Depends on who's organizing it IMO.A common truism in here, is that organized religion is bad, and an enemy of the truth. While "organized" perhaps sounds ok, "religion" rings bad ...and together, it's more of a monster. Now, this thread is not for listing bad stuff done by, say, the Catholic church or radical Islam; not very interesting.
If you've had a spiritual eureka moment, and share it with your neighbor, you might end up meeting up regularly to discuss it. Is it organized yet? No really. But a few years down the road, you might have put your teachings into a book (dogma!), and you find yourself being the leader of a small crowd (hierarchy!).
We tend to hate on the big older players, while being more accepting with the smaller, newer crowds.
About 10 years ago, when a small rural Swedish pentecostal church was all over the news; they had grown to adopt some weird teachings, and it culminated in murder++. Would it perhaps be a good idea if there was some level of leadership in the movement, overseeing each other a bit? For the movement as a whole (and the murdered and/or disillusioned people), a better organization would perhaps be helpful.
TL;DR: Most spiritual ideas get "organized" at some point, and we should judge each idea by it's own merit, not by level of organization.
Do we die alone?I know I struggle with that every day wondering if I'm just dysfunctional for wanting to be an individual. But then I think about how we are born with a mother but die alone and it seems like life is a gradual push to individuality whether one wants it or not.
Christianity, Islam and Judaism = bad.
Indigenous religions = good.
Since I am European, I follow the European native religion.
May i ask about the name of that religion? Some form of germanic paganism?
Is organized religion all bad? No
Is organized religion all good? No
The problem with organised religions is often the sexist, racist or homophobic veiws they try to promote. I feel that this is what drives a majority of people to turn to athiesm. They don't want to be associated with it.
In my opinion - what drives "athiesm" is people who don't even know how to spell.
My Best,
Bertha
I suggest you learn how to spell before making pronouncements about religion and atheism. It might help your cause.It's not a word I spell often so forgive me for a minor spelling mistake, no need to be a dick about it
My best
John :)
I suggest you learn how to spell before making pronouncements about religion and atheism. It might help your cause.
My Best,
Bertha
I suggest responding to an actual point as opposed to ones grammar or spelling, it'll help you seem at least a little intelligent. If you have nothing to contribute to my post then do me a favour and ignore me.
That should be a possessive : "ones grammar" should be "one's grammar. On second thought johny, perhaps you shouldn't post anything at all.
My Best,
Bertha