My religion now includes omnism

[stvdv]

Yes, that's true, but I haven't. Hubbard was bogus. He wasn't inspired by anything but money. I'll give many people the benefit of the doubt, but not him.

I don't trust any (American) Preacher

I would not trust L.R.Hubbart

I live in Holland, and have "Preacher Trust Issues"

BUT

I wanted to check out Scientology Church myself

So, when I was 14.784km away from home, in Australia, I went to a Scientology Church, and checked them out. I wanted to be sure they were not able to track me down

 

[Truthseeker]

Even if L.R.Hubbart made 1 hundred horrible mistakes, but did 1 good thing, it is a false claim to say "he is all bad". The correct thing to claim is something like "he did 99% bad things".

I didn't say he was all bad literally, but I get your point. You know Baha'i so well, at least I think you do.

Abdu'l-Bahá tells us: --
To be silent concerning the faults of others, to pray for
them, and to help them, through kindness, to correct
their faults.
To look always at the good and not at the bad. If a
man has ten good qualities and one bad one, to look at the
ten and forget the one; and if a man has ten bad qualities
and one good one, to look at the one and forget the ten.
Never to allow ourselves to speak one unkind word
about another, even though that other be our enemy.
(Dr. J.E. Esslemont, Baha'u'llah and the New Era, p. 82)

I don't know him, but I spoke at least one unkind word.

 

[Martin]

I stumbled upon this and realized "that's me". Of course love is still central but omnism is an important part of the mix.

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Like perrenialism, omnism sounds more like wishful thinking than objective analysis. It's a very subjective view.
What is clear is that different religions hold different and sometimes contradictory beliefs.

 

[sun rise]

Like perrenialism, omnism sounds more like wishful thinking than objective analysis. It's a very subjective view.
What is clear is that different religions hold different and sometimes contradictory beliefs.

What is clear to me is those apparent different and contradictory beliefs are all on the surface. (Blind Men and the Elephant). When I go beyond the superficial theology and ritualistic differences, I find a common core.

For example these from Judaism's Kabbalah are the same sentiments I find in India and in Islamic sufism.

"Let the good in me connect with the good in others, until all the world is transformed through the compelling power of love.” Rebbe Nachman of Breslov

"HaShem is concealed from our minds but revealed in our hearts." The Zohar

"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One". The Zohar -

(That quote says "image" and others say "illusion" or "maya". The meaning is the same.)

 

[Wandering Monk]

I stumbled upon this and realized "that's me". Of course love is still central but omnism is an important part of the mix.

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When religion just allows you to make things up and make truth statements from them, why should anyone care what your beliefs are?

 

[stvdv]

I didn't say he was all bad literally, but I get your point. You know Baha'i so well, at least I think you do.

Abdu'l-Bahá tells us: --
To be silent concerning the faults of others, to pray for
them, and to help them, through kindness, to correct
their faults.
To look always at the good and not at the bad. If a
man has ten good qualities and one bad one, to look at the
ten and forget the one; and if a man has ten bad qualities
and one good one, to look at the one and forget the ten.
Never to allow ourselves to speak one unkind word
about another, even though that other be our enemy.
(Dr. J.E. Esslemont, Baha'u'llah and the New Era, p. 82)

I don't know him, but I spoke at least one unkind word.

Thanks for sharing. That was the impression I got from Baha'u'llah. Sai Baba told us the same (look at the good others do and be critical to the bad we do ourselves)

 

[sun rise]

When religion just allows you to make things up and make truth statements from them, why should anyone care what your beliefs are?

This is RF where we discuss things like this. If you don't care, fine. No one is insisting you should care.