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What's the most positive thing that religion offer?
Posted on Aug 29th, 2007
by 
rudyan
rudyan
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for August 29, 2007:
In order to answer this question properly, I have to change it to: What's the most positive thing that religion could offer (but doesn't, in my opinion)? -- A belief in our own truth, our own inherent goodness, our own sacredness. An arrow pointing to each heart, with the words: "Look within. There is the way, the truth, and the life."
Whatever truth comes from a person's heart cannot help but be individual to that person.
But organized religions set themselves up as knowing what's true for all; and the individuals that adhere to them are taught, overtly or covertly, to suppress their own inner knowing in favour of the "one truth." This is where inner wars begins -- we are at odds with ourselves whenever we ignore our inherent truths and adopt another's truth as our own.
Whatever truth comes from a person's heart cannot help but be individual to that person.
But organized religions set themselves up as knowing what's true for all; and the individuals that adhere to them are taught, overtly or covertly, to suppress their own inner knowing in favour of the "one truth." This is where inner wars begins -- we are at odds with ourselves whenever we ignore our inherent truths and adopt another's truth as our own.
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