Religious Reflection Sunday At Sundown
One Sunday at sunset.
This weekend was especially heavy, especially for alcohol. On Friday I joined some friends (well, they were all women) and we remembered moments of high school, and while I digested one beer after another until losing the account, and they were at a good price. The next day I ended up with a terrible crude, I attended my brother-in-law's birthday for a while because he could not stand the raw, I decided to sleep all afternoon and in the night my cousins came and another excuse to follow her. After our failed attempt to enter the Old Jack's, we decided to go to the Maoma, and ended the evening with some degrees of whiskey on top. I did not turn on the computer since Friday and now I am on a Sunday of wakefulness, of replenishment, to detoxify my body (Going, today Sunday was not as strong as the Saturday's) so that it will be full on Monday.
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The Bible
But I have also given myself time Sunday to reflect on some things about religion (and that is that it is always associated with Sunday with religious practices). I confess something but I have read a "light" version of the Bible, something like a Bible for young people, which has no more than 400 pages, is digestible and is already interpreted (because there they say that it is not just to read it, but to know how to interpret it). This version of the Bible will help me to know a little more about the religion that they instilled in me (which I would not dare to say that I profess because it is not true) knowing the old and the new testament even if it is by above
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But despite my large number of doubts about the Bible, I do not stop accepting that seen as a philosophical book is a great book. When I go to mass (that's like 4 times a year) and I listen to the readings and the gospel, I can see that even when listening to words from a non-religious point of view there is a teaching, there are passages that are fruitful for the human being. The phrase "you will love your neighbor as yourself" comes to me, a simple but great phrase that every human should apply in their life. Just as there is talk of Kant, Nietszche, Hobbes or Rousseau, the biblical writings should be seen as a contribution to the philosophical task. The same could be said of other religious books such as the Koran, for example.
It's true, I'm not a theologian or a Bible scholar. I am nothing more than a neophyte who is taking his first "baby steps" trying to interpret what religious documents say, but those first steps if I have left crossed feelings of admiration, and at the same time of disbelief before the postulate in the Holy Book . The next step would be to read the whole Bible and know how to interpret it to know it more thoroughly and dispel the many doubts that I have (or rather, fill more of them). I think that religion is too complex to understand at first sight, and I think that in order to take a firmer and more coherent stance towards it, it would be best to first study it and get to know it. But ultimately I also believe that the belief in a God or a religion has more to do with faith than with reason. In all the religious texts that I have read it seems that this "rational cable" is missing in its arguments, which could only be substituted by the "cable of faith". The bad thing is that I'm not giving myself that much faith, I'm a very rational and logical person and I think that has turned me away a lot from religion.
Faith in a God.
The need to believe in a God is something very strong. In fact I think that if there is one for a simple question, how is it possible that the world we live in could have been realized with such perfection that goes far beyond human understanding? The possible answer that I see is that there is a superior entity that created everything. For something almost all human beings have believed and believe in a God, for some is Zeus, for others it is Allah, the Sun, or simply God. Because while in some skepticism makes us doubt some issues of religious doctrines, the "rational" and the "logical" sometimes falls short, because man is in full study of the world through science and is still far from knowing everything (I dare to say that you will never get to know that everything).
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That need to believe in a God and in a beyond understood it with what happened with my great-grandfather. He was a military man and a freemason. The Freemasons (as far as I know) have the freedom to believe in a God, but their practices are not aimed at finding one; also for historical reasons they have been fighting with the Catholic Church. We saw it in Mexico in the War of Reform between the conservatives (represented by the high hierarchies of the Church) and the liberals (almost all part of the Masonic lodges) and even in these times is still seen in Mexico and the world. What I wanted to tell about my great-grandfather, is that on his deathbed, he asked that they bring a father to confess, for which this father had to leave in civilian clothes since in the waiting room of the hospital there were several Freemasons welcoming my dying great-grandfather. I think it's natural because Freemasonry does not have that "transcendental" force if they have several religions. Although Freemasonry is governed by symbols and signs, it is more "rational" and "logical" than what religions instruct (besides being very eclectic when taking elements from many ideologies), then, on the deathbed , when it is assumed that one is going to move to another world, the rational and the logical do not manage to give an answer to what follows, it is where the human being seizes the faith.
The case of my great-grandfather is not the only case of a Mason who asks to be confessed on his deathbed, I have heard from several who have decided so.
I do not believe that this phenomenon is necessarily due to the fact that people end up choosing "the true religion", but rather they end up choosing the one that satisfies more their need for spiritual transcendence to know what is beyond, and it is clear that the Church Catholic provides more elements to meet this need. If it were for the first thing I said, also the Muslims and Buddhists on their deathbeds would ask a Catholic father to confess them before leaving this world and in reality in those countries where those religions are practiced, it does not happen that way. I suppose that with some of the Freemasons of the Arab countries (I do not know that so many Freemasons exist there) they will end up succumbing to the Muslim religion, because it was the one that was inculcated, or of which they had more knowledge.
Well, I have already extended a lot, I think that while I wrote this text (it took me more than an hour to do it) I got off even if it was a little bit the weekend raw. I hope you give your opinion on these concerns I have, because I would like to hear different points of view on the religious stories I have told, which dealt with the Bible and faith in God. A greeting.
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