tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-718893870538926485.post6914003518457974510..comments2022-04-02T13:59:37.556-07:00Comments on Matters of the Spirit: Spirituality and Religion part 1Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-718893870538926485.post-4013523168958515972008-03-06T06:19:00.000-08:002008-03-06T06:19:00.000-08:00God is such a generic word that I can get away wit...God is such a generic word that I can get away with using it without truly offending the masses.<BR/>As you were noting, religion was invented in order to explain God. What if the 'God' is the Universe with an all encompassing conciousness and not some great deity sitting on a throne in the middle of some place called heaven? <BR/>Then religion needs to alter from being 'explaining God' to, how do we work with our connection to all things.<BR/>Then we begin to get into the 'higher things of God' or 'higher things of the universe'.Spirithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01303766890566694607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-718893870538926485.post-16482809659273877482008-03-06T04:42:00.000-08:002008-03-06T04:42:00.000-08:00Interesting.To me the whole problem for people ari...Interesting.<BR/><BR/>To me the whole problem for people arises when they forget that humans invented religion to explain God rather than the other way around.<BR/><BR/>I love religions, because they show me the creativity of human beings trying to explain their existance. I also enjoy how they show the history of human mental/spiritual evolution. But I don't think any of them show me God - only mankind's idea of God at the time it was written.Michellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02284595314525240584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-718893870538926485.post-68157735298650340012008-01-17T15:13:00.000-08:002008-01-17T15:13:00.000-08:00Trip over it... step in it. Tomato, tomAHHto.Trip over it... step in it. Tomato, tomAHHto.Geniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02035732790904857758noreply@blogger.com