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Friday, September 23, 2005
Spouting Spirituality, Religious Rambling, Theological Thoughts
Since I've mentioned God a few times, I should probably add, for the curious, that I'm not a "Christian" myself, just what you might call a "fairly spiritual person", who is far from perfect himself but has real values, and that's some of what is driving this blog. I waxed a little "theological" in a previous post, and that's a side of being human that's worth a look every now and then. The reason I don't affiliate with a specific, organized religion is that I personally feel that whatever "God" is, it/he/she is greater and more unfathomable than any codification or understanding created by humans, which I suppose makes me closer to some forms of Buddhism than anything else. One might refer to my ramblings about chaos theory -- as a finite human being, I can barely begin to fathom the physical universe or the workings of the society I live in. How can I fully fathom God, or expect any other human to do it for me? I think many, perhaps all, of the great religious works can point a finger in the right direction, but none is so complete as to preclude learning from the others, and all, if they are not occasionally misleading in themselves, can be misinterpreted and/or used to mislead. Religious wars are the most egregious examples of religion being used to mislead. God didn't create us to all be the same, nor do we need to eliminate conflicting points of view. We're all looking at the same thing, just from different angles. We'll probably get closer to the truth if we take as many angles into account as possible.
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