Posted by Antoine on 1/21/2008, 10:19 pm, in reply to "Christian Faith"
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I have been offered the option of religion to heal my self rejection and anxiety. I tried Christianity but I just cannot feel easy about the whole thing. I think religion in any forms addresses the internal fear in people's mind. I like the idea of love, as it is the core theme of most religions, but cannot accept the parental mode in which people need a single higher power to tell them what to do for every single thing. I adopt the basic concept of love. I know I need to love other people in order to love myself. When I was a child, my father just didn't make me feel loved and valued. I need to do it by loving others to feel myself loved. Love is the central thing in all religions to make people really feel great about God. In fact, their faith makes them love themselves by loving others. I also am learning to gear myself early for the issue of death, again using the concept of love. We fear death because we fear losing our loved ones. But just like my father's death, I am now trying to seek resolution telling myself that after all these years I still feel for him, because I love him. Love is a two-way thing, even between a deceased and a living man. I think my father's love also makes him attached to me like I am attached to him. Love, again, is the core of relationship. If there's real love in our relationships, we do not need to fear death because love will connect us with the people who are still alive. So we do not need religion. We just need love to feel really good about oursleves, others and our life.
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: Greetings and Peace to all who open
: this thread!
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: Well I grew up with my litte sister,
: she is two years younger them me.
: We are now both approaching 50. In
: our college days together she
: followed me somehow around in the
: university and also into military
: service. We were both in the early
: days "Christians." My
: life took me off to Europe and she
: stayed in the states and got
: married. Of course we all know that
: marriage sometimes does not work.
: When it goes bad it can have adverse
: effects on ones personality and
: character. She is still christian
: and as she approaches 50 it is
: amazing how closed minded and
: unaware these people can be. I was
: the one who got her into this
: religion but somehow I was lucky
: enough to work my way through it.
: Now I am really at peace about life,
: myself and the crazy world around
: me.(If "Heaven" is not
: right now where your sitting, where
: will you Look?) But my sister is
: still caught up in it. She has two
: daughters from her x-man and I was
: just wondering if someone
: understands where I coming from and
: could give me advice or a tip on how
: to handle people who are still being
: controlled by their religion. It
: has been said that it is the modern
: Opium of the People. When one
: becomes aware and sees through the
: smoke screen their is no doubt that
: billions are caught up in this and
: it is very, very sad.
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: Tony
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