I haven't blogged in a long, long, long, long time. And the truth is I think I do enjoy it. Today I got to enjoy a wonderful lecture, Markley's lecture have never been anything but wonderful and I am currently journal writing, so here's looking at you cyberspace, some brainstorming from me to you.
Journal
April 30, 2012
Today
lecture was about Milton being a Christian-Humanist. What this was meant to
describe was that although he considered himself as a
humanist the fact that he had been brought up as a Christian had tainted his
thoughts in a complete manner. All throughout his life he sought to come to
term with Christianity according to his humanistic beliefs. This makes me feel
immediately connected to Milton, like I also strive to at one point he is
trying to reconcile both matters, what is God’s role? Later on lecture turned to
the subject of which ultimately brought salvation, Jesus’ life or his death? I
have gone through a path of Catholicism to an ample search in different types
of Christianity, to the stage I am at. But since I left Catholicism it had
always felt that Jesus’ life was of outmost important, why should a sacrifice
be needed to amend for our mistakes? It is something that ought to be strived
for, done on a day to day basis.
The
matter of whether or now we are actually living life has come across in class often.
Well, this is something that I think everyone should ask him or herself. If we are to assume that we have one life (And
I am not entirely sure I agree on this matter lately I have been pondering more
and more on the subject of resurrection and where would that leave us? Thus most
days I think that it is this consciousness is the one we only have once of,
souls are eternal and in the next life it will remain the same even though the
vessels it comes in, my body, will be different.
I
have had this theory about religions for a couple of years now, I think I first
began to think about it around eight grade. At their core it seems that
Religions (at least the ones I have seen and been exposed to) are striving to
help us live a certain kind of life. Religions should see all the similarities instead
of looking at all the things that they do not have in common. I have often felt
like that about God, and something that is often said in class, “Man is flawed
so all religion is flawed” is something I can empathize with greatly, God didn’t
make Religion, people did and with this all the idiosyncrasies of people and
out flawed attempted to figure it out were absorbed by it.
