(December 21, 2018 at 1:56 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(December 21, 2018 at 1:50 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote: Practice makes perfect.
"Practicing a profession" does not mean "trying to do it well".
I never claimed all musicians, doctors, sports stars, lawyers always get it right.
I am merely arguing usage of the word in the context of religion.
Certainly there are crappy doctors, crappy lawyers, crappy sports stars. You can practice music and still suck at it sure.
But with religion, you are only following, not practicing.
I think Buddhist monks and all kinds of other religious people have a standard, and they attempt to move closer to the standard.
They practice religion in the same sense that professionals practice, AS WELL as attempting to live up to an ideal they have in their own heads.
Are baseball pitchers "following" when they try to get better ?
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
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