I was raised Roman Catholic. Stepped away from it in college.
At this point, my understanding of Christianity is very different from what I was spoon fed by the exoteric tradition in which I was immersed growing up.
At this point, I consider mainstream exoteric Christian teachings to be incredibly distorted, just like mainstream Islamic, Jewish, Buddhist, and Hindu teachings all are distorted.
They all also contain truth, and they all correspond with one another in this way or that way.
At this point I regard each religious tradition as I would regard a witness giving testimony in a courtroom. Each witness testimony feeds the quest for truth. There's no sense in playing favorites with witnesses. Each contributes something important.
When I was growing up, I got caught up in the same crap that all dogmatists get caught up in which is the us vs them mentality. It's divisive and antithetical to the "love your neighbor as yourself" concept.
That said, I'll never go back to dogmatism in any form which is where I started, however I have found my way to having an appreciation for Christ and his actual, undistorted teachings that are consistent with the many other traditions.
💯. It’s good to seek truth. For me, my Christian faith (more independent evangelical) is pretty much the basis of my worldview and the source of my contentment. I’m always interested in how others arrive at their beliefs. I think what a system produces is always a better measure of the system than what the system says it intends.
Very much agreed. Judge the tree by its fruits.
My goal is to plant a tree that grows fruits that everyone likes so they all come hang out under this tree and eat together.
You can get different types of fruit from the same tree if you graft the right species together.
My goal is to show how all species, or religious and esoteric wisdom traditions, are graftable to one another.
My goal is to de-code the symbols and concepts of each tradition and, in doing so, de-silo the Tower of Babel situation we have in which few people ever explore the lingo and concepts of their neighbors.
If I can help people see the common teachings and decode distorted concepts and symbols, maybe we can begin to eliminate one of the many "us vs them" layers that have become all too entrenched in human thought processes.
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