In my twenties I made my own study of comparative religion, reading the Bible, the Koran, the Bhagavad Gita, and an exposition of the teachings of Buddha. (Also, for some reason, Huxley's 'Brave New World'. I suppose I thought it represented the humanist view.)
At the time I decided they had three things in common: as the Bible puts it, 'God is Love', 'God is Life' and 'Know Thyself'. So I concluded that all the rest must be unnecessary frills – or in many cases excresences – devised by humankind.
Have you read 'Conversations with God' (by Neale Donald Walsh)? Makes a heap of sense to me.
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In my twenties I made my own study of comparative religion, reading the Bible, the Koran, the Bhagavad Gita, and an exposition of the teachings of Buddha. (Also, for some reason, Huxley's 'Brave New World'. I suppose I thought it represented the humanist view.)
At the time I decided they had three things in common: as the Bible puts it, 'God is Love', 'God is Life' and 'Know Thyself'. So I concluded that all the rest must be unnecessary frills – or in many cases excresences – devised by humankind.
Have you read 'Conversations with God' (by Neale Donald Walsh)? Makes a heap of sense to me.