Can there be New Ways of Understanding and Practicing Ancient Religious Teachings?

[The Magic Pudding.]

Well new and inspiring hats of course.

Bloke out the front, acting as the conduit of god, telling the congregation what he says god says they should be doing.

Flip it.

Congregation telling god's  conduit to tell god how he's fucking up, don 't make the tasty food dangerous, don't make the healthy food fucking lettuce...

[Leonardo17]

- Nothing that can be directly observed or measured by the naked eye or any instrument that we know of or even mathematically calculated either (as I said before)
 
   These are more like subtle forces that (we believe) are having very real effects on our lives here and now. Like denial of reason, practical intelligence, logical approaches in the name of our self-hatred that is pretending to be our self-love or instinct of self-preservation. In other words our fear based self or Ego.

That's why religious people need churches/ temples, just like UFO people need UFO books. Religious people go to the church/ temple and pretend that god is real, that he exists, so when people ask them for evidence that god exists, they are out of words, they're like "Well, it's not that simple," and just talk deluded nonsense. I hear the same from people in the UFO religion - they spend hours every week reading UFO books (or websites) where people act like aliens are real, and when you ask them to provide evidence that aliens are visiting Earth, they give the same excuse "Well, it's not that simple." And that's why you write these nonsensical posts.

Their issue is more like: “There is intelligent life outside of this planet” or “There isn’t any intelligent life outside of this planet”.
 
My issue goes deeper than that. It provides answers to things like “Why are these guy so damn stupid” and “What can I do to not be like them?”
 
/ There is nothing in Humanities that explains that type of stupidity.
 
In fact, there are many atheists who also happen to believe in some sort of similar inner-work or inner-journey. The philosopher Plato describes “The little Human” in us, that has to learn to tame the “Inner Lion in us” in order to go and defeat “The Hydra in us”.
 
So I am saying that true spirituality has to do with these universal themes more than any set of dogmas added to a number of rituals.
 
/ I believe in occult practices but what I am described is unrelated to that. That’s a whole different universe (and I don’t know a lot about that)

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

You’re not suggesting that Plato was an atheist, are you?

Boru

[The Grand Nudger]

Has it ever occurred to you Leo, that you actually created this thread because you don't want to understand ancient religious teachings in a new way? That you would prefer to continue to understand them in the old way, as endowing some greater underlying truth, despite their profligate inadequacy and inaccuracy.

[Leonardo17]

[The Grand Nudger]

Have you ever felt like you are like a complete alien in this planet?

No.

That’s because we are complete aliens on this planet.

False, and...frankly...silly.  We're certainly natives.

And therefore there is this need in us (at least in some of us) that needs to be fulfilled. And that’s the new approach I am talking about.

You know what happens when you base a "therefore" on something false and silly, right?

[Leonardo17]

[The Grand Nudger]

Islam is a medeival blend of typical fascism. That's why it doesn't surprise me when islamists do typical fascist shit.

[Ahriman]

Islam isn't the most progressive ideology, but I still think it would be interesting if there were some kind of "update" for it, although I would not want it to go the same way as mainstream Christianity.

[Belacqua]