the role of religion in society today

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shanshee_allures Feb 14, 2008 09:31:57
Replying to Hob

Hob wrote:
shanshee_allures wrote:
What do cats and dogs feel as they sit rapt, head tilted towards the sun?
Happy. that's another important bit of spirituality innit?

One other thing before I shut up. Religions with a sense of humour seem quite rare. Whereas spiritualistical shenanigans seem quite capable of retaining a good sense of perspectve and not taking themselves too seriously.

Yes indeed. Religion always beckons you to feel crushingly grateful for your awakening, it's never to do with sheer hedonism (to whatever degree you are taken there, re each individual there will be a cline, so it can manifest itself as something reflective and peaceful or being out yer face on one), which at our very hearts, is always good for us.
So perhaps religion has not only staked a claim in what is spiritual it has politicised it too.
So much for 'purity'.
x

H handofdave
handofdave Feb 14, 2008 11:36:59
Replying to shanshee_allures

"Yes indeed. Religion always beckons you to feel crushingly grateful for your awakening, it's never to do with sheer hedonism...which at our very hearts, is always good for us."

Holy hedonism is an old idea, and accepted by most religions, even to some extent the big patriarchal ones. Feasts, festivals, dances, holidays (and in a rougher form, tent revivals, often attributed as the catalyst for many a conception).

The devotional aspect is always present, so I guess this is what you mean by it not being purely hedonistic- but there is a place for pleasure in most religions. Within bounds, of course, but pleasure itself isn't outlawed, unless you're talking about the most extreme forms, which distrust all pleasure as being seductively destroying.

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