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Originally Posted by impaul99  I've only been to Church like once a year in the last 10 years or so, mostly for like funerals and weddings and baptisms and stuff like that. Since I've been learning and pursuing a spiritual path, whenever I go I always listen really carefully to what the priest is saying.
I'd like to say that they are idiots, but every time I've gone and listened, everything they said made total sense to me. I don't know, sometimes I get the feeling that maybe these priests are not to blame. Sometimes I think the people attending church are just not listening to a word they are saying and just doing their own thing, pretending to be following their Church.
I don't know... I find it hard to have an opinion on this topic. |
If you were in a church and could look inside each person's mind, you would discover that they all have their own concept of God, a personal meaning to the name of Jesus and so on. We each have our own religion, IMO, that is what spirituality is. When people come together in a church, they aren't denying that fact. They are saying, "There are some common threads in all of our personal religions, let us celebrate."
The problem is when I think that your spirituality should be exactly like mine. I go to an Evangelical church and sometimes a Catholic church. I'm sure if I sat down with some of their members and got into a theological discussion, we would discover that our beliefs are different in many ways. I'm not there for a debate. I enjoy singing the hymns and I get something when I listen to the sermons.
I spent many years arguing with people and thinking I needed to be right. After quite a bit of life experience, I realized that what I know is not that important. Whether I love people or not is. That doesn't mean I have to bow to anyone's intellect or allow people to walk all over me. At the end of the day, I still love all people even if I disagree with them or they hurt me in some way.
If you look into the hearts of people including your own, you find they are all the same. We all have the same hopes and fears. It doesn't matter whether it is the Pope, 50 Cent or Steve Pavlina.