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Originally Posted by Textcritic
I'm really beginning to push the bounds of my own thinking in some of my more recent ideas: I think that I may be moving into a place where I believe that religion has run its course, and that is ok. I still believe in God (most of the time), but more and more I am found questioning practically everything I was ever taught about him. Predominantly, those things about religion and about Christianity specifically: Maybe it is time to admit—as a Christian—that the harm that religion has caused has rendered it obsolete. Can the future of religion be an abandonment of it? Is it possible to remain a theist and a Christian, and to reject the sacral institution of the Church?
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Don't give up on a "spiritual" life. We could all do well to study the symbols without being burdened by their factuality. I don't like the term "spiritual" (I don't think there are spirits) or "mystic" (sounds like hocus-pocus). I think we can all be "seekers". Why identify ourselves by only one philosophy, when we can obtain wisdom from many?
Carl Sagan said at the start of
Cosmos that "we are all made of star-stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself".