Apostates: what made you lose your religion?

[eleanorigby]

@cosmosdan

I can’t honestly say I try not to judge others. I do make judgement calls. I try hard to not be condemning in those calls. Being aware of how much I am in need of forgiveness for my own human shortcomings I try to reach out to others with forgiveness as well.
The joke at work is, “Let’s have a scavenger hunt and try to find a subject Dan doesn’t have an opinion on” The bastards. They know me to well.

Still, I think interaction and even confrontation is part of the growth process if we can do it with an awareness of our own need to learn. Not from a position of trying to win or control or prove we’re right, but just the desire to express ourselves honestly {and hopefully tactfully}with others. It’s in that interaction with all it’s joys and bumps and bruises that we see our own path more clearly and discover the areas we need to work on.

So onward and upward friend Doper.

Every last one of us makes judgements=-how else could we get through the day? IMO, it’s the final judgement that we cannot make. And we cannot place people in categories (not just racism, sexism etc–but stupid, skanky, upright, manipulative etc) and leave them there. Every single one of us is capable of growth–even Death Row inmates, even child molesters. If I didn’t believe that, I don’t think I would bother being here on this Earth. I will make a note of the book–I start grad school in 10 days-but I cannot get to it now.

Re the OP–I dunno if your question was answered–it appears that there is a wide swathe of experience and interpretation of spirituality and faith here–but you already knew that, no?
And I can’t believe I wrote that–“sage of old’s”–jeepers: sage’s of old… :o

[eleanorigby]

Apparently Sunday morning is not the time for me to be concise. I meant to say that I agree with you, Cosmodan.