What do you think of this statement? Are you spiritual or religious? Are you openminded or is ignorance your bliss?
2006-09-07 17:00:13 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
And by hell I don't mean the literal "hell".
2006-09-07 17:05:56 · update #1
This question isn't meant to offend anyone or cause them to get defensive. I'm asking for your personal opinion, this is not a personal attack on anyone's belief's.
2006-09-07 17:12:45 · update #2
Amen!! I agree with this statement. I consider myself spiritual because I am open to change and I feel that my brain can not even come close to comprehending the vast expanse of things beyond our 3 dimensional world. Truly we know nothing. Everything we claim to know is all based on assumptions that we can't even prove. So one may as well be open to the experiance and enjoy the process.
2006-09-07 17:02:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Nowadays people seem to look down too much upon religion.
Religion is essentially the divine school eatablished by the Messengers of the One True God to develop man's physical, mental, spiritual capacities at the same time. If it is not like that, it is not religion.
No unhealthy, ignorant, materialist being can enjoy bliss. True bliss is to make peace with God, with mankind and with nature. If you were not laboriously working in various physical, intellectual and spiritual fields, then what would you mean as blissful fruit?
Please read the Holy Books to get the precise meaning of religion.
2006-09-07 17:25:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hell is a concept adhered to by different religions. Hence only "religious" people experience hell. Spirituality puts emphasis on the individual's freedom to choose -- how one desires to experience a certain situation of a given moment. Each choice being guided by the law of cause and effect. For every choice there is a corresponding effect or consequence. They can either be good or bad, positive or negative, heavenly or hellish.
2006-09-07 17:35:24 · answer #3 · answered by 514,021 points 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was raised in hell. The only time I heard Gods name was in vain.
I was lost, and lived like the devil there is nothing I didn't do. Then I meet a guy and his parents were christian. Their home was peaceful they prayed and went to church. I was saved now I know Christ as my personal savior. I am not religious, I am just a christian, I believe every word of the bible. So I have been there,to HELL Now I have peace because I have Christ. When I was lost everything I did and believed was contrary to gods word. My life was a mess, now I have the instruction book on how to live The Bible.
2006-09-07 19:13:41 · answer #4 · answered by dancinintherain 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a Christian - and you know... it doesn't make sense to me.
I do not see the link between true spirituality and hell other than the suffering perhaps a spiritual person can endure - but it is not a requirement of being spiritual to have suffered greatly.
Religion? I do not care for it. It is man looking for God (usually with man-made rules) and Christianity is God looking for man.
Unless you have opened your heart and mind to God's truth refrain from name calling - like accusations of ignorance . There may be truth you have not embraced.
2006-09-07 17:08:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
A bit like that. Only to those enlightened the hell actually makes sense. It leads to "heaven".
Read the "Concept of Rational Spirituality" on the Dhaxem website, and a new world unfolds before you.
2006-09-09 08:15:42 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I disagree. Spirituality is for those who have already been in hell and still is going because of the continuation of sin in their lives. Religion is for some who don't want to to go to hell but religion is Hell on earth also and God despises religion because it is man made and whatever is created by man and is idolize as man's creation will die and be destroyed with the ones who look to it instead of God and continue to live in sin.
2006-09-07 17:26:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a ring to it. As for the other two questions, I have not chosen a religion yet, and I have been told that I am more spiritual than people with religion. I certainly keep my mind open and in most cases, do not consider ignorance my bliss.
2006-09-07 17:04:34 · answer #8 · answered by ele81946 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I am not both, religious or spiritual. I am a child of God. I am more than openminded and been very blessed. In fatc, it has been running over...
2006-09-07 17:04:20 · answer #9 · answered by emator 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i think its a false statement. many religions like mine, and wicca, and buddhism, dont believe in hell. but we are still deeply religious. AND spiritual. and we are open-minded, and tolerant too.
EDIT
JewishGirl you miss the point....Buddhism's version of what she says is not being enlightened and suffering greatly in you illusions of self. The Jewish equivalent would be spiritual death, a complete absence of a connection to God. Hell is a state of mind.........and it is a bad place to be in your life.
fair enough the wolfskoll... except that what is religion except spirituality plus rules to follow? take away the rules and you have spirituality alone. which means that religious people have been to hell too. in my opinion. you may define religion differently.
2006-09-07 17:03:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋