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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you believe in love?  Jesus teaches us that God is Love.[/quote]

Are you really that naïve about Christianity? If God is just Love, then explain all of the requirements for our behavior that God apparently has. The Christian God--for better or worse (mostly worse, IMO)--is MUCH more than just love.

The Christian God judges everyone's souls after they die to determine if they go to heaven, purgatory, or hell. Sound like love to you? [/quote]

That is dogma not god.[/quote]

Ok -- so if you separate dogma and God, then you really need to move away from pretty much all organized religions. You likely don't come to a notion that God is the creator of the Universe, the ten commandments, the Bible, etc. on your own.

So it's probably best to forget about Jesus altogether and go for what you can derive from personal reflection/meditation. Then I can buy the notion that you come to the conclusion that God is a stand-in word for what binds all of humanity -- love and compassion.

As soon as you bring Jesus or Moses or whomever into the equation, you immediately get into the world of dogma, which is filled with what makes religion a force of discrimination and violence. [/quote]

You could move away from all... or move to all or pick one that works for you or not.

[b]There is not playbook for this. Nobody is going to give you all the answers. The true answers are within yourself[/b].

I don't have to "forget about Jesus"... I can say, what did he bring to my personal growth. 
I don't have to "forget the 10 commandments" I can say how do those laws help me become the spirit/person I am intended to become. [/quote]

I completely agree. For me, that means not calling myself a member of any organized religion. I generally like how Buddhists view things because they have relatively little dogma, but ultimately I view things very close to how George Harrison articulated things in songs like Awaiting On You All (if anyone has provided me spiritual guidance, it's him):

You don't need no love in
You don't need no bed pan
You don't need a horoscope or a microscope
The see the mess that you're in
If you open up your heart
You will know what I mean
We've been polluted so long
Now here's a way for you to get clean

By chanting the names of the Lord and you'll be free
The Lord is awaiting on you all to awaken and see
Chanting the names of the Lord and you'll be free
The Lord is awaiting on you all to awaken and see

You don't need no passport
And you don't need no visas
You don't need to designate or to emigrate
Before you can see Jesus
If you open up your heart
You'll see he's right there
Always was and will be
He'll relieve you of your cares

You don't need no church house
And you don't need no Temple
You don't need no rosary beads or them books to read
To see that you have fallen
If you open up your heart
You will know what I mean
We've been kept down so long
Someone's thinking that we're all green

And while the Pope owns fifty one percent of General Motors
And the stock exchange is the only thing he's qualified to quote us
The Lord is awaiting on you all to awaken and see
By chanting the names of the Lord and you'll be free[/quote]

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