Dear Lord,
-- Or Whoever You are --
Either give me an answer,
Or Fuck Off.
Amen.

Maybe I'm just going to drive myself mad trying to pick one religion over another. Perhaps I just have to be satisfied with "freelance monotheism", throw Judaism, Christianity, Gnosticism, and Islam into the pot, and let whatever bubbles to the top be whatever it is.

If that's even possible.

1: I am seriously, seriously tempted to join the Canadian Forces. Need to investigate it more, but more and more lately it's something I find I wish I'd done when I was younger and maybe should still do it ( Read more... )

Lately I'm kind of in a spiritual middle-ground, like if there were a balance point in the middle of the triangle formed by Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It's a state of tension, of not-knowing and being aware of that, of letting myself not have any clue which path is the One True Religion. I believe there's one God, somehow the God of ( Read more... )

Conservative Judaism

The name of the movement notwithstanding, this sounds more and more appealing every day. And there's a Conservative synagogue in Halifax.

...

That's right, I'm going to confuse myself into deciding on a religious tradition ( Read more... )

I'm winging it on this post, just writing to work out this realisation that embedded itself in my mind recently.

( Scripture is inherently symbolic... )

Advantage of Islam over Judaism ( Read more... )

Significant advantage of Judaism over Islam:

Beer is kosher.

I wish there were a Reform Synagogue in Nova Scotia. Or even any evidence of a Jewish community near where I live. It would make investigating Judaism somewhat simpler.

Same goes for Eastern Christianity, in fact.

Re-reading Karen Armstrong's A History of God, Judaism sounds immensely appealing; less neurotic than Christianity, less ascetic than ( Read more... )

Trying to reconstruct the gist of the long post that I lost. That one was more structured and organised. This one is ad hoc and messy because I can't be bothered to structure it a second time.

( theology, A.K.A., 'Fuck It' )