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Originally Posted by geri
What is the harm in believing in an intelligence and wisdom greater than our own, ....... Just some food for thought.
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Hi geri,
Are you talking about ''blind'' belief - the kind with no experience ---like trusting past poets and writers and scriptures that there is something called a God?
(Blake, Kabir, the Gita...)
I don't see any harm. Why would these people lie?
Why would their words strike a chord in our hearts anyway?
Did they see something?
Did their excitement cause them to write page after page about their Cosmic Consciousness?
I believe they did - I may not go along with their interpretation...
However, I personally don't have an experience of a 'blind anything' --- I think it is sweet people believe in something they have never ever
had an experience of --- I wish more people "knew" their was a Holy Spirit or Presence of God...oh well.
All in good time.
(Watch the atheists will jump down my throat for saying that...whatever.)
Religions and dogma of any kind I feel limit the soul's experience.
But a simple belief in a Creator that is benevolent - what harm could there be ?
I think you are right.