religion
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Making Sacrifices
There are times when, in the furtherment of the divine cause, we have to make sacrifices. We are human beings with real emotions, and we are empathic creatures, which means we feel each others’ pain. Sometimes, if someone around us is going through some challenging emotional experiences, we will pick up on that, and feel… Continue reading
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Thoughts About the Afterlife
To be honest, the nature of the afterlife is a complete mystery to me. It seems to be part of our human nature that we can only speculate on the afterlife during this life. I do, however, have a faint vision of what the afterlife might be like. I believe that angels and other spiritual… Continue reading
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Everything is Sacred
Just a quick thought for the day. Part of our human nature is tiredness. Personally, I don’t get bored much, but I hear other people complaining of boredom all the time. If you are a spiritual person you will know that everything is sacred. Every word we write is sacred. Every sip of each drink… Continue reading
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Building a Church for Everyone
My plan, after I am discharged from psychiatric hospital, is to keep taking my medication and attempt, if the divine wills it to be so, to begin bringing together people of different faiths in order to initiate discussions that may eventually lead to the creation of a new church. Regular readers of this blog will… Continue reading
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‘Why Do We Suffer?’ by Daniel Liderbach (book review)
I am currently reading for an essay entitled ‘Does God Suffer?’, and I have been somewhat sidetracked as I keep finding interesting looking books about human suffering, rather than God’s suffering. Of course, the two subjects and closely linked, and the problem of human suffering fascinates me almost as much as the essay question. In… Continue reading
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Truth, God, Morality and Ethics: Conversations with Martin (part 2/2)
This is the second part of my email conversation with a friend in which we began by discussing panentheism (see Conversations with Martin (part 1/2)), and then moved on a variety of subjects including free will, the nature of God, morality and ethics, and more. Each discussion topic is prefaced with a question, which will… Continue reading
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