A deep thinker's view on religion and God. Just my phennings worth.
SKR
Deep Thoughts on Religion and God
I wonder of a God who can redeem his justice over man with guilt...constant guilt...I wonder too of a God who is just and yet those babies starve and are born with little chance for survival...justice here too?
I wonder of a God who sees beauty in all things...creates them equal and yet some have brains outside their heads...and live no more than hours...is this equal?
I wonder of heavens and the vastness of territories undiscovered and too large to fathom...is one supreme being responsible? Is a black hole a heaven?
I wonder of religions that preach if I'm not Mormon ( for example) then I'm surely damned to hell...then I wonder of the Catholic compromise in hell and heaven...the purgatory part where surely most all politicians and lawyers dwell...one where you work your way up...or fall into a chasm of hell fire and damnation forever. ( How long is forever? )
Is this a second chance?
I wonder of lies...confessions and being told to say a few Hail Mary's and then you can start over the next day. What kind of religion allows mistakes over and over...what does a just God say of this lack of control?
I wonder of the marriage of religion and politics and the games that are certainly okay under this guise....the domain of the Pope...the Almighty who gives his life for the Catholic church but finances gun running...
I wonder of the commercialism of religions and how God feels about regenerating pink hair dye and venom hair...Cadillac's and obscene homes...preachers waiting and taking prostitutes...the sale of redemption for a few retirement checks...The potions peddled on medias that for "a few bucks God will heal you"...
Where is a supreme God in this? Surely he's insulted by the power of men in sheep's clothing pushing the wares of heaven...
Then the wars...the lost children of our society...the Klan and Black Muslims...the hate groups that pedal religion to be tax exempt...all under the guise of their God and their religion.
What has religion become.?..not hope...greed?...yes...not security for the soul...for a price. No! Media hocus pocus and sensationalism perhaps?
I think the God dwells within and that today over centuries of misdemeanors in religions...and the hype it all garners from Hollywood to the White House...that real religion is dead.
I feel that few know that God is in the heart, the mind and that some (are they 'chosen') are more susceptible to faint voices from Heaven...what is this?
Its the oasis (the island) where the id and all its energies go when death is a relief...its the consciousness...the focus of the mind and its power that lays down the body and releases the energy to muse and drink forever the life of a God from within.
Each person of a just God...with the passions and compassions of a true heart...the one that never envies but accepts, refines and moves on to a positive role in life...is willed heaven...of their making...after all...if I think heaven for eternity would be a wonderful...fresh, beautiful and lush island...then the next person who left for their heaven may find a mountain or an eternal journey upon open waters in a Schooner.
Who's to say that my heaven would fit yours or theirs? This would be just reward for good souls.
I just want to say that God surely has his hands full with all these religions...the nay sayers...forcasters of doom for your retirement check...these prophets for pay...well they've left a bad taste in my mouth for a God that would say today's religions are justified in how they perform.
I prefer my thoughts of the gift for living good...my reward...my island and an eternal smile.
Not too much to ask but I'm open for your God...I am a child who craves the arms of her Father...the one who will tell me I've been good and I will be given a solid home with security in the here after.
I hope you understand this part of me honey...I'm confused by it all.
Oh, Susan...this, so much here, I, I wonder of, myslef and you've writen this so beautifully with an honest/probing honesty and wow!
yes, so, so much within this piece, truths I think many may share and, many, well...will just go on and on as this points out in its way...
powerful, thought-provoking and
you, so open and seeing that within ...within gooness, and sharing here so beautifully, yes, I too seek that Father, or that...what, hmmm...Love, Hope/Saving Grace here on earth?
This is ...well, again, pwerful and thoughtful and more!
I like your treatise on Religion and God its original and I love its subjective context. I agree with you there are so many why's? and if's. I find faith to be a gift and at the same time the crux of my intolerable scrutiny for truth. What is Truth? is a fascinating study into our pysches and what we find there might find astound even the most erudite of us. Take joy in your journey and keep on writing it is very good and engaging.
Thanks
Alain
I think you have good instincts to question as you did in the piece. Your words are logic tools to find reality for yourself in a world gone mad--largely as a result of various religious claims as you so eloquently enunciate. I can't understand that point of view that uses many of man's words to say that the status quo is the result of man's words (a bad thing), yet would offer the wildest possible imaginings, even beyond imagining, as an alternative to find the truth. My poem, Fuzzy Measures, offers an explanation as to why so many wild variants of "truth" are found in the metaphysical world. I will leave my argument at that.
Best regards,
Leland
An excellent essay, Susan valid questions. I agree with Rage first paragraph completely. some of his other
ones too;-).Creator God contains the Universe,not vice versa. He is beyond our ability to comprehend.Yet He cared enough to give us salvation by grace if we believe. Stop there forget the rest and you'll be okay. Forget Religion it is man made!Your concept of God within is the correct one.
A good essay on your thoughts about the moral and theological confusion caused by religion. All you have to do is "imagine" like John Lennon, and it all goes away. Remember, he was killed by a "born again" religious freak.
Interesting thoughts here, and even the most competent theologian (which is not me, by the way!) will sometimes find the whole thing confusing. Food for thought here -- thanks.
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yes, so, so much within this piece, truths I think many may share and, many, well...will just go on and on as this points out in its way...
powerful, thought-provoking and
you, so open and seeing that within ...within gooness, and sharing here so beautifully, yes, I too seek that Father, or that...what, hmmm...Love, Hope/Saving Grace here on earth?
This is ...well, again, pwerful and thoughtful and more!
Thanks
Alain
Best regards,
Leland
ones too;-).Creator God contains the Universe,not vice versa. He is beyond our ability to comprehend.Yet He cared enough to give us salvation by grace if we believe. Stop there forget the rest and you'll be okay. Forget Religion it is man made!Your concept of God within is the correct one.
Thanks for sharing!!
Love tinka