• RedMari@reddthat.com
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    3 days ago

    It’s possible to believe in monotheist religion and scripture without supporting the centralized oppressive organization that exploits them.

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        2 days ago

        Have fun with the close minded elementary understanding

        A Sufi Hymn to Awareness

        Neither subject nor object, neither seer nor seen Awareness is a flame which glows into itself

        For those who have the eyes, for those who wish to see It opens its heart and shows into itself

        Neither here nor there, its home is nowhere Like a wind it blows and blows into itself

        Beginning with a drop in each moment of Creation It soon becomes a river that flows into itself

        From where does it come and to where does it go? Like a breath it comes and goes into itself

        To nothing does it submit, 'cause nothing’s other than it To itself it bows, as it bows to itself

        • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
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          2 days ago

          How is you choosing to be selective and handpicking what you want to believe out of the vast and contradictory texts any different than those you criticize for doing the same with the materials for other reasons?

          You’re maintaining the same core as those who use religion as an excuse for violence. You can’t be a part of it without being a part of it. Your imaginary friend is the exact same one as theirs.

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        2 days ago

        Sorry forgot you are the ultimate arbiter of truth and that I don’t exist.

        A Sufi Hymn to Awareness

        Neither subject nor object, neither seer nor seen Awareness is a flame which glows into itself

        For those who have the eyes, for those who wish to see It opens its heart and shows into itself

        Neither here nor there, its home is nowhere Like a wind it blows and blows into itself

        Beginning with a drop in each moment of Creation It soon becomes a river that flows into itself

        From where does it come and to where does it go? Like a breath it comes and goes into itself

        To nothing does it submit, 'cause nothing’s other than it To itself it bows, as it bows to itself

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          2 days ago

          Your belief in the organization legitimizes dangerous and corrosive beliefs. It legitimizes the power structure that oppresses. It legitimizes the act of turning off your brain. Your adherence to its rules legitimizes even it’s more rabid and extreme flanks.

          You cannot participate in organized religion without harming society.

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            2 days ago

            Reread, I’m against the organization, not the personal connection to the faith in and connection with God directly.

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              2 days ago

              Is it the god of an organized religion? Do you call yourself a believer in that religion even if you don’t “support” it?

              Which God? There are thousands. Judeo Christian God? Yeah you support the degradation of society. Doesn’t matter which denomination. You want to tell me how you can have a personal connection with someone else’s hallucination?