Snippitts of Illusions

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religion.
what a tricky topic that one, so many people where it on thier sleeves like a rank that it isn't funny.
it's a little funny how it works, too many religions encourage investigation with in the religion but not without.
don't expand your minds.
if you can read contrary material, or see contrary evidence, and have your faith non-shaken. then you can trully believe.
i've written a bit on religion, both in notebooks of various sorts, and papers for school (when i attended such a thing) .
it's a topic i always turn back to.

i listened to an interview on fresh air yesterday by a professor who had just written a book on the mistranlation of the bible, particullarly the new testament.
it seems medieval scholars were making up stuff, or adding stories they had heard from the time
the apostles (if they were the ones who actually wrote it) to the time of... well up to today.
not much is being added (unless you belong to one of the religions that were founded here in the states), but it is being repackaged with a whole modern lingo, which may or may not pull meaning from the words.
i'm also currently reading a book on jesus (see keep coming back to it) called: jesus, a life. it's interesting, the author, once a faithful christian now considers himself an agnostic.

personally, and keep in mind this is me, i think that religion or faith is a private matter.
that being said, who's to judge whether you're hindu, muslim, mormon or wiccan?
none.

i like the quotes from Einstein and Russell that Kevin put up.
one of my favorite quotes on this topic are from the early twentieth century philosopher Wittgenstein.

"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. "

"For a truly religious man nothing is tragic."

"Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony."

"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."

posted by F.G. Shaw @ 5:47 PM