Religion is when you hold God to a standard lower than your Earthly father. I mean your Earthly father if he is a good man, can not be burning well behaved people in hell fire because of unbelief in some tales. Your Earthly father if a good man can not burn you in hell for worshipping other gods.
My ancestors had no religion but they had spirituality.

Your problem .

I am a Christian without apology.

MightySparrow:
Your problem .

I am a Christian without apology.

Well, do you at least agree that religion should be done in private?.

lawani:
Religion is when you hold God to a standard lower than your Earthly father. I mean your Earthly father if he is a good man, can not be burning well behaved people in hell fire because of unbelief in some tales. Your Earthly father if a good man can not burn you in hell for worshipping other gods.
My ancestors had no religion but they had spirituality.

Do you then approach these ancestors of yours or do you approach living beings for advice on this spirituality of yours? If you rely in any way on living humans —not psychiatrists and medical doctors — for your spiritual understanding, how different are you from the religious folks who equally do the same?

lawani:
■ Well, do you at least agree that religion should be done in private?.

Is your spirituality really private if you have to exchange understanding or even receive counseling on it from others whom you regard as your spiritual advisers — many of them not even connected by blood to your very same ancestors?

Kobojunkie:
Do you then approach these ancestors of yours or do you approach living beings for advice on this spirituality of yours? If you rely in any way on living humans —not psychiatrists and medical doctors — for your spiritual understanding, how different are you from the religious folks who equally do the same?

Approaching people to be taught or guided is the hall mark of every academic discipline

lawani:
■ Approaching people to be taught or guided is the hall mark of every academic discipline

There is nothing spiritual about academic disciplines though. Also, many religious ideas are traded in academic settings. That does not make them any less religious, does it?

Kobojunkie:
There is nothing spiritual about academic disciplines though. Also, many religious ideas are traded in academic settings. That does not make them any less religious, does it?

You refuse to agree that Christianity and Islam are stand alones despite all my efforts to make you see otherwise and all the evidence. I can not enter into your head.

lawani:
■ You refuse to agree that Christianity and Islam are stand alones despite all my efforts to make you see otherwise and all the evidence. I can not enter into your head.

Stand alone? That you have only been generally exposed to majorly those two does not in any way make them unique as far as religions are concerned.

I thought IFA was your religion?

Are you openly distancing yourself from African traditional religion that you have become known for?

I agree that God cannot be confined within the construct of a belief system, but at the same time, it is
important to note that these belief systems exist to detail various ways people can connect to God. Each plays an important role in the spiritual liberation of mankind.

Kobojunkie:
Stand alone? That you have only been generally exposed to majorly those two does not in any way make them unique as far as religions are concerned.

They are unique in that they are the only ones with caveats for unbelief. They insist God punishes people for unbelief.

lawani:

Well, do you at least agree that religion should be done in private?.

I think so but Christianity is commanded to be shared with people.

Religion is NOT for reasonable people.

You need to CRIPPLE your critical reasoning to be a religious person.

Otherwise, there is NO way you'd believe a god who lets the PRIDE of just ONE being DESTROY the world he created.

Plus if he has the power to destroy the Devil, why didn't he do it the FIRST time the Devil became a sinner.

Also, the ORIGINAL sin happened in the same PURE heaven they're selling to people. By the original sin, I mean the PRIDE of Lucifer that got him expelled from heaven.

So if SIN could infiltrate heaven ONCE, what's to stop it ftom happening again?

ALL religion is contingent on the continuous STUPIDITY of people.

Spend 5 minutes thinking about it and the FOUNDATION of every religion will DISINTEGRATE faster than a cube of sugar in hot water.

lawani:
■ They are unique in that they are the only ones with caveats for unbelief. They insist God punishes people for unbelief.

So? If out of all 4000 known deities, 1000 of them decide to give what you refer to as caveats for unbelief, what does that have to do with anything? Is any crime being committed by the having of those or what?

lawani:


Approaching people to be taught or guided is the hall mark of every academic discipline

Life is a school for people to learn spiritual lessons.

MightySparrow:



I think so but Christianity is commanded to be shared with people.

That is why there is need for legislation in all countries to restrict religions (Christianity and Islam and maybe Judaism) to private homes