Choices

As a child, I was not brought up with any religious background but I was taught to appreciate the world and people around me. Maybe things would have been easier for me if I had been brought up with a religious background, I would have gone through a lot less confusion. But to be honest, I feel things turned out wonderfully for myself, it just took a while to figure things out. The natural world always seemed so much more believable than going to church every Sunday or reading the Bible. I just could not bring myself to worship a man that had been tortured and nailed to a cross wearing a crown of thorns. It always seemed a little on the morbid side. Life is much to beautiful to worship death. I was never expected to worship things just because my parents accepted them. Real life and evolution made so much more sense. I am a fact and science believe, that is just who I am.

Jackie Wellman
www.hoppy.bravehost.com

Spiritual Clarity

Does it really make sense that the creator of the whole universe would be the same God in our own religion and not any other, so everyone else in the world is wrong? Organized religion seems to be similiar to lemmings in the Arctic heading to a cliff and falling into the sea just because the lemming in front of them and their ancestoirs did it. Religion has been and is an excuse to hate and kill. Religion is also a way for humans to relate to God and a behavioral guide for those who need it. It is and always will be hard to understand why some people need rules to tell them how to behave in simple matters, like being kind to others. I do not understand how anyone would need church to tell them how to act in a caring manner but some obviously do. Religion can outline a path toward a specific goal. It can answer some of the mysteries of existence. It can tell us how to achieve a meaningful life. It creates comfort for the faithful. Religion is definitely the most powerful force in history. Unfortunately, religion has been and is a way to justify bigotry, racism, and sexism. Ignorance and lack of contact, belief that your religion is the only right one and everyone is else is highly mistaken can lead to fundementalism and that can be dangerous. It is important to have harmony among different religious traditions. As human institutions, all religions are capable of corruption.

If religion, faith, and spirituality create questions within yourself; please check out my website and order my book Spiritual Clarity which will make everything more clear as researching and writing the book brought clarity to myself.

Jackie Wellman
www.hoppy.bravehost.com