Monday, 13 April 2009
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I was taken by surprise yesterday when the Easter church service made me choke up a little. How, after all of this time, did that happen? And what does it mean? Perhaps I just really like to sing. Perhaps it reminded me of the painful achy parts of myself that need healing but not necessarily religion. Perhaps I just felt sad that I am disconnected from a church that was a powerful good force in my life despite its flaws.
Sometimes I think I could be Lutheran. Then again, the Passover seder last week reminded me of all the things I like about Judiasm; maybe I could be Jewish (and not just because Passover is really fun). Some days I think I'd like to be Buddhist, though I haven't really looked into that. But what I like about these faiths is what they teach about social justice and community. I am not really drawn in by the God part, which I think should be a factor in choosing a religion.
I am not sure about much of anything in this realm. But I do know that on occasion lately I've wanted to glance at a Bible, something I left behind at my parents' the last time I moved. Yesterday I fetched it and opened it for the first time since I don't know when. I read Hebrews 11 and Isaiah 58, both longtime favorites of mine. It wasn't awesome; I wasn't moved to tears and nothing shone down from heaven and revelations did not inspire me. But it was nice... just nice. And that was enough.
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We need to hang out. Seriously. So many things to catch up on.
Also, you make me smile. :)
Hmm, so you think you could be both a Lutheran and a Jew. Theres always the option of Messianic Judaism, I'll admit I've known many that find it strange and think its almost an oxymoron, but many others on how it fits.
Its also strange there are actually quite a few people that are buddhist and christian (and by this i don't mean people that are christian then claim to be buddhist because they meditate or do yoga..as among other things those forms are usually corrupted so they aren't actually doing them. Though there are people that are definitely, both. Which westerners find surprising, but most easterners don't. Also, being buddhist (which remember is not actually a religion) it is also common to be something else. For example most people in Japan are Buddhist, yet most of the Japanese Buddhist actually practice the religion of Shinto.
The difference in Buddhism is that in not actually being a religion there is no real concept of god in Buddhism. Also (and I won't got to deep into this as the reasons would be a very long tangent) though there is actually quite a bit in many eastern traditions about how Jesus would actually definitely be at least a llama and possibly a buddha. These are in turn often paralleled by stores that part of the "lost years" (how jesus goes from early teenager to 30 in the bible) is actually because he spent part of it in india learning from the llamas. (Much like how there is actually a tradition in many Native American cultures that part of the lost years were actually spent in the America's.)