The world's oldest religious practice: http://www.afrol.com/articles/23093
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 9:40 AM, sadovnik socratus <[email protected]>wrote: > What is Religion? > There are many meaning of the word ‘ Religion’. > What is Religion for me? > # > Book ‘ The pushcart prize, III: > Best of the small presses. > From a journey through the land of Israel. > By Pinchas Saden. Pages 132-133 ‘ > ‘ To be religious, in my terms, means to understand that > life is a parable of which God is the meaning – that is, > to live life as a struggle to make contact with the divine. > . . . . > – in other words, by the drying up of the previously > renewable source of human contact with God. > . . . . . . > There can be no other significance to life beside worshiping Him. > The rest is simple a question of how one understands this worship – > - that is, of how one understands God. > Worshiping God, as the phrase suggests*, has nothing to do with > pleasure or cultural frills. It is work, hard work, like paving a > road, > or farming land, or building a house. > In general, I don’t believe that the purpose of life in this world is > to snatch a little pleasure here or there. If it were, we might as > well have been born bedbugs. In whatever we live and do – in our > happiness, our suffering, our love, our hate, our passions, > our thoughts – we must live and do it not just for itself, but as > a parable, as a question, as a war. As work. As worship. > What is man? Man is question. God is answer. > If the answer were available here, in this life, the question > would be unnecessary. The painful tension between the two > gives life its energy.’ > =====================. . > / * In Hebrew the word for ‘ Worship’ avoda, > is the same as the word for ‘ work’. Translator./ > ========. > Best wishes > Israel Sadovnik Socratus > ============. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Epistemology" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<epistemology%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en. > > -- nubiaafrika.blogspot.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en.
