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This Video has been making the rounds on facebook and youtube lately.
The poet is a contributor on the website http://chiselseason.com/ where a handful of authors speak about their relationship with God and struggles with faith and religion.
The struggle to find God in the religions of the world has always been a challenge to me. I think there has been a trend for a long time of people saying they are spiritual and not religious. This author asks can you be a person of faith and not religious, even anti-religious? he also asks is being "publicly religious" keeping you from faith?
At Spirit of Truth we have been talking about the narratives found in religion:
We promote the religious narrative of love -that teaches that people should be mentally, physically and spiritually free. That there is enough for all if we share. That God loves and so should we. That God wants justice for all and so should we.
and the man-made religious narrative of fear -that injustice is necessary so that we can have security, that hatred and intolerance are okay because there is scarcity and people are not deserving. That God approves of inequality and oppression and so should we.
In the poet's words I think we see a clear contradiction, he is calling out the religious narratives of fear(saying that is religion), while proclaiming those of love and faith in a God of love.
So lets have a discussion (write some comments below):
What do you think about the video?
What do you think about religion vs spirituality vs faith?
What do you think about the narrative of love vs fear?
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