tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695813850715269190.post8066870498793111531..comments2024-02-12T13:31:38.266+01:00Comments on Politics, Economy, Society: Lent is overstudent SGHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01367244307612092688noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695813850715269190.post-53652362992611202742010-04-05T18:11:44.450+02:002010-04-05T18:11:44.450+02:00I believe "I'm still searching" is a...I believe "I'm still searching" is an outlook shared by many mature people torn between rationaly and spirituality plus those who want to believe and don't embrace the Church in the state it is today.<br /><br />I have a lot of respect to Christians, those who truly believe and who are not hypocrites, I'm rather trying to distance oneself from 'warring atheists' who continually try to eradicate the Church and mostly clergy (though atheists and believers of other religions should not be discriminated - and pointing fingers at somebody and saying they don't go to chruch, don't attend religion classes or they weren't baptised is already below the belt). I also don't like when somebody associates being partiotism with religiousness. And as economist I think priests (like farmers) should pay the same taxes as other citizens (also on donations!). I think people will lose their respect for Church on their own, by means of evolution. There's no need to overthrow anything. Times are changing and if the Church doesn't get with the times it will fall behind and our we'll have empty temples like in the West.<br /><br />You might be an atheist and follow most of the Ten Commandments. 4th to 10th are absolutely universal ethical rules I think everyone should follow.student SGHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01367244307612092688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695813850715269190.post-27888327129043344062010-04-05T17:43:51.002+02:002010-04-05T17:43:51.002+02:00'I'm still searching'... I'm almos...'I'm still searching'... I'm almost twice as old as you, but I can still put my signature under this statement. There are too many things I can't rationally explain to declare myself pure atheist, although no established religion satisfies my need for the Truth. Your approach is really interesting (and similar to mine), which means that you are a 'cultural Christian'. Probably someone has used this term before me but I coined it for myself after Orhan Pamuk who calls himself 'a cultural Muslim'. <br /><br />Whatever the terminology, any attempt at self-discipline is good for you! <br />Best wishes!Stefan Kubiakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15131335918736379023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695813850715269190.post-45150114402493545662010-04-04T18:53:47.937+02:002010-04-04T18:53:47.937+02:00He's back and OK after the end of Lent.
'...He's back and OK after the end of Lent. <br /><br />'I'm still searching' is, I believe, the only honest approach to spirituality. No honest religion should offer certainty or ask believers for money.<br /><br />The main reason I didn't update readers with a week-by-week update as to my Lenten progress is that this year's Lent literally shot by - it went by so fast, it didn't hurt!Michael Dembinskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05657728002439035765noreply@blogger.com