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Originally Posted by cardboard adolescent
in the loosest sense, isn't the bible a tool to get to god? of course religion should be seen as a tool, it's hardly an end in itself. it's just words...
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That much is obvious and doesn't need explanation.
But the end, itself, is believed in by virtue of the tool. Experience is great and all, but out of religious context, it's nothing more than an experience.
Spiritual experience has been around far longer than organized religion. But prior to religion, it never had a face. Never had a name.
Religion, in my opinion, merely serves as that face, that name. It fits each and every spiritual person personally and when it doesn't, they whittle and carve away at it until it does.
To me, something that malleable could never be taken seriously.
If it ultimately ends up all being for my own personal benefit, then what difference does it make whether I worship Jesus or the BattleToads?