Saturday, April 27, 2013

Why I Believe In Spirituality Rather Than Religion

To be spiritual is to be in direct contact with the Higher Power, and to allow one's self to be transformed.  To be religious is to follow a set of rules, which may or may not be influenced by the Higher Power as much as they may be created by someone attempting to institutionalize He, She, It or They for very human and very fallible purposes.

And that is why religion leads to tragedies like this one, where parents forfeit their reason, their better instincts and perhaps even their sanity, for a system of rules that comes from no higher power than the deceitful hearts of those who are trying to capture the infinite for their own, finite, corrupt purposes.

To the parents, and the church to which they belong, I can only once again quote the words of a movie Moses, from one of his other movies:

Damn you.  Damn you all to hell.

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