Musings of a spiritual nature

[alitheapipkin]

Monty Don was on Start the Week on radio 4 this morning talking about a project to use working on a small holding to rehabilitate heroine-addict criminals and as he was talking about a spiritual connection to the soil, the land, and growing things, I think I grasped what Brian Day is presumably trying to get at with his book The Modern Pagan: How

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[vodkafrenzy]

I'll always have far more respect for someone who rejects the notion of Deity but lives with reverence and love*, than for someone who claims they love 'God' but doesn't feel the need to manifest His love in their daily lives.

Ditto but from a godless perspective :)

I think the phrase I like goes something like "standing in a garage makes you no more of a car than standing in a church makes you a Christian" and lots of other vaguely overlapping ideas about what I like to call being a good human .

[alitheapipkin]

Well quite. Despite being a very religious child, i only stuck at Sunday School for abut a year because I was somewhat horrified by the majority of people who seemed to think that going to church on a Sunday made them a good Christian even if they behaved like morons for the rest of the week :(

I was very influenced by my mother, who as a cultural or secular Christian, always made it very clear that her idea of a good Christian was someone who treated other people in a Christian manner, as in the kind of behaviour that you could assume Jesus would approve of.

[alitheapipkin]

It also goes for people of different religions of course. Another sticking point I had was the idea that Christianity is the One True Way. To me, the very fact that there are people of different faiths who manifest Goddess's love until it shines out of their eyes, is a clear indication that there is more than one path to the same Truth.

[alitheapipkin]

Well, you are one of the people I particularly had in mind. I'm not at all convinced that just because I recognise the universe as Deity and you don't, what we feel in our hearts is actually any different.