Zen Gnosticism & Other Beliefs

  

"...To let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment.   

Those who cannot do it will be destroyed on the lathe of heaven."  

 Chuang Tse: XXIII (3.0) 

 

My favorite quote again.  Most religions try too hard to answer too much, answering with certainty when they haven't a clue what the answer is.   Rather than deny other religions, Zen Gnosticism includes all human knowledge from all times, all places, all races.   No system has all the answers, so Zen Gnosticism leaves room for the unknown.  Zen Gnosticism is content to shrug and accept that we don't know nor should the drive for knowledge be allowed to push us to madness.

As a Zen Gnostic I think of religion like the children's stories humans have always told to teach important life lessons.   Religious myths and folk beliefs are treasured cultural archives, but humans wrote them, all of them.  Can't humans be influenced by God to transmit His will via human communication?

Well, of course GDW can influence us, but how do we tell the difference between the genuine inspired word of the Divine and a malignant narcissistic?  Our species has a long history with religious delusion that has resulted in bigotry, hypocrisy, and the worst abuses ever recorded.  

Being skeptical of one's beliefs is healthy.  It does not mean you lack faith.  It means you do not lack common sense.  Consider the people who are fooled repeatedly by Rapture hoaxes.  I think I am on my fourth Rapture and looking for another one to start tomorrow.

No matter big you think your God is, GDW includes yours.