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RE: Demons
November 22, 2009 at 7:55 pm
(This post was last modified: November 22, 2009 at 8:00 pm by fr0d0.)
Ridicule is not a valid reason to dismiss it. I don't agree with you reasons for separating religion and spirituality. Contained in those links, from reputable sources, are descriptions of spirituality as practiced within religions.
(BTW thanks for carrying the quote... it's actually from 'Making friends and influencing people' by Dale Carnegie ...something I just looked into after watching Warren Buffet sing it's praises)
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RE: Demons
November 22, 2009 at 8:02 pm
I'm strictly non religious. So are all the Christians I know. It's all the same subject to me.
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RE: Demons
November 24, 2009 at 6:30 pm
How are you non-religious??? Christianity is a religion... therefore followers of Christianity are religious.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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RE: Demons
November 24, 2009 at 6:42 pm
I guess he means that he does not subscribe to institutionalized religion. But since it's fr0d0 I might be wrong on this one. He does not belong to a particular church or sect.
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RE: Demons
November 24, 2009 at 7:39 pm
It's this definition that Christians hate: "very devoted to a set of beliefs or to duties".
The religious are dutiful rather than truthful. They have rules which if disobeyed mean they fail, rather than being themselves and understanding that they will fail and that's ok. They follow protocol rather than inspiration.
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RE: Demons
November 29, 2009 at 5:24 pm
For the reasons stated above.
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RE: Demons
November 29, 2009 at 5:31 pm
But isn't that one of the other meanings of 'religious'? Why does it have to mean both at once?
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RE: Demons
November 29, 2009 at 5:44 pm
I simply say it how it is - Christians do not align themselves with the term 'religious' for the reasons stated above.
Not related to the prevalent misunderstanding of the term in popular understanding.
