Alternatives
I am often asked why I subscribe to no religion and how, as a poet, I can live with no sense of spirituality. Well, I relate most closely to pantheism - more of a philosophy than a religion - and take a strong sense of spirituality from nature. Yes, I dispute any religion's claim to have a monopoly on spirituality, the human spirit being a combination of mind-body-spirit drawing on nature and the kinder side off human nature for inspiration and, yes, a sense of spiritual well-being.
While I respect other religions, I often feel let down and ill-judged by those same religions that profess to have their roots in the principles of peace and love but are disinclined to apply either to anyone who cannot enter into the religious beliefs in which those principles operate. Yet, are we not all part of a common humanity, deserving better than to be judged on how far we can see eye to eye with one another on life and love?
Many religious people DO take people as they find them and DON'T presume to judge them according to their own religious beliefs, and they are a credit to humanity, although it has been my personal experience, in all my 74 years, that they are in a minority,
As I have asked many times in blog posts /poems...whatever happened to agreeing to differ?
ALTERNATIVES
Copyright R. N. Taber 2012
Labels: consciousness, human, mind-body-spirit, nature, poetry, positive, posthumous, religion. culture, society, spirit, spirituality, thinking
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