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Thanks, Kooka!
Thank you for your gracious reply. I have taught spiritual independence, personal responsibility to each of my children. And it shows! They value lessons from the wise man I consider in the person of Jesus Christ but I attempted to sharpen them as critical thinkers. You are correct; our society does favor those who go with the flow! In cases like Jim Jones, it can be deadly. Your work is authentic; your voice clear. You are the iron which writers like me are looking for.
Raine
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ItsRaine
on July 16, 2005 at 9:01 PM
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Raine
I like the basic premise of you comment. It talks about a much more pure faith than what we see in the world today though. The faith I am talking about is the faith in organized religions and people who obviously are only seeking out power and gain for themselves.
True faith is greatly lost in today's world because people really do not want to figure things out for themselves. They have no faith in themselves and so have even less in the workings of nature and the wonders of the universe, but instead would rather place that faith in the ideas of others who follow outdated stories that are thousands of years old and greatly flawed as any kind of teaching tools.
We could make some remarkable growth if man kind were ever to start having pure faith in themselves and in nature and the universe itself. Such a thing will never happen until we are able to break away from religious teaching and free our minds fully.
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kooka_lives
on July 16, 2005 at 6:55 PM
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FLIGHTPATH
The problems in the middle east reflect the greater problem of religious belief in general and the faith that we can see right here in the USA that is causing more harm than doing good. So far I have not found a religious based faith that did not box the person following it in. Faith in organized religion just seems to have that as a general side effect.
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kooka_lives
on July 16, 2005 at 6:49 PM
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What can faith do?
A wise man said "if you have the faith of a mustard seed, you can say to the mountain to move and it shall be done." The concept of faith is simple but according to that wise man is hidden to some. Complications of faith occur when people seek heavenly things with their intelligence and not with their heart, mind, body and soul. Blame it on the one I love, Raine
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ItsRaine
on July 16, 2005 at 5:38 PM
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kooka lives...You speak of faith as boxing-in. Not necessarily...yet, in some cases, yes. It's a complicated subject. Still, in the realm of current events, the radical terrorists do their deadly deeds not in the cause of their faith, but more as followers of hate-ridden leaders.
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reasons
on July 16, 2005 at 3:13 PM
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