Hinduism, Buddhism, Paganism and Organized Religion in the East

 

What is the difference between Christianity and Paganism/Neo-Paganism?  The question is what is the different between an organized religion and a non-organized religion?  Should faith/religion/tradition/denomination/whatever you may call it be organized.  What is faith?

 

 

Before I continue, I want to state, I like to call it faith.  To me the word faith has more meaning.  The word religion means to me an organized system of how we should believe.  Tradition and denomination have about the same meaning.  They are sub-categories of a type of faith.  Christianity has its sub-categories as well as Paganism.

I also want to state that I am not bashing any faith system.  What people believes in is up to them to decide.  How others lives is none of my business.  What I have done in this blog since the beginning is show that what is not Christianity, and what I believe in.  I will never demand how others should live. 

Hate is never the basic core of any faith.  Sad to say that most Christians today are hateful. Most stick their noses in places where it does not belong.  I said, “Most.”  There are some Christians that shiver over how hateful so many under Christianity have been acting.  This is NOT Christianity AT ALL!!

There is no text in the Christian Bible that teaches hate.  In fact, it teaches not to do what most Christians are doing today.  That goes for any faith system.  Muslims faith is not a hateful one, spite what happened on September 11, 2001.  The ones that did attack us on that day, were not following the true Muslim faith, or any faith for that matter.

The biggest problem that I see with any organized faith is they have too much of an authority system.  I have nothing against authority in life.  Authority has its place, and is important in life itself.  When it comes to faith in something, the only authority that should be given is from oneself.  Faith can only be controlled from oneself.

Here is what I believe:  The ratio of the number of people on Earth to the number of faith/religion/denomination/tradition/whatever is 1:1.  We all have to find the answers to our lives.  It is our life after all.  We cannot live for others.  Neither can any type of organized religion.

Before the Roman Catholic Church (RCC), during the Dark-Age, there were no torture/murdering to force others in a “one way to believe.”  In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, there has been more torture and murder.  The RCC stated that other faiths were evil.  What really happened, they become the most powerful tyrants in Earth’s History.  True, the RCC did not dominate the whole world, but they did cause the worse hate throughout history.  It was not called the “Dark-Age” for nothing.

In most Pagan/Neo-Pagan faiths, it is solitary.  This means these individuals follow their own paths, make their own faiths system, make their own rules, believe in the way they want to believe.  Since no two people think alike, than how can any two people believe alike? Science has proven that twins are not alike as much as we have thought.

A lot of people freak out about Paganism.  This is mostly due to “polytheism.”  How I understand polytheism, it means organizing the characteristics of a higher being.  All living things has a masculine and feminine side.  It is no different for the divine.

The Christian Bible has countless different people in it.  They are mentioned to show the limitless of all the characters of God.  If any faith is polytheist, it would be Christianity.  They are so many characters of God throughout the Bible.  Just the same, Christians do not realize this.

That is the dangers of authority in faith.  They do more in blinding their followers than teaching them about their faith.  On that note, how can one teach me how to grow in my faith?  I know myself more than anyone.  I can only live my own life.  That is what faith is all about.

 

 

The purpose of faith is to find the purpose of why we are alive here on Earth.  So in faith are we created in God’s image, or is God/Goddess created in our image?  In Christianity, we are taught that we are created in God’s image.  Believe it or not, mythology is in every faith.  When I started reading about the Egyptian Mythology, I saw similarities with Christianity.

Did the Jews copied the Egyptians?  I would think they learned about the Egyptians and told the same story in their own way.  There is no real copyright with faith.  There are over 6 million people on Earth now.  That means there are at least that many types of faiths.

If you ask five different Christians what a certain verse means, you will get five different answers.  If organized religion is so much of an absolute, how can one verse have different meanings?  That proves that faith is not an absolute.  Faith means different things to different people because we create God in our image.

This does not mean that faith has no meaning.  It does mean that only our understandings can create our own spiritual path.  Only we can walk our own spiritual path.  No one can even teach us how to do it.  This can mean that a person’s path has nothing to do with God or a Goddess or any other divinity individuals.

 

 

The true meaning of faith is the sole purpose of bettering one’s life.  It has nothing to do with rules and regulations as organized religions dictate.  If having fellowship with a deity or deities will help you to grown and become a better person, than all means do so.  it is your life after all.

Brandon Bowers

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Hinduism, Buddhism, Paganism and Organized Religion in the East