My main gripes with organized religion can be broken down to several issues.
They tend to be monotheistic and that leads them into a them/us mindset about those who feel differently. Being monotheistic, they perceive everything as a fuedalistic power-over with the head honcho making all the decisions. When I think of monotheism I think of micro-managed melalomania deified.
Me, being pantheistic in inclination, perceive creation and the physical laws as being a loose knit coopoerative of all sentient beings, which is mutable over time.
Hard to find any good examples of religions who held the reigns of temporal power where they did not kill or torture those who believed differently than the particular religion in power. Sephardic Spain may have been one, but no telling if it would have remained so had they not been conquered by the Xians.
Great post. I came here from a link you posted to dark_christian. May I repost to my LJ with link back here?
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They tend to be monotheistic and that leads them into a them/us mindset about those who feel differently. Being monotheistic, they perceive everything as a fuedalistic power-over with the head honcho making all the decisions. When I think of monotheism I think of micro-managed melalomania deified.
Me, being pantheistic in inclination, perceive creation and the physical laws as being a loose knit coopoerative of all sentient beings, which is mutable over time.
Hard to find any good examples of religions who held the reigns of temporal power where they did not kill or torture those who believed differently than the particular religion in power. Sephardic Spain may have been one, but no telling if it would have remained so had they not been conquered by the Xians.
Great post. I came here from a link you posted to