(November 5, 2016 at 2:58 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Go shop for a religion you like. You won't have been the first, there's no shortage, and plenty of them aren't about shame or guilt or suffering. Give neo-pagan reconstructionism a look, if you can stand the smell of patchouli. Maybe flirt with the ba'hai faith? They're all about "service to humanity" and being nice - in their own way. Try a different flavor of your previous beliefs...could't have scraped the bottom of that barrel, not in a hundred lifetimes.
Or maybe, and this is just off the wall, come up with your own? Decide what your own beliefs and ritual structures would be, to help you feel what you desire to feel in relation to the divine?
I think, to aproach divine, you must pay for it painfully alot. And thats why I think religions with a "stick" dominate the world. Only trough fear "service to humanity" ideals are respected. I said I believe in a God, but I also believe that divine is too much to handle for me.
