tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937807571393560668.post2304545994088237431..comments2023-03-21T04:39:46.871+00:00Comments on Living now...: Beliefs are fixedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937807571393560668.post-1252310021258237642011-07-12T05:36:27.235+01:002011-07-12T05:36:27.235+01:00Beliefs, experiences and practice...it seems to me...Beliefs, experiences and practice...it seems to me that beliefs as I have received them are always political in thrust: designed as you say to exclude questioning, to provide a controlling template for how we interpret experience and to encourage dependence on the belief-holders, which are church, state or lineage. Extreme acts of cruelty and neglect have done by the belief holders and are right now, be it in the name of Christianity, Islam or Judaism. <br />Within those power structures, which are socially divisive hierarchies, among the common people, human goodness and kindness survives.<br />In fact, the reality is that the beliefs are not as fixed as the holders maintain - what they say about the beliefs in the face of science and the evidence of suffering (at the hands of a supposedly all-powerful and all-loving God, shifts.How they deal with those who question them remains puntitive.<br />So I propose a change in the title: "beliefs are tools of control and authority".<br />Bah!George Jisho Robertsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17277027072513185050noreply@blogger.com