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discussion about orthodox religion #1
helenazar:
This discussion started on another thread: http://hydrogen.pallasweb.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=links;action=display;num=1089288424;start=25#25 until we realized that we better start a new thread especially for this! So please post your thoughts about orthodox faith/traditions, and maybe religion in general here. :)
bluetoria:
Brilliant! Thanks :) :)
My view is that we needn't BE so divided. Theologians play with words & miss the importance of all that Christianity is meant to be. I do not believe that Jesus founded the Catholic, Orthodox or Protestant Churches - but that He founded (not as a Church) but as a way of life) Christianity. We...going back to Peter & Paul...have caused these divisions. Perhaps if we accepted different cultures have different means of practising their faith, we could realize that basically we are all one. And that 'oneness' seems to me the most important part of it...Jesus' prayer the night before He died, "That they may be one as we are one."
Well, that's what I think anyway (but I'm probably wrong.)
helenazar:
--- Quote ---Brilliant! Thanks :) :)
I do not believe that Jesus founded the Catholic, Orthodox or Protestant Churches - but that He founded... a way of life... We...going back to Peter & Paul...have caused these divisions.
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Yes, exactly! It is all "man-made"! This is why I kind of feel that we shouldn't have organized religion, because although it's very nice in theory, once you have it in place, these divisions are inevitable - it's human nature! This has been proven over and over, unfortunately. It would be so much nicer for everyone if people just worshipped however they wanted to worship (or not at all) and minded their own business. Sorry for putting it that way. :-X
bluetoria:
But at the same time we need to 'belong' - and we (or at least I) need guidance or else we may end up believing all kinds of bizarre things & become arrogant in thinking we are right. We can surely learn from the experiences of the past, too - and in this I think organized religion is necessary...it's just the way it's organized at the moment!
I mean, for example, when I was younger I always thought that what I did was okay & when the Church said it was wrong I assumed the (very arrogantly) that the Church was out-of-date or wrong!
Later, I saw that it was right all the time & I was wrong...but young & foolish!
It's a bit complicated, this, isn't it? I wish it were earlier in the day (it's after midnight here!)
Dashkova:
--- Quote ---But at the same time we need to 'belong' - and we (or at least I) need guidance or else we may end up believing all kinds of bizarre things & become arrogant in thinking we are right. We can surely learn from the experiences of the past, too - and in this I think organized religion is necessary...it's just the way it's organized at the moment!
I mean, for example, when I was younger I always thought that what I did was okay & when the Church said it was wrong I assumed the (very arrogantly) that the Church was out-of-date or wrong!
Later, I saw that it was right all the time & I was wrong...but young & foolish!
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How sad! :-/
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