Posted by sojourner on September 14, 2013 at 14:35:04
Anyone who wants to (for continuity, I choose to say I have recently posted under "consider the source"), post family, what has your journey been like that lead to your current belief system, exploration? I didn't grow up in a very religious home and the bible was a book I had not read in anyplace but tf, of course with misapplication galore, but when I got out I sought out something similar, still under the cloud that a works filled life, only in a true church and not serving a parisite, was what I needed to find. I checked out b a priest, assemblies of God, Methodist and some black Irish roots Roman Catholicism. I also scanned some Buddhism, bit of Hinduism, and just didn't feel a "fit" anywhere. I scanned mythology a bit of philosophy and nowhere near a master in any. I related more to atheism because religions, to me, seemed more an attempt by people to deal with their own mortality and attempt to make sense of it all. I also visited some pagan/voodoo religions (no it's not like in the movies) and pretty much found practioners,priests,pastors, etc to be largely on the take at a higher level. So where I am at today is wondering and enjoying not having to have all the answers for myself or anybody else. Instead I try to work on my individual spirituality, meaning how I feel about myself and how that translates into how I act in the world around me. I have lots of room for improvement, still without an impossible need for perfection. I believe in energy and that there is so much that is unknown but I don't believe in any kind of God or Gods or Goddesses or deities demanding obedience and subservience. I like to express gratitude to fellow human beings. So I guess that makes me a-theist, but able to see and appreciate spirituality of people with or without a religion.