My religious beliefs

[joshwriting]

A question on Sheroes asked "How did you come to your beliefs?"

After many years of studying and reading about different religions, including the one I was ostensibly raised in, and after prayer seeking guidance (and a clue), and after conversations with priests, reverends, rabbis and shamans...

I concluded that I have nary a clue, nor any chance (in hell) of finding one.

I am a devout agnostic, dedicated to the principle that I do not and cannot know what is going on with deities.

I do pray, though...

p.s. If I listed my mood as contemplative every time I LJed, I suspect it would not be inaccurate.

Comments

Re: Praying for, not praying to...

[dpolicar]

I'm not sure I understand the significance of the difference between "wishing" and "praying" (and for that matter "hoping" and "desiring" and "wanting" and various other English words). To be honest, it sounds an awful lot like a roundabout attempt to say what could be said more simply as either "faith is good!" or "faith is bad!" depending on one's predilections.

The semantics aside, I do think there's an enormous difference between purposeful/focused desire and amorphous/undirected desire. The former can often get something done, regardless of whether one attributes the mechanism to well-disposed gods or psychic abilities or attentiveness to mundane opportunities or whatever. The latter, not so much.