~ Religion is judgmental, elitist, divisive, and self-centered.
~ If there is something larger than ourselves it must transcend all cultures.
~ Religion is an addiction to feeling good.
~ If I had been born in Iraq of a Muslim family my faith would be Islamic.
~ Religions are invented by people who need them. Others don't need them.
~ The gods are created in the images of their creators.
~ Religion is a hindrance to Ultimate Mystery.
~ Everyone is a heretic according to someone else.
~ Religion can't fulfill our need for self-actualization.
Sunday, October 15, 2006
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3 comments:
Hello Clarice: The thought about people creating religions because they need them--according to Bernard Lonergan, that need is rooted in our prior given quest for the mysterious and the ultimate. So that, even if we say NO to that question of ultimate concern, we still "need" to ask it--it's a part of how humans are made.
On the other hand, religions as historical instances of doctrines, systems, and institutionalized "churches," are often vastly different expressions of how that same prior quest becomes manifest.
What is transcultural, then, is the human quest for religious meaning, and not "religion," if the writer means by "religion," a concrete institution where a group of human beings come to worship or otherwise come under the umbrella of similar community expressions of faith, doctrine, and practice.
Even the agnostic asks the question, and recognizes that others ask the same question but in many different ways; but then decides to take no position on the matter?
Thanks, I agree! Except, why name the transcultural quest one for "religious" meaning? Why not just "meaning?"
Or "ultimate" meaning.
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