[ SECRET POST #2323 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #2323 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.


__________________________________________________



02.


__________________________________________________



03.


__________________________________________________



04.


__________________________________________________



05.


__________________________________________________



06.


__________________________________________________



07.


__________________________________________________



08.


__________________________________________________



09.


__________________________________________________



10.


__________________________________________________



11.


__________________________________________________



12.


__________________________________________________



13.


__________________________________________________



14.


__________________________________________________



15.


__________________________________________________




















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 069 secrets from Secret Submission Post #332.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

I believe in (a) god and I'm all for bashing religion.
Belief in a higher power =/= religion.
I'm no member of any church, cult, clan, what have you and I also don't have holy texts that tell me what to do. And yet I believe.

Just because there are good people who in turn do good via using their religion doesn't mean relidion itself can't be heavily critisized or "bashed" as you call it.

Also, religious texts can be "dismissed" as fiction just fine as we still lack evidence for 90% of the things that took place according to them.
Oddly enough, while the Holy Bible (but I forgot which version/translation) mentions that unicorns are real, all Christians I know would laugh at me if I told them I believed in unicorns. Because that's just humbug. Unlike a guy who walked on water and turned water into wine or a guy who heard a donkey talk to him (yup, that's in the HB as well).

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

this. If someone asks me if I'm religious (or what religion I belong to) I really don't know what to say. I can't imagine not believing a higher power, but I always have to side-eye organized religion, though I can understand its benefits. I have been helped A LOT by the Catholic Church and I really love the people I know who are Catholics, and I do find beauty in some of the Bible/rituals/images, but the organizational structure as a whole I can't really get behind. Power can easily lead to corruption, and religious leaders/institutions are no exception. And quite honestly, I could never accept spoon-fed dogma. I don't just blindly accept what I'm given, and quite honestly, I feel that my search for answers has gotten me a lot closer to God than if I just blindly accepted everything.

And yes,

slightly tangential

[(Anonymous)]

this. If someone asks me if I'm religious (or what religion I belong to) I really don't know what to say. I can't imagine not believing a higher power, but I always have to side-eye organized religion, though I can understand its benefits. I have been helped A LOT by the Catholic Church and I really love the people I know who are Catholics, and I do find beauty in some of the Bible/rituals/images, but the organizational structure as a whole I can't really get behind. Power can easily lead to corruption, and religious leaders/institutions are no exception. And quite honestly, I could never accept spoon-fed dogma. I don't just blindly accept what I'm given, and quite honestly, I feel that my search for answers has gotten me a lot closer to God than if I just blindly accepted everything. There is no One True Religion with an answer key; there's just us, the brains we are given, the world around us. And God, which (I believe) in all those things.

And I do strongly believe that religion MUST be criticized in order for reform to be possible. We can't just tiptoe around matters that seriously need to be addressed. How else would progress be possible?

Re: slightly tangential

[(Anonymous)]

Criticism and bashing aren't the same thing.

Re: slightly tangential

[(Anonymous)]

And many Christians see the former and interpret it as the latter.

Re: slightly tangential

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

On your thing about "No One True Religion", I am nominally a part of an organised church (nominally, because I haven't attended in years, but I'm still technically a member and think myself as being one), and my church has a lot of stuff about the "True Church", but doesn't believe that means one particular denomination. It's believed to be a far more amorphous collection of True Believers that could belong to any church or creed, but manage to be, well, True Believers.