RE: Lying for God
October 16, 2018 at 5:34 am
(This post was last modified: October 16, 2018 at 5:37 am by WinterHold.)
(October 15, 2018 at 3:17 pm)Astreja Wrote:(October 15, 2018 at 2:07 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote: The best way to make a religion obsolete, and remove its idea and its core is to turn into a set of rituals and "routines", just like the concept of confession in Christianity: do whatever, but confess every Sunday.
I find it disheartening that people think they need to be told how to practise a specific philosophy. I actually spent ten years in a Buddhist sect that had a very specific (and time-intensive) daily ritual. All the ritual did for me was make me feel anxious when I did not perform the prescribed activities, and frustrated by the time expenditure when I did do it.
I don't believe that the ritual itself helps; but rather the "entity" targeted with it.
God is an intelligent entity, according to my belief. With that in mind, the rituals are mere personal acts to fix the faith in the believer's mind.
In other words; the person uses it to strengthen their belief; if the belief itself is weak, the ritual turns into a set of moves like any sport.
Rituals are boring. Probably that's the cause of your negative feelings: you didn't believe in Buddhism strongly; didn't you?
