I think our beliefs may overlap a lot. I tend to shy away from humanocentric (or even geocentric) ideas of God -- i can't buy into the idea that the Universal Force that creates All has any preference for us crazy monkeys over anything else. :)
I dig on a lot of the Buddhist and Quaker ideas i've run into, too, and actually am even quite down with Christ's actual message (tho not so much with the rest of the dogma that tends to come along with most flavors of Christianity)... but as seems to be the case with you, none of them seem to sync up with my actual spiritual beliefs, per se.
What's been rolling around in my head the past few years are some beliefs and ideas that sort of map many religions/philosophies into a common view of God. What's also fascinating me is that the workings of science and perhaps even the atheistic viewpoint might fold into it, too...
...and that's partially why i'm interested in the atheist viewpoint. That, and i have some very good friends who are atheists, and i am really interested to see if the ideas of many folks who i love and respect might somehow fit into the big picture of "spiritual" ideas.
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Date: 2007-02-22 02:09 pm (UTC):)I dig on a lot of the Buddhist and Quaker ideas i've run into, too, and actually am even quite down with Christ's actual message (tho not so much with the rest of the dogma that tends to come along with most flavors of Christianity)... but as seems to be the case with you, none of them seem to sync up with my actual spiritual beliefs, per se.
What's been rolling around in my head the past few years are some beliefs and ideas that sort of map many religions/philosophies into a common view of God. What's also fascinating me is that the workings of science and perhaps even the atheistic viewpoint might fold into it, too...
...and that's partially why i'm interested in the atheist viewpoint. That, and i have some very good friends who are atheists, and i am really interested to see if the ideas of many folks who i love and respect might somehow fit into the big picture of "spiritual" ideas.