God vrs Religion
Religion is a mechanism through out which people intend to connect to God.
God is humanly indecipherable, but generally speaking, God is everything that is good.
We humans only know love and kindness through ourselves, through our human relations. Therefore, I think it would be correct to describe God as everything that is good in ourselves: truth, love, respect, compassion, solidarity, kindness.
History shows Religion has been the cause of many God-opposite human actions. In the name of God, people have done all sorts of injustices and cruelties for centuries, and continue to do so.
Why must we all try to impose our beliefs onto others? Who ever said diversity was a bad thing? Why do so many believe so? Why is diversity so hard to accept and embrace through respect and tolerance?
Modernity came upon humanity with secularism and technology, "making life simpler". It's impressive that we yet continue to fight the same fights and behave in the same intolerant judgemental ways, even though we've seen the same ending play over and over again: suffering, hate, unhappiness. The exact opposite of what all humans are after one way or another.
It seems like Religion is once again becoming an existential issue in human lives, other than a social, traditional, cultural, historical mere coincidence no one has control over. And it is dividing people, instead of uniting.
I understand that people turn to God in the search of comfort, consolation and hope. This are tough times and we humans are being challenged in several ways and levels.
We need God. And if we look for it in each other's kindness we'll find God, a universal God that:
- is all love
- is all tolerance
- inspires us all to struggle to overcome all challenges and difficulties
- awakens in us the urge to never stop trying to understand and forgive
- makes us want to never stop trying to be happy no matter what
- reveals the pointlessness of hate and resentment
I know that's the God I want to believe in. And I'm not saying that Religion is a bad thing at all- what I'm trying to say is that Religion should never be confused with God. It is human-made and therefore imperfect. We should never confuse the point of Religion, which is to bring people closer to God (God being everything that is good). Religion is not bigger than God, and God should not be antagonized in the name of it. It's simply not logical is it?
God is humanly indecipherable, but generally speaking, God is everything that is good.
We humans only know love and kindness through ourselves, through our human relations. Therefore, I think it would be correct to describe God as everything that is good in ourselves: truth, love, respect, compassion, solidarity, kindness.
History shows Religion has been the cause of many God-opposite human actions. In the name of God, people have done all sorts of injustices and cruelties for centuries, and continue to do so.
Why must we all try to impose our beliefs onto others? Who ever said diversity was a bad thing? Why do so many believe so? Why is diversity so hard to accept and embrace through respect and tolerance?
Modernity came upon humanity with secularism and technology, "making life simpler". It's impressive that we yet continue to fight the same fights and behave in the same intolerant judgemental ways, even though we've seen the same ending play over and over again: suffering, hate, unhappiness. The exact opposite of what all humans are after one way or another.
It seems like Religion is once again becoming an existential issue in human lives, other than a social, traditional, cultural, historical mere coincidence no one has control over. And it is dividing people, instead of uniting.
I understand that people turn to God in the search of comfort, consolation and hope. This are tough times and we humans are being challenged in several ways and levels.
We need God. And if we look for it in each other's kindness we'll find God, a universal God that:
- is all love
- is all tolerance
- inspires us all to struggle to overcome all challenges and difficulties
- awakens in us the urge to never stop trying to understand and forgive
- makes us want to never stop trying to be happy no matter what
- reveals the pointlessness of hate and resentment
I know that's the God I want to believe in. And I'm not saying that Religion is a bad thing at all- what I'm trying to say is that Religion should never be confused with God. It is human-made and therefore imperfect. We should never confuse the point of Religion, which is to bring people closer to God (God being everything that is good). Religion is not bigger than God, and God should not be antagonized in the name of it. It's simply not logical is it?
rocio - 8. Jun, 21:48
