Monday, April 19, 2010

Spiritual Bullying.

Bully Believers - Beliefnet

Intellectual capacity and sophisticated concepts have little to do with spiritual discernment. One may be able to penetrate deeply into spiritual realities but lack the means to adequately express interpret it. This is attacked by critics of religion as an “unreasoned basis for belief.” Such critics are indeed 'bullies.'
Merlin

"Intellectual capacity and conceptual reasoning can be as important to spiritual discernment as any other input including God and religion. Spiritual discernment is necessarily personal, and paraphrasing Heinlein: one person's spirituality is another person's belly laugh. Neither the laughter or the spiritualist are bullying. If the spiritually is not strong enough to stand up to the belly laugh, maybe there is something wrong with the spirituality. The belly laugh is not bullying, but claiming that the spirituality is protected because it is 'Religion' is."

This is the asymmetry of the religious in the public sphere. They can knock on my door to peddle their God, but if I ridicule it or even suggest there are other ways of looking at the issue, I am being a bully and trashing their sacred concepts. Somehow because God is involved I am supposed to roll over say "that is nice," take a tract and say have a nice day. Not likely. I would just as soon have an pusher knock on my door and say "Want a hit?" At least hesh wouldn't be offended if I said "no, and the next time I call the cops." Why does God give Herm pushers special protection in the real world? Hesh doesn't of course but the pushers think they have it. The First Amendment gives them the right to push their shit, and it also gives me the right to call what they are pushing shit.

3 comments:

elderchild said...

Quite clear that spiritual discernment has nothing to do with religion for religion but carries on the legacy of the pharisee's, those who knew naught but the colored marks written on a dead tree ;-(

Peace, in spite of the dis-ease(no-peace) that is of this wicked world and it's systems of religion, for "the WHOLE world is under the control of the evil one" indeed and Truth....... francis

J'Carlin said...

Thank you for your comments. Although by the numbers the whole world is under the control of the evil one(s) I am nonetheless optimistic that those under the thumb of God are sowing the seeds of their own destruction by denying their parishioners, especially the female ones, access to the knowledge to survive in the modern world.

elderchild said...

There are multitudes of "parishoners" and they but follow the broadway to destruction ;-(

"I never knew you" is their fate ;-(

Simply, religion is anti-messiah.

Faith is Family, not religion.......

And a simple and spiritual life is the only life that will survive.

Father Help! and HE does.......