bd4u.utah
2011-09-29 04:39:20 UTC
Detractors are motivated by personal reasons.
Their accusations are personally motivated,
and often controlled by their emotions. Their
convictions are real, but they are liable to say
anything to discredit, disparage, or defame both
the leaders, and the religion itself.
Fortunately, the US Law protects people from
persecution based purely for religious reasons.
As a result, the accusations, and allegations
by detractors often get pretty outlandish. They
will stop at nothing to get what they personally
believe is right. Detractors are highly motivated
people, it is often caused by past experiences
where they have experienced some kind of hurt
or pain during a religious experience. The object
of their pursuit may not even be the origin of
their pain. Yet their pain needs a release, and they
need an object of scorn for purposes of revenge
as a release mechanism.
It would be much easier to simply learn repentance,
and forgiveness. Or if incapable of that, you might
turn to "auditing" (scientology) instead.
Guilt is often associated with great emotional pain,
and it is often self inflicted. That is what Jesus meant in
the Lords Prayer. "forgive us our trespasses, as we
forgive those that trespass against us" It's a cleansing
effect, and you can't gain forgiveness until you first
learn to forgive. The subconscious mind won't allow
one without the other. By forgiving is how we feel worthy
of the same in return.
Oddly enough, when somebody else gets hurt, we often
blame ourselves for it. We feel guilty, and it is a very
repressive feeling. It weighs us down, and is like a great
burden. Somehow it needs to be released. Too often it
gets released in unhealthy ways. When repentance and
forgiveness is all that is necessary.
It does not repay the transgression, but it does make
the burden easier for our conscience to bear. It removes
the cloud of guilt, that obscures our vision and ability to
see things rightly.
Bruce Daniel
Their accusations are personally motivated,
and often controlled by their emotions. Their
convictions are real, but they are liable to say
anything to discredit, disparage, or defame both
the leaders, and the religion itself.
Fortunately, the US Law protects people from
persecution based purely for religious reasons.
As a result, the accusations, and allegations
by detractors often get pretty outlandish. They
will stop at nothing to get what they personally
believe is right. Detractors are highly motivated
people, it is often caused by past experiences
where they have experienced some kind of hurt
or pain during a religious experience. The object
of their pursuit may not even be the origin of
their pain. Yet their pain needs a release, and they
need an object of scorn for purposes of revenge
as a release mechanism.
It would be much easier to simply learn repentance,
and forgiveness. Or if incapable of that, you might
turn to "auditing" (scientology) instead.
Guilt is often associated with great emotional pain,
and it is often self inflicted. That is what Jesus meant in
the Lords Prayer. "forgive us our trespasses, as we
forgive those that trespass against us" It's a cleansing
effect, and you can't gain forgiveness until you first
learn to forgive. The subconscious mind won't allow
one without the other. By forgiving is how we feel worthy
of the same in return.
Oddly enough, when somebody else gets hurt, we often
blame ourselves for it. We feel guilty, and it is a very
repressive feeling. It weighs us down, and is like a great
burden. Somehow it needs to be released. Too often it
gets released in unhealthy ways. When repentance and
forgiveness is all that is necessary.
It does not repay the transgression, but it does make
the burden easier for our conscience to bear. It removes
the cloud of guilt, that obscures our vision and ability to
see things rightly.
Bruce Daniel