Business of religion or the art of spirituality, where do you make your stand?

Question

Or where are you at home at?

Answer 1

A businessman can sell Moon, sun and all stars !!
A businessman can sell God, virtues and heavens!
money purchases Love and love brings money.

What they can not sell, and what no one can purchase is
The Bliss !!

real spirituality is the bliss O Coyote


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pip-pip, catch me if you can

Answer 2

I guess The Dalai Lama never heard of philosophy. Religion inspires spirituality. Reading religious books as totally literal is a modern flaw. Historically holy texts were recognized to contain many elements of literature including songs, poetry, symbolism, literal accounts, and so on. They were preached as such and many people then and now have very personal relationships that are guided by the texts. Spirituality without guidance is nothing more than being over emotional. All the feelings that come with spirituality are emotional based and if you are just going through life trying to find the things that give you a warm fuzzy feeling then you are going to run in circles and get no where. Feelings are subjective and thus so are all conclusions that come from them.

Answer 3

Is it really an either or question? Nothing is totally bad or totally good. The terms 'business of religion" and "art of spirituality" can be interpreted many ways. One is not superior to the other.
wto the where are I as home at ...I are in IOWA
Idiots Out Walking Around...it is a bad bad song...

Answer 4

Well I have been Buddhist for 7 months, but I'm not 100% sure that it's my ONLY religion. Over the last 2 or 3 months, I have seen so many avenues of belief that I can relate to, I think I might be multi-religious, if there's such a thing.

And then there's spirituality too. I've had far too many things happen to me (since I opened my mind) that can be considered supernatural in some way, that I'd be a fool not to believe I have some sort of gift.

In other words, I've got my finger in so many pies, it's difficult to answer your question in a totally honest way. Let's just say I respect all people and their beliefs.

Answer 5

Ones relationship with God is an individual thing. A business always involves a number of intermediaries, the manufacturer, purchaser, distributor and wholesale. Art is an intrinsic expression as is spirituality. Business in what ever form is a very deliberately managed form of human organisation. The church is a business and often lacks spirituality, an intrinsic sense of God and spirit.

Answer 6

The art of spirituality, without question. I have said this so many times, but it is so very true: religion is tradition; spirituality is between individual and God. I am a Christian-based Fusionist, who practices no set religion, but walks a spiritual path with every breath I breathe, every tooth I brush, every tear I cry, every thought I think and every feeling I experience.

My home is within the Oneness of Us All, within the Tao, where I always dare to be different.

Answer 7

hmmm, I would have to say that I am a spiritual being experiencing a relationship with a Spiritual God, but spirituality was made into an art by man just as a spiritual relationship with God was made into a religion by man as well.....so my home is in God the Father through Jesus Christ my Lord.

Answer 8

"Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves..." --Matthew 7:15

Undoubtedly, RELIGION has become the all-time, ultimate, unchallenged, non-taxable BIG BUSINESS that it is today --as it was prophesied thousands of years ago-- as GREEDY church leaders and pastors have donned their weekly white garments to preach to UNSUSPECTING FOLLOWERS seeking some spiritual guidance.

From their pulpits and straight to your living rooms via television today, brimstone-and-fire breathing preachers and con artists ALIKE start to get into your pockets and they begin to line theirs. Many use and tweak scriptural texts, say, in the guise of establishing TITHES, to have a perpetual and continuous CASH FLOW into their Church's tills and coffers.

Other larger organizations have well-established networks of profit centers now resulting from manufactured merchandise as in books and publications, souvenirs, memorabilia, relics, tours, seminars, kerchiefs, and what-have-you marketable products that are peddled in every which way.

And the very largest Churches have already invested heavily into real estate and buildings all over the world.

These are all GREEDY and RAVENOUS WOLVES who have forgotten to FREELY GIVE what they have FREELY RECEIVED... as it is written.

Needless to say, all their BLIND FOLLOWERS should begin to OPEN THEIR EYES wider, and begin to question and BE WARY of their Church's leadership, their false teachings, and their goings-on.

Does a Church/leader really need Armani suits, or a fleet of limos parked in an estate house, or a helicopter, or a plane, or thousands of acreage and properties, or an observatory, or a television channel, or ...????

Peace be with you.

Answer 9

Somewhere in between.

I think religion is in the business of putting itself out of business. When we all realize that we're the mystical body of Christ on Earth, then religion will be over.

Not church, mind you: church is another term for the mystical body of Christ on Earth.

Spirituality is the ground that runs under religion, church, and denomination.

Answer 10

Hyporhethetitorical Chaotic Orchestration!

Wow, I have one hell of a twisted imagination... Almost gave me a mind aneurysm! Then again, that could have just been a fleeting thought!

I'm in a "stick your tongue out at the coyote" mood today... =P

Remember: chameleon's have incredibly long tongues (sometimes longer than their own body length) which they are capable of rapidly and abruptly extending out of the mouth! hehe