Some Theologies I find interesting
Remember, even within Theologies, no one agrees 100% on everything that is
taught or discussed. These descriptions below, are very general, simple. and from the websites that these links go to.
There are many sects, denominations, interpretations and relationships within Theologies and its seekers, along with misconceptions, similarities and those that cross the thin lines we sometimes see between Theologies. ( For example see below: 'Gnostics' , 'Gospel of Thomas' & 'Hermeticism' ) I suggest you do your own searching, there is alot of information in books and on the web.
Anthroposophy
Belief / Description: To embrace a spiritual view of human beings along with the universe. It emphasizes the knowing, not so much faith.
Deism
Belief / Description Belief in God as revealed by nature and reason combined with a disbelief in scripture, prophets, superstition and church authority.
Non - Dualism
Belief / Description: Our real self and the Universal, Transcendental Self, is one and the same.
Gnostics
Belief / Description: Deep wisdom and knowledge of spiritual truth.
Gospel of Thomas
Belief / Description: "Jesus said: I am the light that is over them all. I am the All; the All has come forth from me, and the All has attained unto me. Cleave a (piece of) wood: I am there. Raise up the stone, an ye shall find me there".
Hermeticism
Belief / Description: An ancient spiritual, philosophical, and magical tradition. It is a path of spiritual growth.
Pantheism
Belief / Description: God is everything, present in everything. God is one with the world along with the forces and laws of the universe.
Saivism ( pronounced Shay- vism )
Belief / Description: One of the four main sects of Hinduism, where God is named and worshiped as Shiva., the destroyer and restorer of worlds .
Stregheria / Italian Witchcraft
Belief / Description: Called 'La Vecchia Religione' or in English 'The Old Religion', which consists of the worship of the creator of all. They believe that both animate and inanimate objects possess a spirit, which links us to nature and makes us part of the universe.
Theosophy
Belief / Description: The teachings of the Theosophical Society, that believe we are all part or everything and connected to everyone.
Unitarian Universalist
Belief / Description: Originated from the Christian religion, yet it has no official creed or dogma, where everyone is granted salvation.
Others
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"Here you'll find some information on philosophical issues that I have always found interesting. I've put up some suggested readings for each topic that will hopefully be a good starting point for anyone interested. I've also put up some of my own thoughts and impressions".
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"Secular Humanism is a way of thinking and living that aims to bring out the best in people so that all people can have the best in life. Secular humanists reject supernatural and authoritarian beliefs. They affirm that we must take responsibility for our own lives and the communities and world in which we live. Secular humanism emphasizes reason and scientific inquiry, individual freedom and responsibility, human values and compassion, and the need for tolerance and cooperation."
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"War, poverty, exploitation and oppression are products of the capitalist system, a system in which a minority ruling class profits from the labor of the majority. The alternative is socialism, a society based on workers collectively owning and controlling the wealth their labor creates.....Workers create society’s wealth, but have no control over its production and distribution. A socialist society can only be built when workers collectively take control of that wealth and democratically plan its production and distribution according to human needs instead of profit."
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" Do you believe in God? One way to answer that question is by asking, "Well, do you believe in gravity?"
You'll get a pretty puzzled look, but you can explain your answer this way: It simply doesn't matter whether or not you 'believe in' gravity, because it is an observable phenomenon. Everybody knows it exists. But, gravity can't be 'proven' in any scientific way. Scientist have never been able to detect a gravity particle or a gravity wave. They don't know how or why it works. It just does.
All living creatures have an energy within them that makes them appear to be alive. The most commonly accepted word for that energy is spirit. One can observe that living creatures possess spirit, and dead creatures don't. It's pretty clear that spirit enters a new creature some time after it is conceived and before it is born into the world. Exactly when that happens isn't terribly important to know, just that it does happen.
When a creature's body is no longer able to host the spirit, that energy leaves the body and returns to its source, wherever that is. Again, we don't have to know where the spiritual energy of living things comes from and goes to, just that does.
It is likely and rational that spiritual energy obeys the natural laws of the universe. Like other forms of energy, spiritual energy can neither be created nor destroyed, only transformed from one state to another. Since we can, indeed, observe the coming and going of spiritual energy, it is reasonable to conclude that a reservoir of that energy (probably in some transformed state) exists elsewhere.
Bingo! We choose to call that reservoir of spiritual energy the Universal Spirit. It is the collected and connected spiritual energy of all things that have lived or are living. Another name we sometimes use for that entity is God.
So, do we believe in God? No, we choose not to 'believe in' it, because we don't have enough information and, besides that, we don't need to believe in it. Rather, we have observed and concluded there must be a large source and repository of spiritual energy somewhere, and we choose to call that entity God.
We don't believe in God. We accept there must be a 'God' about which we know very little, and about which religions teach us even less."
