72 Names Quote #2
“… God never created religion. Humans did. And this human-made invention has done nothing but create separation between people. Tragically, more blood has been spilled on behalf of religion than from all other diseases and crimes combined.
Religion fosters hatred. It give rise to ware and genocide – all in the name of God. Well, war, [...]
72 Names Quote #1
“… God never answers prayers. It is people who answer their own prayers by knowing how to connect to and utilize the divine energy of the Creator and the God-like foce in their own souls.”
p. 13
Questioning
Our cultural reluctance to question faith is deep. It’s a part of our Christian culture. It amazes me that we are still afraid of being labeled as heretics. Didn’t persecution of heresy end? Apparently not. I know of whole communities labeled as “Catholic” or “Lutheran” or “Dutch-reformed” towns where to not follow the party line [...]
St. Augustine Quote
“The very thing which is now called the Christian religion existed among the ancients also, nor was it wanting from the inception of the human race until the coming of Christ in the flesh, at which point the true religion, which was already in existence, began to be called Christian”
-St. Augustine, Retractiones
As quoted in: The [...]
The Bible is The Bible is The Bible: “NOT!”
I’ve been discussing spirituality with a long-lost friend that I grew up with. We’ve been apart for 20 years, but we grew up together in the same small church. We’ve been discussing that influence on our lives since.
We were talking about Bibles, and while the question didn’t come up directly, it got me thinking about [...]
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