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Originally Posted by Angela  Tabs -- your remark "I can't afford to lose faith" was intriguing. You said that you gained clarity from your experiences, but it sounds like some part of having faith & then losing it cost you dearly, and you're afraid of having to pay again. What exactly did you lose by going through that?
Love,
Angela |
Hi Angela,
I meant lose faith in any more religious writings because of influence of different interpretations and manipulations of the words. Like I mentioned I have specifically two religions that I question anything or I should say I am suspicious of anything written in the last millennium. I say question everything you read but when I feel that the text is written with some ulterior motives that I am suspicious of.
I have not and will never lose faith in God, the Universe and All, but I believe in freedom to make my own interpretation of information written by those who came before me. This came to be as a result of depiction of women in the writing and this happened when I was a child, I just did not get why I shouldn’t be the same as my male counterparts.
So I do read the books, I have to read between the lines to get to the truth, and I don't believe in blind faith either, but that is another topic. God gave us minds for a reason and make sense of writing myself. I have complete faith in something much bigger than myself and so far this method has been priceless to me.
PS
Losing faith doesn't cost one dearly, it is not making use of it that is expensive and I don't mean money.
Cheers and thanks for asking.