Religions and Free Will
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The Age of Aquarius: Dawn or Sunset?
“Humanity today faces two possibilities: collective suicide or the biggest spiritual awakening that the world has ever known.” This was the way OSHO - one of the greatest masters of the modern world – spoke, following the thoughts of those philosophers and scientists of the past, which just like him, observed the dawn of the third millennium.
Today we realise the daily slow agony that humanity inflicts on itself and how what could have been the “great awakening” is actually becoming a new anesthetic, this time with the brand of the “new age”.
Even most of the people who, animated by their own expectations of the Age of Aquarius, have created new spiritual currents or social experimentations got stuck in the sterile dialectic of the politics or of the usual market economy.
What is left other than the religious and secular fanaticism? Other than the indifferent consumers, which are used and addicted? What remains besides the illusion, after that another potentially authentic spiritual feeling has been betrayed, led astray, and exploited?
Nevertheless, there are still people who do not want to stop believing, having faith and insisting.
With Will and Love.
OMM
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Khaled is right. And I can add, why would God the almighty power in the universe need puny little Man on a tiny little rock called Earth to worship him?? Why is that so important to God that it is almost insinuated that he cannot exist without prayer and worship of Man? why does God Almighty worry so much about how man behaves, what he eats or what he does with his time? And that Man must do as God says at all time or else burn for eternity?
Why does the all powerful God need Man to do things on his behalf, such as punish other humans or enact the so called laws? If he so powerful why doesn't he do it himself instead of trusting the bad judgement of humans?
if God created man in his image, then is God a limited being, with limited powers and limited intelligence? And if we are made in his image, is God greedy, evil, cruel and sadistic? Because humans are all those things. Let's give God (the conceptual power of creation) the benefit of the doubt here... perhaps something else created us humans in genetic terms... After all, in the holy books, the creation of man is done by a persona referred to as "We", just like Khaled pointed out. This is found in the Quran and the Judeo-Cristian tradition. Who is "We"?
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