I owe a lot to both Huston Smith and Joseph Campbell. From them I learned to step away from my formerly myopic Protestant fundamentalism (beaten into me by my family in the formative years of my life) and instead embrace a more sensible and more spiritually viable ecumenical perspective in which all roads tend to lead to the same destination.
To take that one step further, I rather doubt that God cares much about at all about denominations, sects, or varieties of religious experiences. It is too bad that adherents to denominations, sects, and major religions so tragically and sometimes brutally overlook the foregoing which I believe to be a fact.
One should respect and care for one's variety faith as one does one's language - which never inclines one disparage or destroy someone else's language. Indeed, that other language may teach you much.
I owe a lot to both Huston Smith and Joseph Campbell. From them I learned to step away from my formerly myopic Protestant fundamentalism (beaten into me by my family in the formative years of my life) and instead embrace a more sensible and more spiritually viable ecumenical perspective in which all roads tend to lead to the same destination.
ReplyDeleteI think it extremely important for those of us who are believers to remind ourselves that what we are most counting on is God's mercy.
ReplyDeleteTo take that one step further, I rather doubt that God cares much about at all about denominations, sects, or varieties of religious experiences. It is too bad that adherents to denominations, sects, and major religions so tragically and sometimes brutally overlook the foregoing which I believe to be a fact.
ReplyDeleteOne should respect and care for one's variety faith as one does one's language - which never inclines one disparage or destroy someone else's language. Indeed, that other language may teach you much.
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