside the bounds of religion, I > personally think that religion has very little to do with it, they just > always find *some* reason to justify their actions, sometimes it's religious > and just as often it's not. Hitler, Stalin, Kmer Rouge, take your pick. > > Yeah. I hear ya. I don't actually read up on much of anything dealing with religion as a whole, so when this came up I though it was interesting. This dude is over the edge just like the rest of the people on the flip side of the coin. As a whole, the reasons to justify actions goes into morals not religion. But we gain many of our moral characteristics based on parts of religions. I like the idea of a cultural Christian, you could replace Christian with your religion. I take this as a more lenient interpretation. I'm still not sure there isn't in fact a God, but as a whole until science explains the Big Bang for lack of better term to describe it, I'm ok with looking into other areas of spiritual enlightenment. It's the control of energy inside yourself and through meditation that you find peace. Prayer in itself, I still consider meditation, but It's performed differently and I don't believe it has the same effect, belief in god isn't going to make you rest easier every night, but exercise, diet, meditation does go a long way to finding the path to enlightenment. Over time we come to a more in depth understanding of ourselves, religion does provide a good starting point to the inner growth of your mind and soul. When they start taking things so literally as to state we're only 6,000 years old or what have you, I have issues with that part since science tells us otherwise and as such, I try to focus on inner growth and the things your mom tells you growing up. Respect others, don't steel, mind your business etc... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:308269 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
