Thought-provoking line I just read in a news article:<\/p>\n
I am not smart enough to argue with those that cling to disbelief. Centuries of philosophers have made better arguments than I could, and I am comfortable with just pointing in their direction if an acquaintance insists, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If there is a God, then why [insert atrocity]?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d For me, belief didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t come after I had the answer to that question. Belief came when I stopped needing the answer.<\/p>\n
From Why I’m Coming Out as a Christian<\/a> by AnaMarie Cox.<\/p>\n Every human has probably asked\u00c2\u00a0the so-called ultimate questions, “Why are we here?”, and “Why does God allow suffering?”, “Why doesn’t God show him\/herself?”<\/p>\n When we stop needing the answer — ’cause we’re simply never gonna get the answer\u00c2\u00a0–\u00c2\u00a0is the only time we\u00c2\u00a0can relax and just believe, just get to\u00c2\u00a0work. Some “believers” become spiritual workers. They work\u00c2\u00a0as a spiritual guide\u00c2\u00a0and\/or spiritual\u00c2\u00a0helper for others.\u00c2\u00a0Some “believers” are quiet advocates working behind the scenes thru prayer and meditation.\u00c2\u00a0Others\u00c2\u00a0do nothing other than\u00c2\u00a0live their\u00c2\u00a0life as an\u00c2\u00a0example of how allowing your spiritual side to develop brings ultimate happiness in life.<\/p>\n Why be spiritually retarded? You work on your mental and physical self, why ignore the other third, the spiritual? I think a lot depends on how a person is wired. Some people naturally gravitate toward developing their spiritual third just like many athletes\u00c2\u00a0develop their body first and foremost, and scientists develop their mind \/ mental capacity more.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Most people I work with in\u00c2\u00a0my field of religion and spirituality\u00c2\u00a0are spiritual-mental\u00c2\u00a0dominant with their\u00c2\u00a0physical health and fitness, developing their body, coming\u00c2\u00a0third.\u00c2\u00a0 A few are mental-spiritual dominant instead of spiritual-mental (with the physical coming third). Of course we all know many people\u00c2\u00a0who are physical-mental\u00c2\u00a0dominant or\u00c2\u00a0mental-physical with their spiritual\u00c2\u00a0third coming in last. That is the great majority of humanity, I think. \u00c2\u00a0I have not yet met anyone who perfectly balances all three.<\/p>\n I’ve heard that Tibet is the most spiritual “country” in the world. Tibet has the highest concentration of ordinary people devoting their lives to religious life, becoming priests and nuns. I put country in quotes since China annexed them and Tibet sadly no longer exists, but that’s another story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thought-provoking line I just read in a news article: I am not smart enough to argue with those that cling to disbelief. Centuries of philosophers have made better arguments than I could, and I am comfortable with just pointing in their direction if an acquaintance insists, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If there is a God, then why [insert atrocity]?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d … Continue reading Believers in the Divine don’t need Cosmic Answers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existence-of-god"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1078,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions\/1078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}