musings on a Sunday morning

[novapsyche]

Someone in challenging_god said this:

"... one of the reason why I am a Christian is due to the fact that I did not create my belief system."

My take: this was uttered by someone happy that one does not have to think for oneself.

The reason I've adopted a syncretic religious system is because I scrapped everything except a few core ethical and faith statements, then let the logical deductions from those statements inform the rest of my belief system. Simply put, I believe that a system based on a firm, clearly identified set of core beliefs is more consistent in the long run.

Comments

[o-m.livejournal.com]

I am strongly convinced that Christianity is the most unpopular religion in Europe and in the United States because of the following reasons: there
1) it had been made too practical and mundane, devoid of the spiritual component
2) it had been made too oriented on masses, like McDonalds and all fast-food, in a way - so unchallenging and vulgar for the thinking minds
3) it had been much simplified by Protestants and deprived of the initial spirit of brotherhood and resulted in becoming a set of boring rules: you do this, you don't do that, you must work hard and praise the Lord
4) it had been made negative and sad, not strengthening - the Catholic aesthetics is so very gloomy overall! - while Christianity is all about simplicity and peace and love for your neighbor.

They make the Christian faith disgusting to everyone who likes thought, in the first place, and in the second place, they make religion adapted to the now-day needs - for them it is not something given from above, something too much from people - what does it have to do with God anyway?

I am happy not to have been born in the United States - I would have never have become a Christian there.

Russia, an Orthodox Christian country initially, is today literally flooded by Protestant preachers of all kinds, with all their faked hysterical miracles, and primitive songs, and books with pictures, and some people, especially those of the older generation, whose spiritual hunger had been amplified by the years of communism when any religion was claimed to be "opiates for the masses" - they "go for it", they eat this mental junk-food, which, I think, is a total of a contradiction with the Russian mentality.

Roman Catholic Control

[freeandclear.livejournal.com]

What we now regard as Christianity was rewritten by the early Roman Catholic Church for the purpose of mass control -- no liberation was wanted or intended. Contrary to what the Church teaches, we can contact the One Power in the Universe directly ... and evolve our own, personal belief system.

[nwmann.livejournal.com]

if your belief system is based on any faith statements wouldn't the end result still be flawed? also curious as to what your faith statements are?

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

Let me get back to you on this. My beliefs have evolved since I began my syncretic system, but the system itself is the same. I'll give this some thought.