We like to believe we know how the world works. We want to
understand and control everything we can, including religious
matters. And we want to be right.
But who's right? Religions directly contradict each other.
There's no way they can all be 100% correct. So how do we learn
what is right and what is not? And why do religions hold things
that aren't true in them?
Faith comes from contact with the Divine. Religion, however, is
when that contact is codified and rituals created for people to
find that same contact. The contacts themselves are True. But
everything we create around that contact is just as flawed as all
other human institutions. We place our own preconceptions, our
own desires and flaws inside the religion. Over time, some people
come to see the preconceptions and other human flaws as the
religion and ignore the actual faith aspects, causing schisms and
broken faiths.
We need to accept that we aren't capable of truly comprehending
the Divine. We don't have a box big enough to shove a person in
completely, much less a god or all of creation. The more we try
to hold all the answers in our hands, the more we're left with
smoke and straw. What we can hold is infinitely smaller than what
exists, and even what we can hold is larger than what we can
express. Humanity as a whole constantly tries to expand its
knowledge as to the functioning of the Universe. No religious box
can be smaller than our scientific knowledge. Everything that
exists needs to be acceptable to religion. The parts that do not
match are not Truths, but human preconceptions and flaws that we
create to make the world a little smaller and a little easier to
hold.
We need to accept that we cannot be 100% correct in how we think
the world works. The more we try to hold and shrink it, the more
it slips through our grasp.
Questions:
* How do you try to hold the world smaller? How does that limit
you?
* Do you see a conflict between science and religion? Reality
and religion? How do you resolve these conflicts?
* Do you see faith as something that needs to be constrained or
set free? Do you have the faith to let the Universe be what
it is, instead of what you want it to be?
If you cant explain it simply, you dont understand it well enough.-- Albert Einstein
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