Thank you for sharing this, Femi! Many of those quotes resonate with me as well. I wrote this the other day and posted it on Facebook:
Of all the religions I have studied, tried out for a while, or dabbled in, the only one that has ever made sense to me is not even a religion. And thank goodness because I don't like religions, which tend to be repressive and full of hypocrisy. The Lakota had no religion, just a spirituality framed by the understanding that everything is connected. The Great Spirit is not in their image, but in the image of all things, all living beings. I believe that connectedness is what will save the human race, if it is possible to be saved. Connectedness can only be had with maturity, which includes openness and grace, and with your humanity still intact.
My uncle was a televangelist who founded his own international church. He was quite famous in the 1970's. To make a long story short, I learned very early on that I want nothing to do with religion.
Thank you for sharing this, Femi! Many of those quotes resonate with me as well. I wrote this the other day and posted it on Facebook:
Of all the religions I have studied, tried out for a while, or dabbled in, the only one that has ever made sense to me is not even a religion. And thank goodness because I don't like religions, which tend to be repressive and full of hypocrisy. The Lakota had no religion, just a spirituality framed by the understanding that everything is connected. The Great Spirit is not in their image, but in the image of all things, all living beings. I believe that connectedness is what will save the human race, if it is possible to be saved. Connectedness can only be had with maturity, which includes openness and grace, and with your humanity still intact.
My thanks and appreciation to you for reading my work🙏
I found too much sham and hypocrisy in religions to make them distasteful to me!
My uncle was a televangelist who founded his own international church. He was quite famous in the 1970's. To make a long story short, I learned very early on that I want nothing to do with religion.
Thank you for introducing me to Robert Ingersoll, Femi.
You are most welcome. What are friends supposed to be for😳