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Originally Posted by Burning Down
I consider myself an atheist Jew. There's a whole history and culture that goes along with being Jewish and religion is only a part of that. I don't reject religion at all, but I personally don't believe in a deity so why get involved in religious matters? I haven't really been involved in religion since my Bat Mitzvah when I was 12, but that doesn't mean that I've completely rejected religion as a whole. I respect people who have faith in God, or who go to church every week, etc., just like I respect others who don't.
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Of course you've probably got your own idea of identity and I'm not begrudging anyone that but going off what you said, imo, you're a Jew who has a dispute over certain aspects of Judaism, then. I think the atheism part is unneccessary.
God is a lot than just Heavenly Father, in my belief, that's all I'm saying.
Moot point anyway I suppose. I'm shouting to myself. In the end, it is how it is, we'll all see that one day *shrug* Maybe there's diddly squat at the end, maybe we all siphon off down the drain and its done. Or maybe we move on somewhere to some other state I dunno.
But what is not moot and what is relevant is us, now, thinking, doing. I do more thinking than doing, but eh what I mean is reality. Thus, Religion is always valid so long as any particular Religion teaches a way of maintaining and making the best of your Existence. Maybe that's all God is in the end - a burning fireball that we're sitting in the middle of. How long we keep throwing fuel on the fire is how long we keep burning, and burning is all we've got. Maybe. Or maybe we gotta...light some rockets...
I need to smoke on this hmmm.
On topic, seeing as I've managed to write a lot without writing anything to the original post - I would call myself very religiously and spiritually observant, but I take everything with a grain of salt. What makes sense makes sense, what works works, what doesn't doesn't. I am Muslim, but I am also laid back. I haven't been to a Mosque in years. I consider it a big part of what shaped me as a person though, and I consider it my base, my grounds.
Base must be proven to be solid ground. Solid ground must be built on. Continual progression from an understanding of Nothing. Like dropping a seed in a barren land and watching a garden grow. Inter-function. System, order. Harmony. Cause and effect. Creation, heartbeats boom BOOM boom BOOM living things, LIFE, existence existing, Almighty Creation staring at where the void would be without it.
**** like this I dunno I should write it all down more clearly these are cliffnotes