Relationship - "a state involving MUTUAL dealings between people or parties or countries"
Religious people are always talking about their relationship with God. Religious leaders are always preaching about how to improve your relationship with God. Endless seminars and tapes and books are written on the subject.
Funny thing is...relationship implies a mutuality. I would love to claim that Penelope Cruz is my girlfriend and we have a relationship, except for one little problem...theres no mutuality. In fact, if I take it too far, and tell everyone that we have a relationship...maybe mix in some stalking, I could find myself in the looney bin. So why do we not look at religious people who claim to have a relationship with a non-existant personal God with the same increduelity as we would a Hollywood stalker?
Wheres the mutuality between you and God?
"Well he talks to me in certain cryptic encoded ways."
"Yea, so does Peneolpe".
2007-06-25 19:18:28 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Fido got his name from fidelity. My dog rocks!
Actually my dog, Copper aka Mr. Frosty Eyebrows and I, are snacking on Chinese food as we entertain ourselves on Yahoo answers. He explains some of the humor to me.
2007-06-25 19:23:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The problem is modern religious organizations depict god as an individual. We project our individual ego onto "God" -- the force that created the universe. We give him a name and a gender. Package it up and sell it. Pretend to know Gods motivation. Even the old relgious texts dont do this; they used a word to describe God as more of an entity than an individual, ...lost in translation. Our inate desire to be part of a higher purpose suckers us in so that we feel like we belong to something without fully knowing the true purpose of joining.
Sure joining a church is better than joining a gang. But will it really connect everyone with their higher purpose, the higher order of the universe that we cant see past our own ego.
I can have a relationship with Fido. But I can't learn my own purpose in the higher order of the universe by reading a book someone else wrote about his own "higher purpose" or "relationship with god"
2007-06-26 02:41:00 · answer #2 · answered by ☺☻☺☻☺☻ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How do know that God is not in the dog that is licking your face?
Most First Americans believe that Creator made everything and that Creator is "IN" everything. I think it is a lesson that dominant society is just beginning to learn.
When you realize that you are NOT over and above the world, but a part of it, you will truly find God. JMHO.
2007-06-26 02:27:53 · answer #3 · answered by tsalagi_star 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, I never doubt my dogs existence, so that does add some authenticity.
2007-06-26 02:27:46 · answer #4 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
God doesn't lick my face when I am sad. Dog does.
2007-06-26 02:21:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Sometimes people can be so analytical it makes them sound stupid.
2007-06-26 02:24:15 · answer #6 · answered by CDS2012 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋