God and Devil

[OnyxCougar]

Originally Posted by Catwoman

But this is not a god that insists you go to a building we call a church, that punishes you if you don't sit and pray, that will send you to hell if you blaspheme, that commands respect and idolisation and answers a prayer.

You're talking about religion here. That's not what Jesus teaches.

Your guilt is unecessary - you can have all the fantastic things you think you have found in god without the ritual, the rules, the rubbish I call religion.

Exactly! That's religion. It's not a personal relationship with God. BIG difference. I have no guilt, I curse, I don't go to church (my husband does, but that's because he wants to, not because he feels he has to.), I have sex in other than missionary position, I don't confess to a priest, I don't walk around telling people they're going to hell. In short, I'm not religious.

But that doesn't mean I'm not Christian.

Think about it. How can something so huge, so overwhelmingly spiritual, rely on ritual and guilt?

It doesn't.