Henotheism! (Polytheism with a supreme Godesshead (or Godhead, but not).
I didn't create anything except the patterns of my life.
When shit goes wrong in my life, it's probably my fault.
When shit goes wrong in the world, it's probably humans.
I don't feel compelled to be spiritual. I bloody well enjoy it.
I don't think the Powers that Be compel a person to be spiritual, just so long as the person doesn't going around mucking up the planet or other people.
Essentially, I go with something Plato said, "If you think it. It exists." Now, maybe that's taken out of context, but even having been said...
None of this mandates that I have belong to a religion, however. Religion has a definition in the dictionary, but ultimately it's not something definable. Shit, atheism, because it really, honestly and truly is a belief, could be said to be a religion. Hinduism, is not one religion, in fact it's generic label for a million of different traditions based on the Vedas, Rig Vedas, etc belonging to the Aryan tribes plus, the indigenous religions of that area. Buddhism doesn't really have any gods according to Sidhartha (the Buddha that founded the tradition as we know it), but he stated that if people wanted to believe in them they could. (And when Chan (Chinese) and Zen (Japanese) Buddhism came around, the various sparks off of them created gods out of the various bodhisatvas. (That's a spot where some one could say that people actually created gods.)
Religion is there if you like it. Spirituality is there if you want to explore it. Otherwise, bugger all.
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By the time you're twenty-five they will say you've gone and blown it. By the time you're thirty-five I must confide you will have blown them all
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