I thought parents just gave kids drugs to calm them down.Conservative legal group challenges 'mindfulness' in schools
On the one hand I think its strange how mindfulness has become a fad, what Ron Percer calls "McMindfulness". On the other hand, it does make conservative evangelicals seem picayune to object to something that is devoid of obvious religious content (and I don't think "connecting to the universe" is a religious concept, even if it was removed from the curriculum in response to feedback). It's almost as if their idea of being a human being never includes paying attention to anything except their Bibles and religious dogma.
I commend you for this. I'm sure that these people have appreciated your attention.
I thought parents just gave kids drugs to calm them down.
One pill makes you larger
and one pill makes you small
and the ones that Mother gives you
don't do anything at all
- Jefferson Airplane, White Rabbit
I think being a Christian is about following Jesus, not metaphysical propositions.
Divorcing following Christ from affirming the truth about Him is not following Christ at all, but this is probably a matter best served in another thread.
Truth is found in life.
I like that idea of a "personal relationship" better than the dogmatic religionist who insists they alone are have the Truth just because they have ancient words and texts and a good story about them. A real relationship, even if it's just with a figment of your imagination, is potentially alive to the present.
And Christ is both the Truth and the Life.
But why does me (or anybody) being a "good guy" require confessing any particular doctrine about his relationship to platonic metaphysical notions of divinity?
Jesus himself never seems to have taught such a notion, at least according to what can be known through humanistic accounts of studying the Scriptures. So why should I trust the authority of a small church in Africa to guide my life for me?
If it would bother you less, I will identify as "non-Christian" or unorthodox. It's not sweat off my brow.
Who said anything about "being a good guy"? And the Creed talks about His relation to the Father. The Father is not a "platonic metaphysical notion of divinity".
It's not "a small church in Africa", it's literally all Christian churches. That's how the Creed can function as the statement of faith on this very omni-confessional website in the first place.
It's the background in which debates about Jesus divinity took place, and many of the Nicene Fathers wrangled Greek philosophical categories to declare what was, and was not heretical.
The Nicene Creed is a symbol of that.
Which is why some churches (Quakers, Baptists, Restorationists/Disciples of Christ... many Charismatics and Pentecostals of all sorts) do not require assent to a creed.
They believe faith or salvation rests on something more intimate to the human person than a symbol created by men and more or less imposed on the whole known world through threat of violence.
There are many Christians in the world who do not require assent to creeds. That is a fact.
And these people have what to do with anything? When I want oats for breakfast, I'll ask the Quakers. When I want solid Christian theology, I'll certainly look elsewhere.
Really? Like where? Catholics? Lutherans?
Christians agree on a set of core doctrines.
Hence I didn't say ALL doctrines and teachings but CORE.Is that why there is a Catholic Church, an Orthodox Church, and too many to count split Protestant churches because Christians agree on a set of core doctrines? Is salvation eternal or conditional? The answer seems to depends on which Christian you ask and the version of the Bible they prefer to use.
Based upon scriptures & researching Quakers origins, beliefs etc... you think its the same?Really? Like where? Catholics? Lutherans?
Maybe its the sitting in silence.
Hence I didn't say ALL doctrines and teachings but CORE.
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