All we care about is our head, the rest is fluid. And by that, I mean we care about keeping our heads, not necessarily as Sampson in the Bible whose hair was the source of his strength. Anyone can be my idea of a Sampsonist if a strong mind is paramount above all else...of course a beautiful head of hair is good too :)
The rest is fluid. Religions pretty much speak the same thing but in different ways; that there is a higher power, that there are things we simply must have faith in. Most of the time conflict arises because we explain that in different ways and often times we complicate matters by trying to instill our sense of values upon others.
There is no good reason why there are Protestants vs Catholics, Shiite vs Sunni, Reform vs Orthodox, except for the fact that we choose to value our words, our thoughts, our feelings above all others and then seek to dominate.
Stop.
Seek rather to understand what can be understood.
The rest is fluid. Religions pretty much speak the same thing but in different ways; that there is a higher power, that there are things we simply must have faith in. Most of the time conflict arises because we explain that in different ways and often times we complicate matters by trying to instill our sense of values upon others.
There is no good reason why there are Protestants vs Catholics, Shiite vs Sunni, Reform vs Orthodox, except for the fact that we choose to value our words, our thoughts, our feelings above all others and then seek to dominate.
Stop.
Seek rather to understand what can be understood.
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