I was re reading my post and it hink i went off the topic a bit. .. atually, something else occured to me.
In the Book, Pi is confronted by all his religious leaders why are astonded that they are all approaching the same boy. When Pi has to explain why he is so devout to so many, he says trtuhfully that he just wants to love God.
I gues, if you dont see allt eh faces of the multifaced diamon, its easy to take God for cgranted, espeically me- when you only focus on the love part, we often feel patron to God, that God is our slave and ollwos obediently out of love. This is never the case if we truthfull remeber his power and authority over everyhting ever created. We should hold all faces up with the utmost importance becuase without it, we can't trully know God fully and fear him properly. To interupt your everyday jobs to fall on your knees and pray fervantly at excatly the same time without fail is an awesome sacrifice and igues it keeps you in line, stops you from growinga big head and makes you remember God's importance.
But the problem is, as idealic and uniting and beautiful a concept is to follow lots of diferent religions at once in love of God- well, it can never be done. All religions have their right and wrongs, and it all clashes.
Infact, when pi ran to his temple again after become a christian, it seems that he knew Christ as God- but to me it almost seems like his belief in christ was to know he exsists. it wasnt a complete belief, a complete follwoing. When things clash, your going to have to abandon diferent parts of religions to make it fit, and that jsut doesnt work if there is a write and wrong way to worship God.
There. Add that to the last post.
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
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Hey yeah, taa. I just have two thoughtful thoughts on the topic to stick here for you :D.
1.God says (more or less along these lines...you probably know more about what im talking about than I do) that no matter what we've done in our lives, no matter how far from Him we've strayed, no matter anything, if, in the very last second of our useless, pointless lives we asked Him for forgiveness, truly, he would welcome us into His kingdom.
Love, ay? And not just for the do-gooders.
2. A muslim (anonymous) once said to my aunt: "You Christians claim to love your God and to respect him. You believe that God is there with you in your church, that he is up at that altar, that his body is being given out for you to eat. If you truly believed God was up there, you would be crawling on your belly, your face in the dirt, as you approach Him."
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