Reply #161: Prayer as a solution . . .

[astral]

I would be afraid of people who ask God to do for us what we must do for ourselves. Praying for guidance in public office is kind of cool, if it is sincere. I shorted out on 'religion wants things to be in the crapper.' Religion is by definition not something that can 'want' anything.

God won't give us 'supernatural solutions.' You see we have to fend for ourselves on this physical plane, in the universe of 'cause and effect.' I don't think people in public office who believe in God expect 'supernatural solutions.'

The desperation of ancient superstitions. What a concept. There is much power and force in unseen things, and that includes the human mind. I feel like you're lumping a lot of things into one category. There are supersitions, which I define as things which are not true, and there are the other things about life on earth that we simply haven't been at this long enough to have figured out yet. Things we don't understand, things not yet 'proven' by 'science.'

I believe something that I don't think is very religious. "Ancient superstitions" may have the evidence that we used to know a lot more about things than we do now, and we have forgotten them and need to learn them all over again. The ancient knowledge of the healing powers of plants can be blurred into the category of ancient superstitions but the parts that we have discovered to be true are not superstitions anymore, are they?

(I see the need to try to start a different thread on this idea.)