re: "I refuse to be a slave to religion!"

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Legalism (secular or religious) is for immoral, non thinking people who require systems because they've destroyed their own intuition.

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Or "intuition" is for weak-minded people who lack the mental acuity to engage in reasoned analysis.

Rather depends upon one's perspective, does it not?

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The Church has been experiencing a great falling away

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Its a social club with laws and rules.

Its fake spirituality. I honestly feel most have burned their ability to understand their own natural tendencies and intiution.

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Over thinking, over analyzing, separates the body from the mind
Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must
Feed my will to feel my moment
Drawing way outside the lines

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There is so much more and
Beckons me
To look through to these
Infinite possibilities
As below so above and beyond I imagine
Drawn outside the lines of reason
Push the envelope
Watch it bend

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Or "intuition" is for weak-minded people

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Intuition is what makes you human. Secular autists don't have this ability.

You're stuck with lists of laws and regulations to guide your morality.

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Lolz these threads are always started by some religious type ranting about something unreligious people are doing. I’m just responding to it

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The thing is, true "religion" doesn't require defending. Its a benefit, and those who experience it have a peace that others will not.

BUt most religious people don't understand this either.

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If you judge Christianity by those who practice it- you are doing yourself a great disservice

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Churches capitalize on cheap, legalistic religion. They attract systematic humans just like secular systems.

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I have never understood the PRIDE that religious folks take in just BELIEVING something for which there exists ZERO objective evidence.

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Huh?? "Zero objective evidence"? That's some serious clownage. And maximum anti-intellectualism not to connect the easiest of dots.

You mean elements and designs of life, self-replicating DNA and the material elements ALL created themselves??



(But sad just the same)

Scripture has plenty to say about the "Blind" and the "Foolish."

You say, "But...but...I've read the Bible!! I know the Bible more and better than Christians!"

"Reading" does NOT equate to "understanding."

Yoo cannot "see" because you are spiritually blinded. So sayeth the same Scripture you claim to read repeatedly -- ergo, ye can't understand a whit.

Psalm 19

The Heavens declare the Glory of God...

(Try re-reading again. See if you understand it.)

Religion is the vessel for the Idea that the essence of Perceived Reality is Spiritual. And that all thereafter - Energy, Matter, Time, ad infinitm - is a derivative of a Self Aware Spirit. I.e., God (with all the baggage that word infers). And that Self Aware, Spiritual Entity, is Loving. Love being a 'Feeling'; as Feeling is the cognitive basis for Awareness.

Further, as a derivative 'child' of said Entity/God, we are given 'free will' via "The Word"/'Rules' that govern all (even God, "in the beginning was the WORD...") to determine out ultimate 'Feeling', and derivate from said Feeling, our subjectively Perceived Reality. One might consider the implications therein, before choosing any particular Idea/Value for worship, and a basis for one's perceived reality/feelings.

What one believes, determines how one feels. One and done is the worst kind of "slavery", IMO. "Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose". They can have my share of no-god belief. I would wish such 'good luck', but since the end therein is cast in stone (eternal non-existence), well...good luck anyway. Maybe and end of life sit down with Jesus will sway the heart.

Rebellious adolescence, IMO.

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Yoo cannot "see" because you are spiritually blinded.

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Well, postmodernism is the guiding principle of the spiritually bereft.

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reasoned analysis

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Like for example, an infinite existence of vast, inanimate matter, or the stuff of presingularity physics?

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Religion is the vessel for the Idea that the essence of Perceived Reality is Spiritual. And that all thereafter - Energy, Matter, Time, ad infinitm - is a derivative of a Self Aware Spiri

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Excellent explanation. I would add its an interpretation thereof...

I believe "God" is everything and everything is God. We are human therefore susceptible to corruption.

Spirituality is a guiding life principle to me, if there's an afterlife...awesome. But I believe we are just energy, and God is the whole of everything.

One day science may be able to identify the 90%+ matter in the universe and decide there is a collective consciousness