Did You Know That..

*ponders* I feel that...it is wonderful that everyone can believe or disbelieve whatever they wish. *smiles* I've read many religious texts as well, do I have to believe everything I read? Of course not. But then perhaps its easier for me, because my religion is electic paganism...more of a base than a strict guideline. I can pick and choose principles and teachings from many different religions to believe as I wish. I like to think of it as "freedom to seek the truth from all over the world" lol. 'Cause if you think about it, everything could be true. It's possible even that none of its right. I'm willing to keep learning and wait and see which one, if either, it is.

Many religions just only have some Ideas like just be good, love everyone, and a set of inherited traditions. In my view, they may be just some views of the great spiritual people lived and those might have thought to revive or make better an existing corroupted society. Myself I can believe everything my religion teaches, when come to practice, I try to do it to my best. and I'm a Muslim.

That is very disturbing,I thought belief is necessarily a product of knowledge on a subject-I then find it funny for belief and faith in a religious mattter should be deminishing with greater knowledge on religious matters!

Those supposed to be theologians did not go along with God but they went ahead of God and believe that nobody is better than themselves. It is not the theologians that we should believe into. We should believe and have faith in God. We should be subjected to God and never to man.

I'm not as bothered by it since I myself seek answers and do not fully believe in the texts. I've even had thought exercises on a few concepts of religion and existence. Theologians may deeply believe or choose not to believe in the religions for reasons similar to this. I do know of a couple other examples where the leaders do not believe in the text but still preach it for more selfish reasons (keeping a lifestyle, control over others, perversion). Taken either way it doesn't influence me that much on a personal level, well minus the more perverted preaching and warping of religion(violence toward others, etc). And personally, I'll keep believing what I want but still search for answers to the questions of religion, history and existence.

I find it fascinating, actually! I have noticed this over the last couple of decades. I have also noticed that those who deeply study the Bible often become agnostic. Obviously there is something in the deeper study of religion that shows religion to be less than desirable. And it's really not a surprise. Given all the different religions and all the different versions of many of the religions, it has to make one wonder how any one religion could be right. All these differing interpretations of the same written material shows just how much human opinion has re-written so much of the original stories. I have questioned the accuracy of the scriptures since I was 8 because they were all written by men. We certainly see things differently than women do, plus have a tendency to modify things to our male advantage. Add in the fact the most of the current Bibles are interpreted translations of interpreted translations thousands of years over, there is serious room for error, inadvertently and otherwise. Now add the power of authority to the religion and its churches and every power hungry individual will scramble to use their religion as a means to try to coerce others into doing things the way they want. Such power is dangerous in the hands of mere mortals and it is regularly taken advantage of by so many. I think this realization is part of what converts theologians into non-religious people. Humankind's misuse of the Bible's teachings for self gain is a real turn off.