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Nothing has ever emerged
spontaneously in human culture from a vacuum.
A religion never suddenly appears
to be accepted large number of people.
All religions start from an older
religion which is transformed in an
attempt to better fit the current conceptual
understanding of the collective.
The
Hebrew religion was built upon
the beliefs of the Egyptian Pharaoh
Akhenaten as well as myths of
Sumerians,
Babylonians and
Canaanites.
Christianity was built by a synthesis
of local religions and Mystery schools.
Islam is built upon the Christian and
Hebrew religions and Arabic tradition.
Vedic Sanskrit, a
classical language of India,
is the liturgical language of Hinduism,
Buddhism,
Sikhism, and
Jainism.
An
example of a modern religion that has
transfigured Christianity to fit
Septuagint precepts is
Mormonism.
A new testament appeared, the book of
Mormon - a rewritten New and Old
Testament, and monogamist Christians
were converted into polygamists.
To
Catholic,
Protestant and
Rastafari the book of Mormon
appears as a fictional account of the Adventures of Jesus, the
Holy Spirit and
the
Father.
To Mormons the book of Mormon is the 'Word of God' written down by
Joseph Smith when possessed by
what he identified as the Holy Spirit.
The individuals that first
accepted Mormonism were nominally monogamist Christians before they became
converted gung-ho Mormon polygamists.
Abrahamic religions,
narrative religions, are "book" based religions.
A religion
founded upon a mixture of Christian and
Hebrew literature is the
Elchasaites based upon the book of Elchasai.
This literature gave rise
to cenobitic monasticism precipitated by the Desert Fathers - hermits,
ascetics and monks - who lived
mainly in the Scetes desert of Egypt, around the third century.
Concepts espoused within cenobitic monasticism eventually give rise to
the Discalced Carmelites founded on the writings of
Teresa Sanchez de Cepeda y
Ahumada (St. Teresa of Ávila) and
Juan de Yepes Alvarez (St.
John of the Cross) in 1593.
325 Anno
Domini
Although Christianity has two main branches they both use
basically the same testament that was decided upon by the
Council of Nicaea.
Protestants take the early Christian writings the Catholics claim are
not heretical and accept
them wholeheartedly without a second thought.
Protestants never stop to
ask the question of whether the 66 books contained in the
Bible tell the whole story
or whether they have been edited,
corrected, redacted, combined, added to, re-edited,
re-corrected.
The difference between main stream religion and
"cults" is basically the degree of acceptance by the culture in which the
religion exists.
All aforementioned religions have come from already
existing popularly
accepted religion and that is why they have
large numbers of
adherents.
Religious
"cults" that are not based upon existing religious traditions typically do not
survive through more than one or two generations.
Religious "cults"
based upon existing religious traditions that pratice celibacy, like the
Shakers, do not survive
through generations either.
Joseph Smith chose sex over celibacy and
populated a desert.
"History's moral
tragedies were often
accompanied by clergy who were timidly and quietly complicit with
the destructive government
policies.
Reasonable people differ on
how to identify and solve
today's moral issues.
It is unreasonable to claim that Jesus and
the other prophets do
not have something to say about a
doomed, unjust, immoral war; state sanctioned torture;
international silence
in the face of genocide and
state sanctioned
murder through the death penalty."- Ed Bacon, Rector, All Saints
Episcopal
"We should examine faith
constantly in the sweet light of human reason rather than believing, as the
White Queen said to Alice, "six
impossible things before breakfast."
Faith is only an approximation, like
memory;
I am never sure I have the real thing in my grasp.
If I could, I'd
return to early Christianity, before it became a state religion under
Constantine;
before
its connection to the state, when it was a
company of friends whose inspired leader once said that
the one without sin should pick
up the first stone." - Nora Gallagher
 
"The
natural world is a Mirror of
God.
By looking in this
Mirror we can see God; we
can see some of the creative
archetypes, all are in the Creator.
The
journey of the
Eternal Soul to the
Creator begins by looking in a
gnostic way into the Mirror of Nature, and then
proceeds by turning inward to recognize the
Eternity of our Soul, and then
upward into the Creator.
To prove the existence of the
Creator, we do not have to finish the
ascent;
a complete proof is available at
every level, even the lowest."
Giovanni di Fidanza, Saint
Bonaventure
"I doubt Jesus would support the
violent invasions of
sovereign nations;
the arrest, torture and
imprisonment of innocent people;
tax cuts favoring the
wealthiest;
the largest debt in America's history;
not supporting the
military with proper equipment;
cutting veterans' benefits;
higher costs for education, healthcare and housing;
environmental pollution,
bribery, greed and
corruption?" - Greg Garcia |
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