What Do You Find Beautiful About Your Religion?

eudaimonia · Mar 20, 2007

zombieharlot said:
Something that shows you the beauty of humanity, Mother Earth, the universe, or life in general.

So I ask, what is it about your religion that reflects beauty to you? If there is a picture or symbol that represents this, I encourage you to put it in your post.

Reflects beauty? I'd say it is the beauty of human potentials, especially in a visible show of what could be called security or self-esteem, and a love of life.

eudaimonia,

Mark

kaysquared89 · Mar 25, 2007

What to I think is beautiful about my religion?... The power of forgiveness. We are all known to sin, but in my faith, it isn't hard to get back on the right path. Nothing will be held against you because the Lord is kind and merciful, and that is what we are taught from the beginning of our religious education

Feathers in Hair · Mar 25, 2007

The reverence for compassion is what I find most beautiful about my religion. Also, the power in kindness. (As well as the power in recognizing yourself as a being worthy of respect.)

capslockf9 · Mar 25, 2007

. Fascinations increases when the ego disappears. Beauty is when divine love flows from you not to you. Awe is to gaze at God in everything.

astarath · Mar 25, 2007

the overwhelming power of the spirit when one walks every step with the law in their mind and christs love in their heart

UnTheist · Mar 26, 2007

Freedom is the beauty of my religion

Mr. Hair · Mar 26, 2007

Nothingness, and no-thingness.

*nods*

Ernestine · Mar 26, 2007

What I find beautiful is that everything it teaches can be supported scripturally, and not with just one scripture, but with a host of scriptures that are all in harmony with the teaching.

maro · Mar 27, 2007

zombieharlot said:
So I ask, what is it about your religion that reflects beauty to you? If there is a picture or symbol that represents this, I encourage you to put it in your post.

my whole religion is beautiful ,it helps me to see the beauty within myself and everything else

sampuna · Mar 9, 2015

It is beautiful in the sense that this system is much more all embracing.

Firstly, the founder claims to be none other than a human, not any special divine figure. His attainment is what each and everyone can attain.

The practices are beautiful as there is no fear of anything "unclean", save being constantly aware of the taints of greed, hatred & delusion.

This spiritual path also brings true liberation - freedom from fear of any supreme being, freedom from rites & rituals, freedom from sectarianism, freedom of expression.

Indeed a beautiful path

Aupmanyav · Mar 10, 2015

SenileAnimal said:
Freedom is beautiful and priceless.

It is beautiful and priceless, being an atheist in a theist family (and world) has not ever been a cause of botheration for me. I can hold my own. No one tells me what to do, I decide (of course, I am free to learn from my scriptures, they have nice suggestions).

Rival · Mar 10, 2015

The fact that my Religion is not as dogmatic as other Monotheistic Faiths, so I can use Philosophy more openly. I love Philosophy; I think it's a wonderful tool which modern man has much neglected. We do not hold stringently to any certain beliefs about creation or so on, so we can philosophise about these things, using our reason and experience to guide us. Our Scripture is mostly hymns and praises, not rules and regulations, so we can go to other folks for advice too and not 'Bible bash' using our own Holy Text.

Saint Frankenstein · Mar 10, 2015

It is the beauty of striving towards the realization and living out of the ultimate truth that I am the Infinite, Formless and Unbounded One and contain all possibility and power in me. That is the ultimate liberation - from all fear, pain, suffering and ignorance. That is all an illusion experienced for the sake of growth in an eternal drama. There is none above to submit to and no one beneath. There is only the Infinite I, beyond all dualities and constraints. That is true freedom. I have no "authority" to bow to and nothing to repress, oppress or suppress my mind, body or spirit.

arthra · Mar 11, 2015

The opening post asks:

So I ask, what is it about your religion that reflects beauty to you? If there is a picture or symbol that represents this, I encourage you to put it in your post.

When I was on pilgrimage years ago I saw the Shrine of the Bab illuminated at night.. Standing nearby was Hand of the Cause Ali Akhbar Furutan. I commented to him... "That's incredibly beautiful!" He replied "It's more than beautiful!"

Here's a photo of the Shrine at even...

Dream Candy · Mar 11, 2015

Even amongst my darkest hours I see beauty.

I'm given the chance to see, to feel, to learn, to die; no one wants to die.

I enjoy and believe in the complexity of beauty and the chaos of evil.

Aupmanyav · Mar 11, 2015

"A person becomes a Bahá’í by recognizing Bahá’u’lláh as the Messenger of God for this age and ..".
"A person becomes an Ahmadiyya by recognizing Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as the Mahdi".
"A person becomes a Mormon by recognizing Jesus as the Savior, Son of God and God, and Joseph Smith as a prophet".
"A person becomes a Muslim by recognizing Mohammad as the last messenger of Allah".
"A person becomes a Christian by recognizing Jesus as the Savior, the Son of God and God".
"A person ..".
It is a bit repetitious. Is it not?

Edited.

Katzpur · Mar 11, 2015

Aupmanyav said:
"A person becomes a Bahá’í by recognizing Bahá’u’lláh as the Messenger of God for this age and ..".
"A person becomes an Ahmadiyya by recognizing Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as the Mahdi".
"A person becomes a Mormon by recognizing Joseph Smith as a prophet".
"A person becomes a Muslim by recognizing Mohammad as the last messenger of Allah".
"A person becomes a Christian by recognizing Jesus as the Savior and the Son of God, and God".
"A person ..".
It is a bit repetitious. Is it not?

Actually, since Mormons are Christians, a person becomes a Mormon by recognizing Jesus as the Savior, the Son of God and God, and by recognizing Joseph Smith as a prophet.

Deidre · Mar 11, 2015

Deism isn't a religion per se, but what I like about it is it allows me to be me. No dogma. I think that without the crutch of religion, I'm able to learn more, grow more...without a set of rules to dictate how to learn and grow.

Unveiled Artist · Mar 12, 2015

Well, there are a few religions and practices that define me such as Catholicism, paganism, and Buddhism. There are a lot of perspectives that define me such as animism, atheism (to an extent), and pantheism. There are some cultural customs that influence me such as Individualist cultures and, to some extent, collectivist as well. All of these influence my spirituality. These things are beautiful to me.
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Catholicism

let me see devotion and participation in religious practices in a whole new light. I hear a lot online and surprisingly in person the bad rap against religion and even the word itself. However, the actual acts of being religious--being part of a religious community--is something I cannot replace. It is like your inner feelings of gratitude extend far beyond yourself it goes to others to--even those you don't even know and don't even live in your time period! Sacrifice is beautiful because it shows you must die to your Self (Buddhist thought as well) to live in communion with others. The way, in my experience, priest treat me is with respect and wanting me to grow in God at my pace not theirs and not the Church's. The charity involved, the way people treat each other (in my experience) cannot be replaced with words.

Paganism

is such a beautiful faith because it just makes sense. Neo-paganism, I'll call it since I am not polytheistic and have no ethnic faith religions, shows you that nature takes care of you. You devotion becomes that of living in communion with nature, with people, and with yourself. Personification of the Sun and Moon as actual beings is more seeing how they relate and affect us on earth. How the sun gives life and the moon orientation (such as control gravity). The "elements" may seem modern, but if you look outside, they are all there. You learn about yourself through the world and nature around you. The holistic lifestyle transforms a person into how the earth wants you to be not anything or one outside of Earth itself.

Buddhism

opened a whole new door to my train of thought. Believing in sacrifice to live was good but to think of myself as sin made me worse. Paganism is good but there is no communion between people and the stigma behind it makes it a solitary faith. However, Buddhism is about the Mind. When you get rid of the "I am sin" and the "I need to associate myself with something outside myself to be myself" and look within, you find different answers. By living those answers without Self you associate with nature (or God, or Houdini) more. Buddhism is not neo or modern as many make it out to be. To be a formal Buddhist, there are specific rituals depending on the sect one must go through. I like that. I also like the humility and compassion within the faith. I also like how a regular human, just like me, can go out into the world and offer change by telling people to look into themselves. I also like how these teachings are written down to relate to; so, one can find themselves not through the teachings as taught in Abrahamic faiths, but by the teachings you find yourself.

I like the cultural nature and formality with which Buddhism has. I find it is more "common sense" rather than something I need to learn or accept (Christianity) or try to relate something outside myself to define myself (neo-paganism; not all mind you).

Train of thought

Animist

What I thought about as an animist is about ancestral veneration. Spirits can be in different objects that the deceased have owned. They could possess someone as that person becomes a medium of that spirit. Different objects have different qualities about it. I always felt some objects you can be closer to the spirits you want to contact (preferable ones you know, of course)

Athiest

This was by revelation rather than choice. I just all of the sudden, in the middle of a Latin Mass, I saw the history of the Church, the communion of how people treat each other (both protestant and Catholic), how God is represented in scripture, and so forth and just realized, I don't believe in God.

Pantheism

I think this is a default. Everyone and living organic life are divine--alive and sacred. Yet, it is like the Trinity, many separate, all are one.

This is how religion and moral perspectives are beautiful to me. They shaped my life, my thoughts, and my relation with the Divine, with nature, with my mind, and relationships with others.

zombieharlot said:
We are all at a certain place in our lives. And where we're at may depend on the things around us, the people we've known, or the paths we've chosen. Each of us are different and unique from the rest. And as we explore ourselves and find a place where we fit religiously, there's bound to be something about it for us to reflect on. Something that shows you the beauty of humanity, Mother Earth, the universe, or life in general.

So I ask, what is it about your religion that reflects beauty to you? If there is a picture or symbol that represents this, I encourage you to put it in your post.

Katzpur · Mar 12, 2015

I'll tell you what I find beautiful about Mormonism. It is a fully ennobling religion. Its focus is on how much God loves us and how, though we have been separated from Him for a period of time, we are never far from His thoughts. From their earliest years, Mormon children are taught that God loves them. They are not taught that they were born depraved sinners, deserving of eternal punishment, but as His spirit sons and daughters, whom He wants to be reunited with more than anything. Mormons don't believe that God created us because He was bored, or needed some entertainment, or wanted to be sure to have a few billion souls around to worship Him forever. His reasons for creating us were 100% unselfish. Our scriptures say that "Man is that he might have joy." They also teach that His work and His glory are to bring to pass our immortality and eternal life. I love that I have been taught that we actually chose to experience mortality and that we did so with the knowledge that, although life might be hard, it would be worth it. We seek to live our lives in such a way that our eternal potential will be limitless. How great is that?

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