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Pastimes : The Grafted Tree (Gentile's & Jews learn from each other)
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To: Ga Bard who wrote (189)4/10/1998 11:16:00 PM
From: Krio  Read Replies (1) of 702
 
>>I would have to say I am a spiritual man. Does being a spiritual man have a religion since I believe in any belief that causes mankind or a small portion of there to be and act within a standard world wide moral behavior?<<

I would say yes since morality lies within the province of religion. Moral teachings and even moral sensibility comes from religion. Divorcing it from religion is really not practical even though people in our age do it all the time. They do it because they still have a functional memory of religion, even if they do not practice what they still remember.

IOW, where do people turn once the religious basis of their morality is forgotten and they becomes confused about morality? Back to religion of course.

Religion is, however, much more than morality. That's why I don't think you can say that you are a Catholic, Buddhist, whatever, all at the same time. There simply is too many differences among religions. If I say that I am a member of many religions, than my understanding or practice of them cannot be that deep or serious because if it were, I would have to face the contradictions between them and chose one over the other.

Anyway, FWIW.

GK
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