Do you believe many indigenous peoples (native African tribes, various and central south american amerindian/indigenous, aborigines and native americans) who still practice their spiritual beliefs are closer to God without any doctrine?
2007-12-14 08:25:44 · 12 answers · asked by Dusk 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
yes because they respect and love each other and nature. they believe all things are connected. no human is better than another, and no human is better than an animal. they have respect and love for animals, plants, and insects. they didn't believe in land ownership, or murder without just cause. all of the stuff europeans brought into the world, diseases, modern technologies, cars, factories, etc. all put toxins in the air. toxins in one's minds and bodies.
i do believe they are closer to the great spirit. because they often don't have a religion to put people down. like so many christ-like religions do.
2007-12-14 10:27:23 · answer #1 · answered by crystal spring 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
this may be the main confusted question i've got fielded in months. "All people who accompanied such spirituality have been compelled into being christians via spanish conquistadores who destroyed and pillaged the aztecs and incans" -- the only reference i've got in many instances discovered to a heaven on earth, is the Reducciones of the Jesuits in South u.s., which grew to become into adversarial and ultimately stopped via people who hated the Jesuits and the Church. So this you have precisely incorrect. " gypsies, pagans, homosexuals" -- Hmmm, why did you place homosexuals in with gypsies ? ought to or no longer it somewhat is which you particularly prefer to confuse what human beings do with what human beings are. I only undeniable caught you there. Homosexuals are no longer via being so, incorrect. maximum appropriate. however the act is an abomination in Scripture. Did you advise to assert that individuals could desire to have the skill to do something they choose. And pointing out loose will is only decieving even if if it is not to be exercised and we can do even if we choose, perverse or no longer. "And God is all solid no?" sure, he's. And he defines solid. furnish a minimum of that. If particularly all of us conformed to what God needed, He would not have had to point out what grew to become into sin. C'mon. you could no longer re-define God for the sake of an argument meant to diss Him. Hmmmm.
2016-11-27 00:06:49 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what you mean by "closer to God".
Many primitive cultures are typically more spiritual and therefore their God plays a bigger part in their lives.
2007-12-14 08:33:37 · answer #3 · answered by Billy! 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They have doctrine just like everybody else.
And some of them may be closer, some of them may not. Some of them abandon their children in the woods when their bottom teeth grow in before their top teeth.
2007-12-14 08:29:02 · answer #4 · answered by NONAME 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That just seems like the noble savage myth to me-do coloured folks have good rhythm too?
2007-12-14 08:39:33 · answer #5 · answered by michinoku2001 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that worshiping deities and embracing superstition separates us from the Creator so my answer is no.
2007-12-14 08:36:20 · answer #6 · answered by Equinoxical ™ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, but they're closer to the truth.
2007-12-14 08:35:23 · answer #7 · answered by Shawn B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Closer to who?
2007-12-14 08:28:41 · answer #8 · answered by ibushido 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
One can be as close to God as they choose to be.
2007-12-14 08:33:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, how can they be if they've never read the bible?!
Just kidding. No one can be "closest" to something that doesn't exist.
2007-12-14 08:29:28 · answer #10 · answered by rbc_commish 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋