This post was initially a private message to a friend on Facebook,inspired by a question from her.
I was brought up in a very religious family.
At one time in my life,I rebelled real bad against the hypocricy of all this,stopped going to church,or doing anything religious and told to everyone's face,family and all,that I do not buy into their religion.I still believe that.I have no belief in religion,not the organised kind,anyway.And the smugness and presumptuous ways of some of those Christians gets on my nerves,BIG time...Most of them are hypocrites,anyway,and they are using religion as a means to feel superior to others,or to justify their self-righteousness and puritanic outlook on life.
However,I've learnt that just as there are wonderful people in all walks of life,so are some religious people wonderful and pure of heart.To tell you the truth,someone's religion is of no more interest or concern to me than their sexual orientation or professional life.If they conduct their lives with dignity and respect for everybody else's life,I honor their beliefs,listen to their theories and outlooks and even try to incorporate the ones that make sense into my own belief systems.
Moreover,I do not buy into the idea of sin,either.Each one of us has their innate,infallible values system than warns us and guides us away from causing harm to others or ourselves.Having said all that,although I do not believe in organised religion,my own soul tells me again and again that there is God,not just impersonal or a certain power permeating everything,(though God IS that,too,obviously),but with a personal aspect as well.I tried many times to refute the idea,but my soul keeps quietly and relentlessly telling me that God does exist.How can I argue with my soul?So I do believe in God,whom I sometimes feel so close that he/she/it/they/we/you/I keeps whispering to me and filling my existence with so much love that I simply cannot deny that existence
I believe in God incarnating as Christ sometime in history to feel the experience of being one of us in every respect and give us a few hints along the way.I believe Christ redeemed every fucking living soul on the face of this or any other existing planet that ever lived or will ever live,and in doing so we are all saved no matter how we're gonna live our lives here.I believe that noone needs to be saved,because we are forever saved,even if we take the wrong turns and destroy ours and other people's lives.I believe we are all Gods in apprenticeship,waiting for the true glory to come once we get rid of the limitations of the physical world when we die.I believe there is no eternal damnation,no stupid notion of hell,just eternal bliss and total and complete communion with God for ever
Love ,peace and real communion with God
Eirini
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Woman, I love your style, and your passion, and your idea of God is a groovy one, and your introspection and your self honesty! I can't help but read your posts when I catch them, and they always leave an imprint on me. You rock!!
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