[Faith-talk] Refutation and preeminent repudiation totheZionistsubjection.

[Brandon A. Olivares]

Kendra,

Nice to know you are a Pagan. I went down that path at one point in my life. :)

To answer your question, no, I don’t recognize any text as “sacred”. Every text has been written by humans at some point in history, and it is simply their best idea of what the universe is like. They create gods, offerings to gods, rules that those gods want us to follow, consequences for not following those rules, etc. It is all mythology.

The closest that comes to Truth for me is the Bhagavad Gita and the other Upanishads. But still, they were from a human perspective, and thus not inerrant.

There is only one authority, though in many forms. When a person realizes Truth— and I mean ultimate Truth, not simply one form of truth in some religion— then that person is an authority on Truth. I mean people like Buddha, Kṛṣṇa if he existed, Lao Tsu, and likely the true teachings of Jesus if they were ever to be uncovered and separated from the Church’s version of events. There are many others, some in modern times. Mooji, Papaji, Osho, Byron Katie, Eckhart Tolle, Jeff Foster, Adyashanti, are others who live still today or lived very recently. These realized masters are speckled throughout history, holding the torch of Truth so that at least some may see truly, while others follow blindly their own mythologies, not yet ready to see ultimate Truth. And there is no judgment in that statement: Truth is quite a painful thing to behold at first. But I take all the major religions to be nothing more than mythology.

Even Buddhism, which revolves around a historical enlightened master, today has more rules than Christianity. It has its own gods, its own afterlife, several versions of hell, etc. In short, much of it has fallen away from the Truth the Buddha uttered millennia ago. Yet there are still some who carry it on despite all of that.

Peace,
Brandon
On Jul 20, 2014, at 4:43 PM, Kendra. Schaber via Faith-talk <faith-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Hi readers! 
> These are all good questions. As a Pagan, I see the world as a church. That means that wherever we can get permission to practice our religion is fair game. We can practice it anywhere we choose as long as we get permission from the managers, landlords or owners if we want to burn candles for example because not all buildings allow it because of fire hazards. If we visit someone's house, we have to respect there faith and associated gods. When I go to visit my Christian friends, I respect their beliefs and their god while I'm there. My blindness doesn't affect my faith. The ADA doesn't affect my faith either. The ADA affects my blindness especially whenever signs are not in Braille.. I believe that we are all equals both as a blind person and as a Pagan. I also believe that there are many paths to eternity. In my book, if only one path was accepted, than everyone in the world wouldn't be happy with their religions or that everyone who didn't believe in the Christian God would be committing major crimes. Since I know a lot of people who are happy with their chosen paths, I am included here, I have always believed that if you are happy with your faith, than that is your correct path. We all have our rights to our aponions. However, sacred texts from all over the world needs to be respected and not criticized. You can read it and dissagree with it as long as you make a point to agree to dissagree. Pagans don't follow one set of sacred texts. We reconize that all of them are equal. All of them have truth to them. All of them are also followed by at least one group of people very much like the Christians follow the bible. I think that the questions are thoughtful but offensive to Christians because they also critasize their sacred texts. I have a question for the non-Christians on this list. Do you read, studdy and regard any sacred texts as the truth? I call sacred text scripture, legends, folk lore, dogma, mythology. As for me, I follow mythology, folk lore and legends. I believe that they hold a lot of truth. I do read scripture and agree with some of it. I read it with respect and reconize it as a sacred text. I read it to learn from so I can better understand what others follow and regard as sacred. I see it as a way to be better informed about the faiths of others so that whenever I meet them, I can jump in and make friendships or partnerships with them. I look at all angles as I read and take with me what I agree with as good teachings and the rest with a grain of salt and reconize that information as sacred to all who do agree with it. I would want the same done with my sacred texts. 
> Kendra 
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Jul 20, 2014, at 7:36 AM, debby phillips via Faith-talk <faith-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>> Hey Ashley, I think your topic is right on.  How does blindness affect our faith? And how does blindness affect how we deal with others of differing religions? Now, that may sound strange, so read me out.  First of all, I'll deal with my second question.  There are various cultures and faiths that view blindness very negatively.  How do people overcome those obstacles? As a dog user how do I deal with a cab driver who refuses to allow my dog in his cab because he is Muslim and believes that dogs are unclean? how do we deal with issues that affect our rights and someone's freedom of religion? For instance, if a law requires that I do something that I find reprehensible because of my faith, how do I deal with that?
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>> Then my first question, how does blindness affect my faith? Well, in one way it does not.  What I believe is in my heart, and I try to live out my faith every day, showing the love of Jesus to others.  And I want to be of service to others.  But what happens when people say, You can't do this or that because of your blindness.  As a Catholic, I wanted to enter a particular community of nuns.  (This was years ago and now I am married).  But they did not want to have "anyone with handicaps" in their community.  Good luck with that, when members get older and have disabilities.  Churches in the United States are not required to follow the rules of the ADA.  So what recourse does a person have? These are topics that I think are blindness-related, and certainly NFB related.  Thanks for reading.    Blessings,    Debby
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