Mr. Ed
Be what you is not what you what you ain’t
- Location
- Central NY
Individuals who identify themselves as conservative are most often strong on obedience to rules and authority, and concerned with 'ego defense--safety, security, cleanliness, and about outsiders or intrusion. They are less concerned with equality, freedom, love pleasure and they devalue open-mindedness as well as intellectual and imaginative thought.
The difference between tradition-oriented religiousness and modern spiritual individuals, traditional's have high confidence in their received doctrine--the sources of authority that mandate rituals and specific rules for controlling social and sexual behavior, including what is called "family values" They are highly authoritarian with low tolerance for openness to experience. In contrast, "modern spiritualist" are concerned with attaining a personal insight into the nature of reality and have less restrictive barriers than conservative traditionalism.
There is a never-ending confusion between the real world and the world of metaphors and imagines that can become an obstacle to genuine understanding of the world and of life. Unexpected events can sometimes stimulate religious belief as noted with Christchurch in Russia earthquake and when a meteor struck the town Chelyabinsk in 2013, many citizens believed this cataclysm was divine admonition; one local Christian minister preached that it was a message to humanity from god. In a 2011 poll 38% of Americans believed natural disasters to be signs from god. 29 % believed that god sometimes punished a nation for the sins of citizens.
The exception to this pattern were white Evangelical Protestants where almost 60% believed that natural disasters were a sign from god, compared to a third of Catholics and white mainstream Protestants. A majority, 53 % of white Evangelicals believed god punished nations for the sins of their citizens--a view held by only five white mainline Protestants and Catholics. a Christian minister following the devastation of hurricane Katrina stated it was a specific punishment for the lasciviousness, homosexuality and other depredations. The Mayor of New Orleans said it was a warning about the citizenry wayward and dissolute behavior.
Combating and cancelling literalism.
The number of literal believers are decreasing, yet antiquated beliefs hang on today. A recent PEW poll found that 72% of Americans believe in heaven and 52% believe there is a hell. In a Harris poll conducted in 2013, showed 57% of US adults believe in the virgin birth of Jesus, 72% believed in miracles, 68% believed Jesus to be god or the son of god, 65% believed in the resurrection, and in a 2009 Rasmussen poll indicated that 82% of Americans believed that Jesus was the son of god who came to earth and died for our sins, and 79% believed the central claim of the Christian faith--that Jesus literally rose from the dead and ascended to heaven. This common theme is repeated, over and over again, all over the world, every Sunday.
If taken metaphorically as originally intended, these descriptions could function to uplift our conceptions of who we are. As Idries Shah wrote; "you must conceive of the possibilities beyond your present state if you are able to find the capacity to reach toward them" These metaphors of "impossible possibilities" are meant to raise the bar and help dissolve the barriers to the "elevation" of our consciousness.
God 4.0: Robert Ornstein and Sally M. Ornstein
The difference between tradition-oriented religiousness and modern spiritual individuals, traditional's have high confidence in their received doctrine--the sources of authority that mandate rituals and specific rules for controlling social and sexual behavior, including what is called "family values" They are highly authoritarian with low tolerance for openness to experience. In contrast, "modern spiritualist" are concerned with attaining a personal insight into the nature of reality and have less restrictive barriers than conservative traditionalism.
There is a never-ending confusion between the real world and the world of metaphors and imagines that can become an obstacle to genuine understanding of the world and of life. Unexpected events can sometimes stimulate religious belief as noted with Christchurch in Russia earthquake and when a meteor struck the town Chelyabinsk in 2013, many citizens believed this cataclysm was divine admonition; one local Christian minister preached that it was a message to humanity from god. In a 2011 poll 38% of Americans believed natural disasters to be signs from god. 29 % believed that god sometimes punished a nation for the sins of citizens.
The exception to this pattern were white Evangelical Protestants where almost 60% believed that natural disasters were a sign from god, compared to a third of Catholics and white mainstream Protestants. A majority, 53 % of white Evangelicals believed god punished nations for the sins of their citizens--a view held by only five white mainline Protestants and Catholics. a Christian minister following the devastation of hurricane Katrina stated it was a specific punishment for the lasciviousness, homosexuality and other depredations. The Mayor of New Orleans said it was a warning about the citizenry wayward and dissolute behavior.
Combating and cancelling literalism.
The number of literal believers are decreasing, yet antiquated beliefs hang on today. A recent PEW poll found that 72% of Americans believe in heaven and 52% believe there is a hell. In a Harris poll conducted in 2013, showed 57% of US adults believe in the virgin birth of Jesus, 72% believed in miracles, 68% believed Jesus to be god or the son of god, 65% believed in the resurrection, and in a 2009 Rasmussen poll indicated that 82% of Americans believed that Jesus was the son of god who came to earth and died for our sins, and 79% believed the central claim of the Christian faith--that Jesus literally rose from the dead and ascended to heaven. This common theme is repeated, over and over again, all over the world, every Sunday.
If taken metaphorically as originally intended, these descriptions could function to uplift our conceptions of who we are. As Idries Shah wrote; "you must conceive of the possibilities beyond your present state if you are able to find the capacity to reach toward them" These metaphors of "impossible possibilities" are meant to raise the bar and help dissolve the barriers to the "elevation" of our consciousness.
God 4.0: Robert Ornstein and Sally M. Ornstein
