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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsReligion when practiced as intended is really nothing more than meditation.
It's about making yourself a better person. It's definitely NOT about the pose you strike when something in your life goes as you had hoped it would... immediately OR long term.
Meditation, in some instances, is shedding whatever outside influence might affect your upcoming performance and relying upon your own inner strength to lead you to the finish line.
Religion, in some ways, is nothing more than shedding whatever outside influences could possibly affect your upcoming performance, and relying on your adherence to a set of values to lead you to the finish line.
Both rely on your own inner strength.
Mariana
(14,861 posts)Skittles
(153,214 posts)nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)tecelote
(5,122 posts)Own it.
No excuses.
raccoon
(31,127 posts)ChosenUnWisely
(588 posts)but I don't see it stopping anytime soon considering for oh the last say 6000 years or so the religious have been killing in the name of religion/god and it still happens today everyday all over the world.
Hari Seldon
(154 posts)when administered as intended.