Comment on YSK: Israel is ethnically cleansing Lebanon
HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 4 days agoBut those do not include organized religions that have holy books written about ancient hallucinations.
Spiritualism is fine (generally) but it can still lead to delusional thinking. As in, verifiably false conclusions.
RedMari@reddthat.com 4 days ago
It’s possible to believe in monotheist religion and scripture without supporting the centralized oppressive organization that exploits them.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s not, though.
RedMari@reddthat.com 3 days ago
Have fun with the close minded elementary understanding
A Sufi Hymn to Awareness
Neither subject nor object, neither seer nor seen Awareness is a flame which glows into itself
For those who have the eyes, for those who wish to see It opens its heart and shows into itself
Neither here nor there, its home is nowhere Like a wind it blows and blows into itself
Beginning with a drop in each moment of Creation It soon becomes a river that flows into itself
From where does it come and to where does it go? Like a breath it comes and goes into itself
To nothing does it submit, 'cause nothing’s other than it To itself it bows, as it bows to itself
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 3 days ago
How is you choosing to be selective and handpicking what you want to believe out of the vast and contradictory texts any different than those you criticize for doing the same with the materials for other reasons?
You’re maintaining the same core as those who use religion as an excuse for violence. You can’t be a part of it without being a part of it. Your imaginary friend is the exact same one as theirs.
HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Incorrect.
RedMari@reddthat.com 3 days ago
Sorry forgot you are the ultimate arbiter of truth and that I don’t exist.
A Sufi Hymn to Awareness
Neither subject nor object, neither seer nor seen Awareness is a flame which glows into itself
For those who have the eyes, for those who wish to see It opens its heart and shows into itself
Neither here nor there, its home is nowhere Like a wind it blows and blows into itself
Beginning with a drop in each moment of Creation It soon becomes a river that flows into itself
From where does it come and to where does it go? Like a breath it comes and goes into itself
To nothing does it submit, 'cause nothing’s other than it To itself it bows, as it bows to itself
HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Your belief in the organization legitimizes dangerous and corrosive beliefs. It legitimizes the power structure that oppresses. It legitimizes the act of turning off your brain. Your adherence to its rules legitimizes even it’s more rabid and extreme flanks.
You cannot participate in organized religion without harming society.