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Originally Posted by The Dark Wolf
^ To Gilbucci.  In fact, I'd go so far as to say that any serious pursuit of developing that relationship USING religious channels can in fact be detrimental to it.
Religion, in spite of some of its benefits, is almost always exclusionary and limiting. How can anyone, let alone human beings, apply that kind of dogmatic thinking to something and someone as... transcendent as God?
It so often ends up being divisive and the root of all kinds of conflict.  |
Nailed it, man, once again.
I know quite a few people that firmly stand by whatever the bible says, and while they think it's completely normal, from my point of view it seems pretty much insane. It is extremely limiting, like you said, and really gives you no room to do much of anything. While I believe in trying to be the best overall person you can be, I do NOT believe in trying to be the 'perfect' human being, because that doesn't exist.