Snippitts of Illusions

Another night. Another series of strange thoughts from ol' frank. I've returned to sorting, pricing and organizing a category at work that is near and dear to me as far as interests go. Religion. Everyone seems to have something to say about it whether they be bible thumping baptists or obnoxious atheists. Religion along with politics is one of those topical areas that really impassioned society as a whole, especially society that is allowed to think for itself. That is of course not saying that most people do think for themselves, I personally do not see it as the case, but that is another topic for another day, today is religion. I find the variety of theological viewpoints within given faiths the most fascinating thing about religion. There is not a single religion out there that isn't affected by a rift of differentiating sects, or wasn't at least considered a sect of another whole at one time. Even Christianity starting with Christs death (or ascendance) branch off with a multitude of sects and 'churches'. Buddhism experienced the same rift about the same time in its religious infancy. Hinduism was almost set up to be sectarian in nature. And Islam sects are oft times at such discordance as to be violent towards one another. What does all this mean? First and foremost that humans can't agree with each other. Secondly that no one person holds the apparent rights to the truth. What is the truth you ask? I don't know. Find that out for yourself, but remember whatever it is you find, someone is going to have a different either interpretation of that said truth, or a completely different truth. None of us will know what is right until the time comes to find out, and when that time comes, well, we won't be at liberty to divulge that information to anyone else.

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posted by F.G. Shaw @ 6:07 AM