The need of an inter-religious church - all religions talk about light vs. dark!

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4 years 8 months ago #336697 by
I`ve often come to think about that humanity could have good use of an inter-religious church which simply takes up the theme about light vs. darkness, regardless of different religions concrete religious stories.

The topic of light vs. dark seems to be universal comprehendible to all and seems to be the universal theme that every religion have in common, more or less, despite the differences between the different religions concrete religious stories.

But I guess thats what we have jediism for ;)

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4 years 8 months ago #336700 by
I've been lurking around an assembly of Unitarian Universalists for a month or two ... I'm not ready to start attending "church" again, but they seem to fit your description. They seem like a good bunch of people and trying to make it work.

Also . Jedi FTW :)

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4 years 8 months ago #336704 by

Kraz wrote:
The topic of light vs. dark seems to be universal comprehendible to all and seems to be the universal theme that every religion have in common, more or less,


I would disagree. For example I do not believe in the concept of light and dark in the context I believe you are trying to convey here.

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4 years 8 months ago #336722 by Adder
Day and night probably. We are really lucky to be born in our place of evolution and even more lucky to be the most capable species here, but stripped of those things might see us in an environment where focus laid and decisions made had a significantly greater urgency for rigidity - forcing our net group of behaviours to be much more narrowly defined in a specialization of survival. I'd say this tends to 'colour' ones existence, for it only really tends to fit in to a set place else it be destroyed. When this happens, I think it is as if one is immersed to the extent that there is no other colour that one can relate to... and that this is the darkness most real.

By contrast (no pun intended), being afforded the benefits of being human on Earth in this time means we can be open to a larger range of the spectrum of being, we are able to be more coloured in that manner of speaking. As such it could be said that this is akin to a 'every colour' Light path. The trick is having and holding this path outside of the comfort and security of those affordances in being human here and now. Carrying the flame so to speak.
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4 years 8 months ago #336847 by
Thank you for the tips, Luciane! :)

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4 years 8 months ago - 4 years 8 months ago #336849 by
My point isnt that every religion is dualistic, Kyrin Wyldstar, but that there in every religion, also monotheistic among others, seems to exist an (evaluated) belief that values "the eternal good" (which often affiliates as "the light"), that have a higher value than "the bad" (which we often affiliate with darkness).
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