Why are you religious?

Hi, my scientific dogma mind wants to agree with you, but I really don't know what to do about the weird things that have happened. I can't just forget them. But I can't prove they happened either. Each to his own as long as you don't upset anyone, now that sounds a bit wiccan, doesn't it? :-)

Hi, perhaps not, should you have a child, I think that you may carry out some instruction to your child as to wiccan beliefs, therefore beginning the cycle afresh. Perhaps not. But even wicca is in disarray, with many branches of belief and tradition, none of which can actually be traced beyond the early 20th century. I think that people today need religion for the same reasons they always have. We all need to be loved, we all want to be looked after, we all want to be social at sometime and recieve verification that we are accepted. Being accepted by others is a most human trait. Being rejected by one group will cause pain, and being accepted by another will cause joy. Where are you going to go, to where you and your beliefs are accepted of course. I agree very much with your statement of religion being used to explain things away, that still goes on. But even I have been confronted with the most inexplicable events, that I cannot explain nor have proof of it ever happening. I really hate it when that happens, having a bit of a scientific dogma type thinking, I need proof, so when something like that happens, it is a real spanner in the works, so now I surrender myself to the knowledge, the universe will reveal itself to me in its own time. I also have some suspicions that run alongside your own, tending towards the living Earth. One of my relatives when a young lad living in Scotland, about 1955, had a milk run to keep, he had to get up early in order to make his rounds. He and his chums often played at battles on the paddocks with real sabres and flintlocks that could be purchased in local Edinburgh bric-a-brac junk shops. They would be thrown into the river when finished, because for pocket money, another lot could be gotten, these old battle weapons were plentiful and often found a plently by farmers where battles took place. One day while in the junk shop, he purchased several very old books, some of which are still in our possesion. One of them contained incantations and spells, he carried out one of the incantations as he went to bed, with the intention of not sleeping in. At exactly the prescribed time the following morning, the shutters blew in, a cold wind blew around the room, he woke with a start, looked at the time, realised what had just happened and them promptly tossed the book out the window into the street. The books date from the 17 and 1800's. The ones retained are poetry. I also once walked into the middle of a corroborree that wasn't there, in the middle of the Australian desert, I wondered if I was being gifted or had gone mad. Nothing like that has happened since then 14 years ago.

I agree with religion being a private thing, but humans being what they are, need to share their beliefs and experiences with others of similar ilk. Good on you and yours.

Thanks mate, all the best to you and yours.

Yes, it's a bit like the proof in the pudding.