Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
1 min readMar 28, 2023

--

and conflating true spirituality with religion

My favorite quote on the subject was phrased by God itself:

"Religion cannot stand Spirituality. It cannot abide it. For Spirituality may bring you to a different conclusion than a particular religion — and this no known religion can tolerate. Religion encourages you to explore the thoughts of others and accept them as your own. Spirituality invites you to toss away the thoughts of others and come up with your own."― Neale Donald Walsch, The Complete Conversations with God

I go into greater detail here https://medium.com/know-thyself-heal-thyself/spirituality-redefined-ff45cb53eaf2 and here: https://medium.com/know-thyself-heal-thyself/how-do-you-define-god-9898492eae9

As for the son of god concept by which I think you mean the absurdity of the immaculate conception, in my https://medium.com/promptly-written/lets-talk-about-the-egotistical-human-b-l-sh-t-about-enlightenment-7091502e9fe3 I wrote: "Raised Jewish, concepts of Christ used to present a struggle to me. Immaculate conception — give me a fucking break. Mary and Joseph were husband and wife — no chance on God’s green earth she was a virgin. Does that mean the conception was not immaculate? Does that mean Jesus was not the child of God? No. Both are true. It takes more than a sperm entering an egg to create a life. Soul must enter and use its energy to trigger the cascade of cell division that follows. Every soul is part of God. Every single human being, every living being in the universe, is a child of God. Every conception is immaculate!!!"

--

--

Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Written by Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Living 17,043rd human life. I am Marcus (universal name) or you may call me Greg; a deep thinker; an explorer of ideas and the mind.

No responses yet