(December 29, 2022 at 3:59 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote:(December 29, 2022 at 2:21 pm)Leonardo17 Wrote: ...
Whether you agree or not to the final result is another issue. But if you are someone who likes these issues I think you should look deeper into religion itself. Usually the meanings are highly spiritual and philosophical. Not superficial and material. One example is that it really doesn’t matter what a man or woman wears in his/her daily life at all. True spirituality focuses on inner work with an emphasis on your understanding of what is spiritual. And people have to know that.
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Taking a religious writing out of context (or even in-context) to justify doing bad things is a problem.
What you haven't addressed is the alleged deeper, highly spiritual and philosophical meanings. Please share some with us, so that our minds can be purified, expanded and enlightened.
Poetic meaning can be found in any place. Ancient religions is one of the worst places, though I don't mind the Tao Te Ching.
Here is something to keep it simple
Prayer of St. Francis
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is Hatred, let me sow Love.
Where there is Injury, Pardon.
Where there is Doubt, Faith.
Where there is Despair, Hope.
Where there is Darkness, Light, and
Where there is Sadness, Joy.
O Divine Master,
Grant that I may not so much
seek to be consoled as to console;
To be understood, as to understand;
To be loved, as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
And it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.