A conversation with... God?

My dearest Snowbrush,

Well Geez i thought ma ears was a burnin'! (Re) See Snow's latest post & comment section HERE

Believe it or not Snow i am a lot like you... For i too have fought hand over fist for my 'belief system' (although i can't say i have ever been fortunate enough to find a broad enough label for my particular flavor)... And nothing have i ever settled upon within this my particular spiritual understanding without fine print scrutiny and blood sweat and tears over my 47yrs... i too (as many before me) have done time with my inner demons, for it comes with the territory i believe in the human search for meaning... My spiritual point of view has not come lightly either for i also expect proof of the highest order and am constantly questioning it... For my search for enlightenment i believe lies within the evolution of my Spirit and as such is always an ongoing project and i am always the student...Perhaps this conversation should be more about do we have a Spirit than do we have a God? (Though i believe them to be one and the same) The one thing i don't do with folks though these days is the 'church battle' for in my understanding it is simply horses for courses and for many is it the tool that has been used (and misused) in the search for human comfort from fear... And why not have a 'place' for we all need at times such crutches and vehicles with which to question and learn and sometimes hide? But i feel sad when this becomes so corrupt and controlling that the flavor of religion does too... But like i said i personally try not to use 'labels' when it comes to matters of the Heart because i think of them as churches, in that they can be confining and restricting and tend to bind one to a particular set of religious rules... i have always been and will always be on the individual, internal search for self , and so i believe that this world be my 'church' which reflects that which lies within me, for i believe that we are all energetically connected... i don't believe in Guru's in the sense of worshiping someone on a pedestal (although i suspect things would seem much simpler that way!) but still i am happy to sit and spend time at the feet of those i consider to be Wise Teachers... Who sometimes i might add end up being my own children and even those i sometimes perceive (against my best judgment) to be my foes! Funny though that the subject of misinterpretation of written words should arise here too (in your comments section) as recently i inadvertently found myself in the middle of an almost family drama due to an email that i wrote that was perhaps misinterpreted... So easy it is, i learnt, can this happen if you assume the reader to be on the same page as you so to speak! (And you think i would remember the old adage that if you assume, then you make an ASS of U and ME! sighhh...)



And so on the subject of this/your comment :

"...the only people whom Christ consistently reviled were religious people, and the only people he consistently befriended were sinners. Of course, most of the religious people I know don’t appear to read too much into that "

... My take on this is that we are taken back to the subject of misinterpretation of text again for the whole idea (as i understand it) was that Jesus understood that the church itself had become corrupt, a Guru in all the negative sense of the word and that people had become blinded by their superior judgment of each other... He, i believe, always endeavored to lead by example... But honestly and truly how will we ever know the whole Truth of The Christ if 'The Church' has destroyed all original meaning and stolen and corrupted so much written of the man's WHOLE life from the pages of the Bible anyway!?!



...and well i guess this in a round about way brings me back to my original question of you that was
"What is an atheist?" to a clearer question of...
My dear Snowbrush " Why do you label yourself so?"

<3