I have had to learn to deal with what I have come to call "a spinning mind" all my life. This trait of "thinking Authentic Easton Stick Jersey , thinking, thinking" as some would define it is just who I am. For some reason, asking questions, wanting to know the origins or way of this or that is how I think and process my world and experiences. Theology and a lifelong interest in the Bible has also caused more problems than it seems to have solved for me. This is my experience. If it is not yours, I am happy for you.
I also have had to deal with anxiety in the last few years due to Authentic Drue Tranquill Jersey , what for me, are extreme life changes and that old mind spinning that projects me either back in to the past which kindles anger or depression or the future where anxiety lives. But since I am feeling that anxiety begin to rear it''s head even as I write, let''s talk about it and what might be a way to keep on moving.
We live in an anxious world and the powers that currently be seem to feel they are the cure but in fact seem more the cause of the problems and associated anxiety we all feel. Will we all die of bird flu? Will we all die of some plague accidental or deliberate? Is some idiot going to start a nuclear war because they can or have some skewed view of their role on the planet or alledged power? Have we elected (who really knows if "we" did?), people with agendas that are spinning us out of control and spending us into the poorhouse? Will we drown by tsuanami, fry in summer heat Authentic Nasir Adderley Jersey , cave in by earthquakes, be cast upon the plains by tornadoes, blown away by super storm hurricanes? Is our government turning into a dictatorship and was George Orwell correct, just a few years early?
My interest and experience is with religion gone bad. I know pastors who are building whole religious empires (at least in their minds) on the fear, guilt Authentic Jerry Tillery Jersey , shame and income they can generate by reading and preaching that they possess special knowledge and insight that the truly "called" need to understand. Churches and Denominations also do that. I have a deep resentment for these men and pure wonder at those follow them. The Church and ministry should heal the wounded, not inflict the wounds, but that is not always the outcome of how some churches and ministers end up affecting the people who trust them.
A simple test of a man''s message is to count how many times he uses the word "I" in his explanations. This is why I found it comforting to find that "I am the way, the truth and the light..." is also found on Eqyptian temples to the Sun God and may not have been spoke by the Jesus who also is alledged to have said, "why callest thou me good..." Me thinks the Church at a later date made Jesus say things that Authentic Mike Williams Jersey , in fact, he never did say, nor never could say. Just my less anxious feeling opinion. People who are "the only way" along with truth that is the "only truth" make , anxious.
Just yesterday I received a call from a former church member who asked if I had heard that so and so had told his followers to cut off all relationships with family, relatives and friends. This is a man who has found that he personally is spoken of in the Bible Authentic Derwin James Jersey , of all things. He is a self appointed Apostle type who believes that Satan will chase his small church into the wilderness and have to be hidden by God in a "place of safety" to protect them. Some have their mind on a place called Petra in Jordan where I am sure some entrepeneur type could start a chain of "Petra Huts" and make some bucks.:)
Anyway... he gets this perspective out of the book of Revelation, but then again, don''t they all. I would hope the proper authorities investigate this before it is too late for a very small number of true believers in this man''s skewed Biblical view of the world, but he is only one of scores of ill informed fundamentalists who have scary solutions for all of us, with them of course Authentic Joey Bosa Jersey , as our leaders in the true understanding of the true God and his true church.
I don''t know if he is sincere, ill or a con man, anymore than the other three or four I know who now feel they are one of the Two Witnesses spoken of, again in the book of Revelation, that book which has caused more people with mental illnesses to rise to the surface than any other in the Bible. This call Authentic Melvin Gordon III Jersey , I believe has ignited the anger over religion gone bad of my past and the anxiety caused by the unknowable future. I realise some of the anxiety comes from the personal fall out that has come from the results of my knowing it was long past time to get out of that which no longer inspired or informed me. Being a seeker at heart, that''s just how it works.
Religious anxiety is a beast of it''s own. Personally, and save for those moments when the chemistry of past experiences with religion gone bad is set in motion, I am free of it. I no longer worry about human constructs that are designed for control by fear, guilt and shame Authentic Philip Rivers Jersey , such as the false idea of hell or the biblical threats of the lake of fire for those that are not growing in the grace and mostly fake knowledge of some who profess to know. But I still want to know why the things of religion,
Christianity is a perfect breeding ground for anxiety as it places unachievable and unrealistic goals before people. "Become ye therefore perfect, as you heavenly Father is perfect" comes to mind. No challenge there. Christians have the absolute anxiety causing duty to be sure they have the right truth, follow the right teachings, listen to the right ministers who preach the scriptures Authentic LaDainian Tomlinson Jersey , the right way, or else.
This very fact of Christian life is THE reason there is so much division in Christianity. There are always men who are more sure of their own righteousness and closeness to God and the scriptures than the previous guy. They split churches in half seeking a following that will be more true to God than the last church they were in and it will happen again and again. Knowing this is why when I was told that
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