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The Religious Instinct
Maybe religion is the antidote to everything else we are taught we should do as conventional beings. We exert effort, express ourselves, make money, raise a family, contribute to society, earn fame and a good name, make our parents and our children proud of us, and, at the end, die a good, happy death. After all the doing, we might find there is a limit to it. We still don’t know how to be. Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, philosophy, religion, Writers
Tagged Bhagavad Gita, Fresh Air, Gita, God, Hinduism, religion, religious instinct, Sabbath, Shulevitz
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Our Primal Religiosity
The religious impulse is one of man’s earliest discoverable attributes. We might decide to earn a living selling shoes or defending the accused in courts of law but when the demands to survive in our money-based society recede our base instincts are revealed, life-giving and life-destroying as ever. We might even discover that everything else we’ve done in life we’ve done motivated by this primal urge, which is nothing less than our attempt to understand what gives us life, what makes us alive, what makes us capable of hurling questions at the unfathomable mystery. Continue reading
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Tagged Catholics, Filipinos, Jews, religious instinct
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