• FearMeAndDecay
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    Atheists and Buddhists aren’t christians? I was gonna say do you mean religious, but atheists aren’t religious either

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      Atheists can be christians by believing in the structure provided through it, atheism is just not believing in god.

      I do not believe in a greater being, I believe in man. Even Jesus himself did not claim to be of god but of man, and that he was purely a messenger.

      Buddhist’s can be primarily Christians as well, however they adhere not to just one guide of knowledge. That’s the weakness with my experience in western life, I was born christian. I saw buddhism as a differing way of life, while it really is more structural and philosophical to me than spiritual.

      Dramatization and symbolism is lost when talking about something as complex as religion.

      The bible itself is a collection of texts, your spiritualism and religion doesn’t end there. It is something you live, endure, question, and eventually absolve yourself of through determination. It’s more just a guise for talking about our mortality, consequences, acknowledgements, and the thereafter.

      So in the wake of death, your own or any you love, you have to imagine them. You will miss them and wish it were true, in it you will find your spark. You will awaken the ability to see the suffering, phantoms and demons everyone carries. However in such suffering you will savor the most delicate of kindness, appreciate the little passing moments.

      In that you awaken the sharingan royalty free eyeball to see something you couldn’t before. I don’t think it is god, rather passion for the nectar of life. Regardless of hardships.

      For context. Catholic raised. Buddhist by 11. Sikh by 18. Eventually found Sri Ramakrishna’s teachings in a little free library this year. All while atheist - and now I question that, as this book allowed me to believe something I never could.