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The most conservative minds are those who deny climate change, hate China (or choose your own country) and denigrate others. Jl |
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Islam might be the most conservative religion but I have a feeling it is the least understood. For example, when I lived overseas, I would wake up early to hear somebody 'moaning as if in pain' while competing with the roosters crowing. It turned out, a Mosque was nearby and the person in 'pain', was ....... people praying! |
I remembered going past a Hindu holy building and heard a person in pain. I asked the person I was with what was going on and was told the person was constipated. It turned out, the person was also praying. LOL!
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Eventually, the question boils down to religion vs spirituality
Religion: A documented belief system, a doctrine, a scripture, a holy book, temple, church, gurudwara, mosque, a sect ... Prayer. Penance. Ritual. An image, a statue or statute. A formatted path, a roadmap, to connect with God. Spirituality: A child, innocent, sun in sky above, earth below, heartbeat within throbbing with love. Breath and voice of conscience. Sacred geometry. Directly imbibed wisdom by touch. Mindfulness. Thought rested meditation. Expansion and contraction, a pulse, a throb a wave, a mist, The pathless path. Both set off in humility and surrender for God search. Which path is valid? Do both get to the roots? Do all paths eventually converge? What’s our take? How open minded are we? Have we subconsciously ingrained religious intolerance? Is it our way or the highway? How unshakeable is faith, when tested? Are deep rooted lower instincts rested? Is our knowing vicarious or directly imbibed wisdom? Can we, do we, measure our consciousness progress? What is the underlying eternal truth, the noumenon? |
Some claim religion and spirituality go hand in hand.
In spirituality, is there not intolerance towards others who claim a different form of spirituality? |
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parents that have a religion that allows the kids to do whatever they want or parents that have a religion that sits define boundaries for the children? |
I think any religion can be taken to an extreme. Even the lack of religion can be taken to an extreme. Politics can be taken to an extreme. People can get addicted to anything.
Spirituality to me is just the recognition that there are many paths one could take that could quite possibly lead them to the same place. If, on the other hand, they become too dogmatic and doctrinal about it, they might get stuck in that place of idolizing the dogma/doctrines and true experience could fall from their grasp. |
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What religion do you feel parents might have that would not allow them to set boundaries for their children? Even parents without religion would likely set boundaries. They just wouldn't claim a higher power had set them first. |
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