tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8603608065283862695.post5570682628758180525..comments2023-10-16T09:05:46.222-06:00Comments on Woman Arising: This Crazy Thing Called FaithSherryPeytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07239097315957926347noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8603608065283862695.post-12166281821653438142015-12-27T07:36:08.301-07:002015-12-27T07:36:08.301-07:00thank you :)
thank you :)<br />SherryPeytonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07239097315957926347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8603608065283862695.post-68995016349953035302015-12-26T20:54:42.225-07:002015-12-26T20:54:42.225-07:00I am warmed and enlightened by your response.I am warmed and enlightened by your response.The Marauding Angelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00209100454633440762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8603608065283862695.post-30480282156678609092015-12-19T09:04:51.643-07:002015-12-19T09:04:51.643-07:00Each path is one's own. Owning that path seems...Each path is one's own. Owning that path seems to me the important thing. Ignorance or being unaware of the journey is the sad result for many. I say that to mean, that I judge not the journey of another (except when they insist on intervening in my life unasked), and if made with awareness, then it is where you are supposed to be I trust. I know many like you, some of them highly educated in faith matters. For some, like yourself, if I read you properly, it is a matter of "why bother with a god so disinterested that in years of trying I have nothing to hang my hat on that He listens, let alone helps me in some way." <br /><br />You suggest that faith motivates our emotions which would be better handled by recognition of our emotional connection to each other. I see one as fostering the other actually, and that God is that proposition--i.e., the go-between in our attempts to see ourselves as part of a greater humanity. Of course, when we do that, see ourselves as part of the greater, we are, IMO doing as God would have us do. <br /><br />I do think that religion fosters community, and that community is both essential and meaningful, for it represents our meagre attempts at the trinity, while at the same time, gives us the experience we need of sharing our emotional lives as members of a believing community. That community is composed of members at far different places along a spectrum. By our community we give them support for their journey, acceptance of their doubts, encouragement of their successful actions. <br /><br />For me, as well, the physical building provides support as well. I "feel" something in some churches that I do not in others. Some pastors leave me cold, while others excite me. At times, I can lose myself in the stained glass, other times, the people around me fill some void at some given time. It varies...SherryPeytonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07239097315957926347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8603608065283862695.post-66512909586390956652015-12-18T19:16:45.399-07:002015-12-18T19:16:45.399-07:00I came across your blog because of my googling exi...I came across your blog because of my googling existentialism and ennui. There's no returning to spirituality for me as the very idea of metaphysical yearnings are heresy of the natural world, IMO.<br /><br />My life began religious/spiritual and became disbelieving through gradual reasoning. What profiteth it a man if he believes in a Figure with no physical connection to this world and with only claims and possibly emotions to support its existence in a post-death world which again only lives on in claims and emotions of its purporters? To feel at peace despite the overwhelming evidence of non-existence post death and non-power of any god?<br /><br />Perhaps what should connect us is our humanity rather than our emotion derived faith. Do you find community in church? Or do you find a feeling of rightness?The Marauding Angelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00209100454633440762noreply@blogger.com