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Maybe it is a rebellious preachers kid thing because I've been experiencing some of the same thoughts. I used to pray often.. almost every night I'd pray for like 15 minutes about everything from friends to Sadan to toothpaste. But the other night I was having trouble sleeping and realized that I hadn't prayed for like a month. I hadn't been really alive at church when I was there either-Just kind of going through the motions. And then JUST TONIGHT I saw a movie that really helped me out. It's called Short Cut to Nirvana and I saw it in a small screening room at an off beat movie theatre, so I doubt it would come anywhere near Burlington. Anyways, it was a documentary about this festival they have in India that is the largest festival in the world. They have it every 12 years and all the Hindu followers go (70 million came in 2001). I won't bore you with the details, though I highly suggest seeing it if you ever get the change... but the Dahli Lama visited to show his respect for the Hindu religion and said something like.. "Hindu, Christianity, Buddhism... they're all the same really. We love.. and love is really all that matters. So on the way home, I thought to myself how much it sucks that many Christian sects are closed minded to other religions and belive the people who follow them will go to hell. I personally believe in the righteous pagan... meaning whoever lives a good life will have a good after-life (if there even is an afterlife.) But basically, now I see religion as any form of spirituality. It's just a matter of what finding out what your spirituality is. Maybe your connections with people... or you like to write poetry or meditating... whatever works. So to summarize. Just because you're not being what Christians say is "religious" doesn't mean its gone from you. If you're happy and you have love in your life, I think that's all that matters.
I realize this really doesn't address much of what you wrote about. Oh well. :D
It's called Short Cut to Nirvana and I saw it in a small screening room at an off beat movie theatre, so I doubt it would come anywhere near Burlington. Anyways, it was a documentary about this festival they have in India that is the largest festival in the world. They have it every 12 years and all the Hindu followers go (70 million came in 2001). I won't bore you with the details, though I highly suggest seeing it if you ever get the change... but the Dahli Lama visited to show his respect for the Hindu religion and said something like.. "Hindu, Christianity, Buddhism... they're all the same really. We love.. and love is really all that matters.
So on the way home, I thought to myself how much it sucks that many Christian sects are closed minded to other religions and belive the people who follow them will go to hell. I personally believe in the righteous pagan... meaning whoever lives a good life will have a good after-life (if there even is an afterlife.) But basically, now I see religion as any form of spirituality. It's just a matter of what finding out what your spirituality is. Maybe your connections with people... or you like to write poetry or meditating... whatever works.
So to summarize. Just because you're not being what Christians say is "religious" doesn't mean its gone from you. If you're happy and you have love in your life, I think that's all that matters.
I realize this really doesn't address much of what you wrote about. Oh well. :D
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