My True Realities

There is this idea of a universal truth of right and wrong. In this idea, God makes a blanket statement and rule for all of humanity, and it is the duty of humanity to follow it without question or fail. The problem with this point of view is that it does not allow for individuality. There is almost no situation in which a blanket statement applies to everyone all of the time. I suppose there are some, all humans being worthy of Love for example, but even that appears different in application. (Each human needs different expressions of Love at different times). Thus I would say that any blanket statement of right and wrong is inherently legalistic, but perhaps that is a blanket statement, so I won't be a hypocrite. I will just say that I am learning that we don't have the omniscience that is needed to impose our view of right and wrong upon another person and that our sovereignty extends only to our own lives, never to another's. Some of the biggest religious rules, o...

Every religion has this idea that their theology is the best. Many have this mentality that they have to convert others to their religion because their way of life is the only really, truly good way of life and all others are secondary, are less-than, are not as good. When I was a Christian, I loved others as best I could, but I did so by wanting to change them, to give them the things I thought were the best things in my life. I thought the best way I could love people was by making them like me, by making them believe and do what I thought was right, and I thought that was what God wanted because I had been told what I was telling others: this way and no other is the Word of the Lord. I hate theology because it takes the inherent goodness of a person's heart and makes them hateful and abusive toward people they're trying to love or save. If I take a person, a unique individual expression of Yahweh who is doing and being themselves and I tell them that the way they are is in...