I'm looking for what to call myself. I have an innate feeling of belief in a higher self and love the persuit of things that bring awe and wonder. I would call that a belief in the spiritual with room to accept what science, metaphysics and my own mind have yet to discover. But even when I tried my best to believe in God I never found anything but a bad feeling in religion. I don't actively denounce God but I do denounce religion and feel it is the root of most evil. I believe as Sam Harris does that in this day where we can blow up the world so easily religion needs to go the way of all mythology. There are some nice stories and parables but none to be taken literally. As a child I was raised in the Church of religious science or Science of Mind. I'm grateful for this as it was a far more enlightened way than a regular religion.
I am the seventh generation grandaughter of a woman hanged in Salem. My anger with the church may be genetic.
Her blood boils in my veins. I believe very strongly that we need now to be very active in helping people shed these shackles of ignorance and EVOLVE or we are all doomed.
