My religion stances
I accept Immanuel (Jesus) as my Lord & savior.
As for me and my house, we shall serve the lord - Joshua 24:15
I have complex and personal spiritual beliefs
I am Spiritual but not religious (SBNR) exploraseeker
I believe Religion and Science can be merged in a unique way, see here for more
I support Religious Heredoxy
My brand of SBNR is inspired by Sam Harris SBNR (Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion) , CathSemblies of Fundie Lite exploraseekerism
I support Ghandi type Christianity (I like your Christ not your Christians Your Christians are so unlike your Christ similar to C.S Lewis Christianity), Antony Flew Xtian Deism, Stirnerism Christian intersection, Marxism as a JudeoChristian religion adjacent
We cannot prove using human methods that there is or isn’t a higher power. After realizing this truth, then adopt Sam Harris’s SBNR philosophy (like he outlined in Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion). PLZ, it is for your own good
Jesus was not a revolutionary, but he was instead an insurrectionist, a rebel. To quote Max Stirner,
“The time [in which Jesus lived] was politically so agitated that, as is said in the gospels, people thought they could not accuse the founder of Christianity more successfully than if they arraigned him for 'political intrigue', and yet the same gospels report that he was precisely the one who took the least part in these political doings.
But why was he not a revolutionary, not a demagogue, as the Jews would gladly have seen him? [...] Because he expected no salvation from a change of conditions, and this whole business was indifferent to him.
He was not a revolutionary, like Caesar, but an insurgent: not a state-overturner, but one who straightened himself up. [...] [Jesus] was not carrying on any liberal or political fight against the established authorities, but wanted to walk his own way, untroubled about, and undisturbed by, these authorities. [...]
But, even though not a ringleader of popular mutiny, not a demagogue or revolutionary, he (and every one of the ancient Christians) was so much the more an insurgent who lifted himself above everything that seemed so sublime to the government and its opponents, and absolved himself from everything that they remained bound to [...]; precisely because he put from him the upsetting of the established, he was its deadly enemy and real annihilator[.]"
I am against idolatry
I support religious freedom
“My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.” Ghandi
“I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Religion .” C.S Lewis
Forgiveness is a virtue. We should always forgive since we all makes mistakes and we would want forgiveness for ourselves . “ The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”, “ Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love”, “ Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.” Ghandi
I support cultural variation as in religious dealigning (rejectionism adjacent)
I believe in Reincarnation and I had a past life where I lived from the early mid 1970s to 1982
I support politicians working with religious institutions when possible as long as it is done in a uplifting way
But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life.”
“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.” C.S. Lewis
We all have through our conscious the given free choice that holds us morally and spiritually accountable for what we choose.
It is imperative all people who are on a low spiritual plane, who have a bourgeois vice , who are spiritually confused, or have negative energy be dealt with in a way that doesn't dehumanize them
I hope and pray for all people who are spiritually confused, living on a low spiritual plane ,living with negative energy ,have a bourgeois vice are open to, if it is their heart, conscious and spirit will/nature’s will etc to stop being that way and to transition back to being positive in conscious, heart and spirit
If they asked me if they should do that, I would tell them if they want to be absolved of any perceived negative issues with themselves they should be negative no more and seek advice what to do next from the spirit , conscious, and their energy/vibes-bio rhythms
The methods of persecution change but its the same evil blowback for using religion to make our world a better place remains. Anti religious bigotry like all bigotry is wrong and needs to end.
From a theological perspective and outlook and based on my SBNR exploraseeker CathSemblies of Fundie Lite exploraseekerism perspective,
From a Michael Glatze fusionary Cornel West Leftist Xtian perspective
We can be loving, compassionate yet speak and hold to the self evident truth that all hangups (like being a capitalist, engaging in non consensual sexual acts etc) are immoral and we SHOULD tell all such people who fall pray to such immorality and condemnable acts to sin more just like Jesus said to Mary Magdelene
All people who have negative energy, a bourgeois vice, who are on a lower spiritual plane or who are spiritually confused have a social disease called and they need to let the spirit, positive energy, love that shoots from the conscious cleanse them of these imperfections, and also help motivate others to do the same.
“Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.” C.S. Lewis
I support sexual abstinence and I am against infidelity but not for religious reasons but Christians supporting sex before or outside of marriage is a sin since the bible says so (even though the bible is right on abstinence and infidelity they are so for the wrong reasons)
Though since I am an Anarchist I don't think the state should enforce absistence laws and I really have better things to do than to lecture youngsters on saving themselves for marriage.
When we hopefully usher in a left wing, Marxist-Left Anarchist/Mutalist society with free love and decentralized free association/collectivism then I will somewhat tolerate sex before marriage even if I have to self medicate with Mushrooms and percets to force myself too.
But I will never extend that courtesy to infedelity even in such a society, in such a society my views on infedelity would be too complex for humans to grasp)
Of course I will probably die before we usher in such a utopia so its all moot
Social
Imagine how great Christianity would be if it was pro LGBTQ+ from the start? That is my type of revisionist Christianity
I like the LDS supporting same sex marriage and I like this quote by them: “As we work together to preserve the principles and practices of religious freedom together with the rights of LGBTQ individuals, much can be accomplished to heal relationships and foster greater understanding.” That seems like a good compromise. Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, give to God what is God’s Filter this through my other complex and personal spiritual beliefs (from a Michael Glatze fusionary Cornel West Leftist Xtian perspective)
I guess I am down with religious organizations and nonprofits not being required to provide services or goods for marriage ceremonies (for Libertarian reasons and because I an against religious discrimination). When we destroy the hetereosexual patriarchy and get the government out of the marriage business religious organizations and non profits will naturally (and in a non woke way) being able to accept same sex marriages and people being Queer Filter this through my other complex and personal spiritual beliefs (from a Michael Glatze fusionary Cornel West Leftist Xtian perspective)
I acknowledge that some Right Wing Christians see marriage as a religious institution and not a government responsibility. However, tax implications are another story and if two people are “married” , then the federal government should not be regulating what Right Wing Christians see as ‘morality’ Filter this through my other complex and personal spiritual beliefs (from a Michael Glatze fusionary Cornel West Leftist Xtian perspective)
I am very very fine with Christians sharing the gospel with non Christians of all religions and irreligions to win them to Christ (like Kirk Cameron does). The bible clearly teaches Christians to do so and there is nothing wrong with doing that. I never do so but I respect religious freedom including the freedom to share the gospel .Like Congresswoman Ihlan Omar, I say this because this is what religious freedom is all about
There is hypocrisy with forcing religion into hiding but allowing non religion philosophy to be out in the open
Are kids who aren’t religious really better off being inspired by drag queens, recycled superhero movies, comic books that have jumped the shark billions of times, Star Wars , and terrible role models like Sam Smith, Lil Nas X, Taylor Swift, Donald Trump, Katy Perry, street gangs, drugs etc
I was and still am ok with the Year of the bible in 1983 stunt by former President Ronald Reagan (when I was a little kid). This is because Reagan balanced that out here Filter this through my other complex and personal spiritual beliefs
I am against the Republican party becoming a Christian organization. As Barry Goldwater said “ If that ever happens, kiss politics goodbye.”
A significant part of the Christian right lobby are agents of intolerance
Our founding fathers were not Christian evangelicals. They were diverse in their religious views like how our country should be now
The Republicans merging with Christianity is a horrible move. Whatever happened to “giving to Caesar’s what is Caesar’s and giving to God what is God’s?”. This article echos my views maybe a smidge.
I echo what Ayn Rand said and especially apply it to our modern Republican party
From.Open Culture Asked what she thought of then President Ronald Reagan, Ayn Rand replied, “I don’t think of him. And the more I see, the less I think of him.”
For Rand, “the appalling part of his administration was his connection with the so-called ‘Moral Majority’ and sundry other TV religionists, who are struggling, apparently with his approval, to take us back to the Middle Ages via the unconstitutional union of religion and politics.” Rand’s primary concern, it seems, is that this “unconstitutional union” represented a “threat to capitalism (for me, that “unconstitutional union“ is a threat to the US implementing Super [Left Wing] Collective Capitalism, Third Way Social Democracy, the Nordic Model, Libertarian Socialism including free market Democratic Socialism, Mutualism/Left Wing Free market Anarchism, the economic systems that China is currently using) .”
While she admired Reagan’s appeal to an “inspirational element” in American politics, “he will not find it,” remarked Rand, “in the God, family, tradition swamp.”
Instead, she proclaims, we should be inspired by “the most typical American group… the businessmen/business woman (for me it is this type of working persons that should be the Uniparty inspiration)
“God will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist’s shop.” C.S Lewis
“Christian” Republicans spew pure hatred at times or more than they are willing to admit
What the Gospel teaches is vastly different from how many if not most "Christian" right of Center right Republicans talk and act. It is hard to be surrounded by such hypocrites. Those hypocritical “Christian” Republicans should instead be as kind, compassionate and Christ like as Stacy Abrams who herself is a Christian, but a gooder one
Of course this cuts the other way as I mention in this post here
More religious dogma from me here
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