Monday, October 10, 2011

Later Gater

When reading my peers blogs some of their free post elaborate on themselves and why they are taking the course. I will like to explain why I am in this course in this blog. I decided to participate in this course due to the passing of my father this summer. Since that moment I have yet to view life in the way I did before the incident. With that said I have not viewed religion in the same light as well. I have contemplated whether or not there is a God or if religion as a staple of my life was worth even the slightest of my time. I took this class so I could hopefully figure out whether I should believe in a nonexistent idea or if I should follow what is known as religion. I do not believe that the idea of religions should be a way of life for certain people nor do I believe in a lot if the gibber jabber that is found in text that support that religion but what I do believe in is the idea of an afterlife. While reading through the Psalms I realized that they deal with broad concepts that could be interpreted many different ways to suit many different people. So personally the Psalms are really more of a historical piece than one of religion. However, I do believe in the existence of an afterlife. This is in no part due to the Psalms but in many regards to my own accounts. See many people don’t and will never believe in a spiritual world, one in which deceased may contact the living. I personally believe in the spiritual world because of a run in I had with my father’s spirit. Call me crazy or something but I believe that my father reached across to me from the spiritual world. I had a conversation with him for two hours in my room. Many ideas and words were exchanged and that was the last of that. I thought for a second that somebody had slipped acid or something in my water. This was not the case though. Hopefully as the class rolls on I may find that religion in many regards should be worth the time but for now I believe in some sort of spiritual world but that doesn’t mean that I have to follow any one in order to believe in it. 
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  1. MartynOctober 16, 2011 at 6:55 PM

    Hello Antonio. I appreciate your post here on the reasons you took the class. I hope you will take the opportunity in this class to reflect on whatbother people are getting out of religion. As you now know, this is not so much about personal reflection as coming to understand the role that religion plays in people's lives. You mention a firm belief in the afterlife, but try your best to think critically about that belief in light of what we see in other cultures. I believe strongly that the best way to learn about ourselves is to have a critical and open view of others..

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  2. Antonio MelaraOctober 16, 2011 at 9:46 PM

    Thank you. I'll keep that in mind as we dive further into other religious beliefs and cultures.

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