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Pastimes : History's effect on Religion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E. T. who wrote (42)	5/6/2003 10:16:31 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Respond to of 520

> It's not really religion (maybe I mean spiritual) if it remains static Actually you have it right. Spirituality is pretty much the same as it has always been. Religion on the other hand is a doctrine designed to propagate a specific ideology, strategies, and tactics which in turn are designed to answer specific needs of the time. I was reading a Scientific American article on the subject and found it interesting that the Church officials were pretty much against Spirituality. They felt that the emphasis on spirituality would diminish religion. After all, if the spiritual experience is the goal, there is no need for any particular religion; spirituality is reachable from many paths.

To: E. T. who wrote (42)	5/7/2003 8:52:43 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 520

That is what every organized religion would have you believe I certainly hope I have not given you the impression that I believe anything claimed by religion, organized or otherwise. As I wrote to Sun Tzu, branching is not really the same as changing. But you have given some interesting examples re Judaism, change from sacrificial character after destruction of the temple, etc. Would you say the change has stopped in the past few hundred (or a thousand) years? And if so, can we say that once religion becomes sufficiently organized, it stops being sensitive to changes around it?