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quick quote:
"Like a true believer, I am skeptical of all that I have said."
I'm a Christian, not a traditional Christian, but a Christian all the same. I like the Bible, I do think that its to word of God, but you have to understand about the origins. 'The Bible' has be translated and modified about a bazillion times. Things have been taken out, things have been added, all according to whatever the 'church' wanted to represent at any given time. Regardless, the true meaning remains pretty much unaltered, but its not the only text that I read in a spiritual manner. The Gospel of Thomas is a wonderful text that has been removed. The Apocrypha (i'm not a catholic so this was stripped from my KJV.) Also stuff like Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross (a good read about the mysticism of early Christianity) and the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu. Some of these texts are traditionally Christian texts, the others not so much.
I guess what I was trying to say is, whatever strengthens your understanding of yourself and your place in the universe is worth reading.
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-LIFE IS ABSURD-
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