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Originally Posted by VigorsTheGrey
It's strange, but I have an affinity for the Hindu religions that I lack for the Abrahamic ones... First, I do not respect religions that begin with commandments. Second, the Mosaic 1st commandment regarding having no other Gods than the one god doing the commanding here is particularly offensive...the whole " thou shalt" trip is so very arrogant to begin with...and the emissaries of the Abrahamic religions are so convinced of the singular rightness of their beliefs...how boorish...!
If there is such a thing as true religion, the Hindu seem to be much closer to it than Jews, Christians, and Muslims...
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The major problem with all religions is they confuse difficult to understand inner work and techniques for mechanical rules. Do this or don't do that are false examples of what is taken as religion
The "god" inside represents a higher more conscious way of knowing and being. Originally, INHOL the message was whatever corresponds externally to the internal "god" principle is eventually discovered by connected FIRST with the internal god. Although literature from all religions do have examples those who discover this by design or sometimes by accident
So when traditions like Zen and the Vedic schools warn against using overly verbose intellect to "analyze" both the internal and external cosmic "divine" principles
One god is significant because we are normally fragmented. Unity within calls for unity or one god.
“All religions are true but none are literal.”
― Joseph Campbell
