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While rummaging through the last bits of my house, I found my poetry & sundry writings. On one scrap I wrote something I found kinda profound:

Religion is the absence of direct contact with Divinity

Hmn. I'm going to copyright that. :-)

Comments

[redcub.livejournal.com]

So what's the opposite?

I like that definition

[chillycub.livejournal.com]

I cam up with something similar a few weeks ago, but also decided that its antithesis was Spirituality... I'll quote it on my livejournal later on today for ya' :-)

Woof

[plaidninja.livejournal.com]

Heh
That would make Atheism a religion too wouldn't it.

[ombraorsa.livejournal.com]

It's already copyrighted under common law, but I can get you the forms and help you copyright it under statute if you want.

[loganbeary.livejournal.com]

Hey! I was going to tell him that!

Geez, beaten to being the smarty pants again. Drats!

[thegreenbear.livejournal.com]

and Faith is the balance derived from direct contact with Divinity.

[slothel.livejournal.com]

That reminds me of something from _Skinny Legs and All_ by Tom Robbins.

"Religion is an improper response to the Divine."

Wonderful book. Funny, and oh, so true. One of my favorite parts is "Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver. In fact, the person who maintains absolute standards of good and evil usually IS the maniac with the revolver."