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Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina  |
As a fairly new devotee of Steve's writings, thank goodness I finally saw Steve's humanity shine through in his angry (translation: "unprocessed" past hurt) and sarcastic (translation: consequent vindictiveness) speech about the evils of religion. I was beginning to wonder if Steve had everything in life figured out. Finally I see that Steve is just as human as the rest of us !(sarcasm mine).....and someone who obviously deeply desired spirituality at a young age and discovered, quite accurately and sadly, that the catholic hierarchy available to him with this charge failed truly and demonstrably. As an inactive catholic myself (not for or against the church)...I empathize with his outlook and his conveyed broad brush approach that religion is a pariah...however, for me, I simply know several happy, happy people, with deep spirituality and a love for their religion that still do think for themselves.
The reality is that there will always be a plethora of Scribes and Pharisees in any religious matrix that will unknowingly murder the yearnings of desirous believers....there will always be the Power Hungry types that endeavor to persuade the naive that GroupThink is what God wants (even though Christ said that for specifically His Disciples, this is NOT the way to follow Him).....St. Paul said it best: "We all stumble" in our spiritual journey and that includes the ignoramuses and the hypocrites that make up the leadership of organized religion....
I think Steve is closer to God than he may realize..World watch out if and when he gets to that marker in his life of reconciling (forgiving in his heart) the failings of his early spiritual direction as he finds that God actually does love him incredibly....beyond his wildest imagination....