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Divad123

(93 posts)
Thu Apr 16, 2020, 03:06 PM Apr 2020

a difference [View all]

There are dimensions of every human that are spiritual, but they tend to fall into two categories: faith and belief.
Belief is spiritual truths learned from your culture, or church. Faith is based on personal spiritual experiences and spiritual truths you have figured out for yourself.
Belief tends to decay into religiosity, or whatever lowest common denominator is found in your religious community. Science is seen as the enemy, and is, because religion parading as science MUST distort science in order to maintain the claim.
Faith tends to flower into a mature spirituality, and faith is not harmed by science. Rather, knowing the boundaries or domains of both scientific knowledge and faith can enhance and strengthen each other.
They can slide into each other, be blended, but this tends to be temporary. Religiosity tends to extinguish true spirituality and true spirituality tends to abandon religiosity as a primitive or one-dimensional misstatement or misunderstanding of what spirituality is about.

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a difference [View all] Divad123 Apr 2020 OP
An intertesting post. guillaumeb Apr 2020 #1
Sometimes Divad123 Apr 2020 #3
What you describe as truths are not factual and have more to do with belief Major Nikon Apr 2020 #2
awareness Divad123 Apr 2020 #4
These are still your beliefs and not facts Major Nikon Apr 2020 #5
standard Divad123 Apr 2020 #6
"Quality" is a subjective observation Major Nikon Apr 2020 #7
epistemology Divad123 Apr 2020 #9
If you are talking about a purely neurological state edhopper Apr 2020 #8
Not quite Divad123 Apr 2020 #10
I don't accept the existence edhopper Apr 2020 #11
not saying that Divad123 Apr 2020 #12
Oh edhopper Apr 2020 #13
Yes Divad123 Apr 2020 #14
Zen edhopper Apr 2020 #15
And Divad123 Apr 2020 #16
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