Spiderman
Veteran Member
Shinto has no known founder, there is only one Doctrine and that is that spirits and God exist, there are no inerrant scriptures, therefore there is nothing to fight over.Nonsense Scriptures?
Does " Shintopathic " has Scriptures, please. Don't they, please?
If not, they are deprived of the Source of ultimate Truth. Agree?
Right?
If yes, then please quote for the nonsense in it, please. Will one, please?
Regards
In shinto, you are to pray to God and wise benevolent spirits, to guide your conscience, mind, heart, and soul, and do what you feel inspired is the wise, the right thing to do.
Because I believe torturing people, cursing descendants of people for what their parents do, slavery, genocide, and committing violence against children, babies, and pregnant women, all of which is supported in Scripture, I no longer see scripture as being without error.
As a shinto, I can believe in god, believe that there are good and wise spirits and angels that can help me be a good person, I can follow my conscience, I can enshrine souls in heaven, love them, bless them, love others, and do charitable deeds.
I don't have to see God as a jealous, wrathful, bigoted, hateful god, like the one in scripture. I have the Liberty to follow my conscience and do what is right and avoid what is wrong.
I believe torturing even bad people is a bad thing. I believe torturing people for all eternity is the worst crime I have ever heard of, the most disgusting thing I have ever heard of!
I do believe there is a time where self-defense makes it okay to kill! When evil regimes like Isis are taking over and crucifying people, cutting off heads, cutting off hands and feet, stoning people to death, burning people, and doing things like that, the best thing you can do is quickly put them out of their misery.
So I'm not entirely a pacifist, but even in situations like that, I don't believe it is okay to torture anybody. Usually really mean people are already very tortured as it is, and it doesn't accomplish anything by torturing them more, or torturing them for eternity.
I don't believe it is okay to curse descendants of somebody, because of their sins, like the Bible promotes.
God has given me a conscience to tell what is right and wrong. My conscience tells me there is much in the Bible that is very wrong, and God does not want me to go against my conscience and do what I believe to be evil, or support what I believe to be evil.
I believe God finds it a lot more noble, Courageous, admirable, and integrity, if I try to follow my conscience and fight him when he is being cruel, then the to bend the knee out of fear , and submit to what I find is cruel and mean.
If the Bible says that God killed the firstborn of Egypt for crimes that they didn't commit, and God committed genocide and killed babies, children, pregnant women, and innocent people, putting them to the sword, drowning almost the entire Earth, and that David took a census which God didn't approve of, and God killed 70,000 people with pestilence over a census, and God does a bunch of things which my conscience tells me are evil in scripture, I believe that God wants me to follow my conscience and fight what is evil in our world, and point out what is wrong in the scriptures, so that people stop using the Bible as their final and ultimate authority.
It is an ancient outdated text. There is nothing in the Bible that says the Bible is the final authority on anything. People need to move on, and recognize that an ancient text no longer applies in many places.
The Bible starts a lot of conflicts, a lot of bigotry, a lot of hatred, a lot of division, a lot of violence, a lot of arguments, and promotes some things that are toxic , cruel, barbaric, hateful, condemning, judgemental, mean-spirited!.
The loving thing to do is point out what is wrong with it. There's a lot of good things in the Bible too. I encourage all people to pray that God would inspire them to have a strong conscience, be filled with the spirit of god, be guided by god, follow their hearts, follow their conscience, follow the golden rule.