The Golden Rule

Kathie, thank you for your kind reply, and I will investigate that website you offer, I am interested in all that I am given with and from that loving spirit.

Peace and thanks.

Also in your post you mention that you have always had a belief in something better than what you were being told about God. Here is another quote from explorefaith.org that I really like which talks about that "knowing" that many of us have experienced:

"In one sense of the word know, we can't know that Christianity, or any of the religions, is true in the sense of being able to demonstrate it. One use of the word "know" in the modern period is something you can verify. In that sense, we can't know.

But we can take seriously a different kind of knowing. It's a very ancient kind of knowing. The ancients called it intuition. And, unfortunately, in our world, intuition is seen as kind of a weak thing. It's associated with women's intuition, a vague hunching or something like that. But the ancient meaning of the word "intuition" or “intuitive knowing” is direct knowing, a knowing that's not dependent upon verification. A synonym for intuitive knowing would be mystical knowing. There are people in every culture who have had what they regard as direct knowing experiences of God or the sacred. That kind of knowing is possible, and for me personally, it's that direct knowing, that intuitive knowing, that is the most persuasive soft data for affirming that God or the sacred is real."

Dr. Marcus Borg

We were sending at the same time! I added another bit from the same website. I'm finding it to be very helpful and inspirational! I'm so glad I found it.

This is a great topic Kathie. I wish I had seen it earlier instead of belaboring the same points on some other threads. I have just read your intro but am going to read the other posts and will check out your link.

Beautiful!

I think he was deeply disturbed by the same types of corruption that are evident today; the misuse of power, placing one belief above another, and the never ending list of intolerances that we see in modern society.

This may seem silly Kathie but between the hypocrisy from many of "faith", the negativity affiliated with God (going to hell), the selective rejection of science by some, and all the sheer silliness that I hear centered around the word God, I cannot even hear the word God anymore without cringing. Yet I have heard some very wonderful things here too, even things that people have brought forth from the Bible that take the perception of God out of the idea of something that has been made into a human parent and more into a realm of something invoked, the universe. It is something that has a ring of truth for me. Did that make sense?