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Budmannomore
An addiction does not always have to do with feeling good. People can be addicted to being abused. You can also get addicted to helping others too much and allow for your own needs to not be taken care of. You idea of addiction is what you went through and found a way out of. But your idea of what addiction is has gaps in it and so misses the point of what addiction can be. That is why I am saying addiction is when you put a priority on something which makes it so you do not give the needed attention to other aspects of your life. Through you definition religious addiction can be justified by saying 'I am not doing this for me, but for my lord.' By mine, Ia m saying that if it cause you to not be able to keep the other parts of your life running smoothly, then there is a problem. It does go beyond the idea of self pleasure.
posted by
kooka_lives
on August 4, 2004 at 8:17 AM
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much religion is "me and you god" at the expense of others.
true existence is learning to live within existence and within that which is around you. a healthy living is supportive coesistence.
religion should not support selfish adherence at the expense of those that one supposedly loves.
posted by
Xeno-x
on August 4, 2004 at 6:05 AM
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god didn't make religion man did
God the Ultimate Existence, God the Logos, or expression, expresses how to exist.
people who do not understand how to exist fly to all sorts of means to ameliorate the pain of their own existence.
religon is one of them
but if it works for them, who can question or condemn?
posted by
Xeno-x
on August 4, 2004 at 6:02 AM
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I couldn't agree more. You remind me of somebody else I like to read (begins with "w").
posted by
lonebutte
on August 3, 2004 at 8:34 PM
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kooka,
you do such a wonderful job of pointing out the sickness in the body of Christ. The church is made up of humans and has human problems, the biggest one to me is one of mental laziness; wanting to be told what to believe instead of doing the work and spending time with God to find out for yourself. Religious addiction is based, just like all addictions I have encountered, on being addicted to feeling good. If your motive for religious activity is just for your own self-gratification, stop it. Good done for the wrong reason is as bad as doing evil.
posted by
Budmannomore
on August 3, 2004 at 7:40 PM
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