Spiderman
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When I read parts of the Bible and Quran I just get angry because it goes against my conscience and strikes me as cruel and bigoted.
Yet Jesus, Mary, Fatima, Muhammad, deceased Muslims, Solomon, David, Jewish victims of the holocaust, Christian Saints, are all Kami I pray to.
I don't feel I can go on getting grace from the Kami I love if I keep bashing them.
I love the Kami, I just can't stand bigotry and torturing people, which is in the Old, and new testament speaks of people tossed into a lake of fire where there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
And Jesus said if you don't eat his flesh and drink his blood you have no life in you. What does such a statement say about Jews? It seems very counterproductive to unifying believers and divides people, and leads to harsh judgments that people are unsaved for not belonging to a sect.
But, I can't keep getting grace from God if I keep bashing him, I feel.
But Israel does mean "contender with God". Jacob became Israel by fighting with God all night and winning. He also stole his blessings from Esau by lying, deception, and breaking God's rules with the scheming of naughty Rebecca , so that the twelve tribes and Messiah descend from his bloodline.
Esau was Isaac's favorite. Jacob was Rebecca's favorite. The woman trumped the will of the superior of the household , by being naughty and manipulative, pulling the right strings, and deception.
It makes me wonder if we fight with God and break his rules, if we can receive blessings and graces from God, as Jacob did, if we fight the right way and break the rules just right.
But I have failed the Kami. I was hoping Shinto could be a common bond other Religions could have that brings unity. All Religions that believe in Spirits , Angels, or God , believe in Kami , and they already embrace the only infallible Shinto teaching.
I'm not bringing unity by insulting Abrahamic faiths. My goal was to get people to follow charity and their conscience above ancient text or Dogma.
Shinto I like , because we can't argue over what the founder taught or did, because no one knows who it started with. There are not inerrant Kami-inspired Scriptures to interpret and argue over.
It leaves us a lot of room to follow our conscience and individual path in Shinto.
But still, the Prophets and Kami of Abrahamic faiths, are still Kami I need to love and please, even if I don't like their behavior.
I keep trying not to bash them, but I sin every day. My faith is a mix of Shinto, Catholicism, Egyptology, Taoism, Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Tengriism, Native American Shamanism, in the sense that I try to take the good virtue , some ethics, some morals, some disciplines, some philosophies, from each, and venerate the Kami behind those forces , and the Kami who practiced those faiths while alive.
Anyhow, do you sin daily?
Yet Jesus, Mary, Fatima, Muhammad, deceased Muslims, Solomon, David, Jewish victims of the holocaust, Christian Saints, are all Kami I pray to.
I don't feel I can go on getting grace from the Kami I love if I keep bashing them.
I love the Kami, I just can't stand bigotry and torturing people, which is in the Old, and new testament speaks of people tossed into a lake of fire where there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
And Jesus said if you don't eat his flesh and drink his blood you have no life in you. What does such a statement say about Jews? It seems very counterproductive to unifying believers and divides people, and leads to harsh judgments that people are unsaved for not belonging to a sect.
But, I can't keep getting grace from God if I keep bashing him, I feel.
But Israel does mean "contender with God". Jacob became Israel by fighting with God all night and winning. He also stole his blessings from Esau by lying, deception, and breaking God's rules with the scheming of naughty Rebecca , so that the twelve tribes and Messiah descend from his bloodline.
Esau was Isaac's favorite. Jacob was Rebecca's favorite. The woman trumped the will of the superior of the household , by being naughty and manipulative, pulling the right strings, and deception.
It makes me wonder if we fight with God and break his rules, if we can receive blessings and graces from God, as Jacob did, if we fight the right way and break the rules just right.
But I have failed the Kami. I was hoping Shinto could be a common bond other Religions could have that brings unity. All Religions that believe in Spirits , Angels, or God , believe in Kami , and they already embrace the only infallible Shinto teaching.
I'm not bringing unity by insulting Abrahamic faiths. My goal was to get people to follow charity and their conscience above ancient text or Dogma.
Shinto I like , because we can't argue over what the founder taught or did, because no one knows who it started with. There are not inerrant Kami-inspired Scriptures to interpret and argue over.
It leaves us a lot of room to follow our conscience and individual path in Shinto.
But still, the Prophets and Kami of Abrahamic faiths, are still Kami I need to love and please, even if I don't like their behavior.
I keep trying not to bash them, but I sin every day. My faith is a mix of Shinto, Catholicism, Egyptology, Taoism, Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Tengriism, Native American Shamanism, in the sense that I try to take the good virtue , some ethics, some morals, some disciplines, some philosophies, from each, and venerate the Kami behind those forces , and the Kami who practiced those faiths while alive.
Anyhow, do you sin daily?