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Topic: Why are people so desperate?
Krimsa Joined Fri 04/25/08 Posts: 9960	Thu 01/29/09 02:19 PM
How funny. I once explored Catholicism and found it to be outlandish. Amazing how people can have such differing world views. I’m also female and I was unhappy with the misogynist presence embedded in the Church. That might have swayed my opinion of it. I grew up a Catholic, and found it so outlandish that I abandoned it for Atheism. Then after a tour through the New Age, Buddism, the Occult, etc, I finally found Christianity. I find the Occult to be the most enlightening from a purely spiritualist standpoint. I have explored varying faiths but also teeter on Agnosticism and sometimes Atheism but I just can’t totally cross that bridge yet. Its a work in progress as far as Im concerned.

Bushidobillyclub Joined Fri 05/11/07 Posts: 5689	Thu 01/29/09 03:14 PM
D. A person reached out by faith that Jesus is the Son of God and that God had the power to raise Him from the dead and as a result of that faith God revealed Himself. Except that there is evidence to support the fact that this didn’t happen. If a person wants to cling to faith, they can. I have faith (or hope) that the sun will warm the earth tomorrow. It doesn’t necessarily mean that will occur. Barring some sort of solar destructive event more than likely, it will. Krimsa.....the moment one has FAITH to Believe, is the moment God REVEALS Himself to a Believer. And this happens To EVERY SINGLE BELIEVER. That is WHY BELIEVERS have this UNSHAKEABLE FAITH... That Nothing Can Ever..... or Will EVER Take Away. Because God has REVEALED Himself to Us, is WHY We KNOW GOD IS REAL ... And WHO He SAYS He IS!! This is pretty funny stuff to me, so to have god reveal himself you must become credulous. Just believe regardless of proof and then it will makes sense . . . lol

Abracadabra Joined Thu 04/12/07 Posts: 17851	Thu 01/29/09 03:52 PM
This is pretty funny stuff to me, so to have god reveal himself you must become credulous. Just believe regardless of proof and then it will makes sense . . . lol Actually I'm convinced that this is how spirituality works. It ulimately comes down to the "Power of Belief". The key thing is that all that is needed is a believe in the spirit. Not a believe in a dogma. Christians simply get the dogma and the spirit confused. Even MorningSong tries to recognize that Christianity isn't a 'religion' or a belief in a 'dogma'. She denounces 'Chruchianity'. Her only problem is that she can't move away from the idol worship of Jesus. But her faith is so strong that it works for her. But it would work for her if she had learned to become a witch, or a shaman, or a buddhist, or even an atheists who places their faith in the human spirit. The bottom line is that it doesn't matter what you believe in. All that matters is that you believe. It's the "Power of Belief" that is magickal. It's the "Power of Intent to Manifest", that is magical. It's the "Power of the Imagination" that creates reality. This is why religious sages from many religions have often spoken about the power of childlike innocence. There are tid bits of spiritual truths scattered throughout the Bible, just like they are scattered thoughtout everything that humanity has ever touched. You must have a childlike innocence to know God. The only thing is that Christians drag the dogma into it like a child that won't let go of the security blanket. To truly trust in spirit one must flush the dogma of man down the toilet and freefall into the arms of their eternal spiritual nature. As long as they continue to cling to the dogma then can never really let go to become one with the spirit. Because dogma is idol worship.