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Welcome to our article,
Dear readers, we need to believe in God, because it can help us live a better life. But this belief does not help everybody. Therefore, during our lives, most of us will have our doubts about our religious beliefs, some of us will conclude that God does not exist, because there are many things that don’t add up properly in our religious beliefs: for instance, when something horrible happens, we are bound to ask ourselves, why God let these horrible things happen? Then, we will continue to ask ourselves, if God exists or does not exist, because of what is happening around us. Now, all this asking that we do to ourselves, it will drive us to think that God does not exist, because if God existed these horrible things should not have happened. But we need to believe in God, because as some people say God is hope for those that need hope most, so, let us continue to believe in God and religions, the way that we have been taught to believe.
You see, we need to believe in God for many reasons, even when things
happen that make us think that God does not exist, or God does not care about
us, because God does not help us solve our everyday problems, or prevent
something horrible happening, like what has happened in Spain yesterday;
(18/08/2017) this madman has driven a large vehicle through a large crowed in
the street of Barcelona, killing 15 people and injuring over a hundred others.
What hurts most is that there is evidence that this is another terrorist
attack, that religious extremists are waging against the rest of the community,
in fact it seems that this attack was part of an organized group of extremist,
who were going to carry out other violent deeds, but the Spanish police were
able to stop them in time.
Anyhow, let us describe a way how our spiritual side works and what we usually do to satisfy our spiritual needs. Which in our Roman Catholic religion, it can also be expressed by our adoration of a Madonna or Saints. Let me explain a Madonna or Saint does not take the place of God, but it is a link of the chain that links to God. You see, people pray to Madonna or saints because they seem closer to us.
Looking at our spiritual needs.
I believe that to understand our spiritual needs, we need to look at what
today religious institutions want us to do, which is usually what our forebears
did in the past. We need to understand that religions have been made up for us from
our forebears, they have been made for those needs that were present at the
times when they were written. Most of those needs will still apply today, and
they will still apply tomorrow because most of them don’t change. It is only
some very extreme religious needs that may change, because things around us
have changed and keep changing, so, those religious needs are not useful
anymore.
Anyhow, if we think about it, soon or later we will understand today
spiritual needs, that are required for our present times. Today I am convinced
that we need to believe in God and everything else that comes with it, because
that is what we humans are like, we need to believe in God, it is necessary for
us to believe in these religious institutions, which our forebears have setup
for us in the past, as they give us some guidance how to live our lives. So,
let us look at what some of these religious ways that we are using even today
do, starting with my own native town and its religious feasts, since I believe
that these religious feasts help people live a better and happier life.
In my native town of Genzano di Lucania, we have many religious feasts,
the most important of these feasts is the feast of this Madonna called Maria
Santissima Delle Grazie, this feast runs for three days, and all the people
have good time. For a start, everyday there is a religious procession, where we
take this Madonna statue around the town, there are a lot of people that take
part in it, those that are not in the procession, will line the street to see
the procession passing by. Because of this festive season, there are lots of
happy things to do, there is a few merry go around for the kids, some games for
older people are played, there are many stalls set up to sell ice-creams and
other joyful things, there are a few bands playing music in the square. In
other words, it is a very happy time for the town’s people. This may not seem a
lot today because ice-cream and music are available every day of our lives, but
in the past they waited for this feast to enjoy these things.
So, we can say that this is a way of life that our forebears have instituted for us. Now, just to prove my point, my native town of Genzano di Lucania, it is not the only town that has these religious feasts, so, let me name a few other nearby towns that come to my mind even today: in Banzi (this is a small town about 4 km from Genzano) there is the feast of St. Vito the 15th of June and here too, they have games bands and everything else to make people happy; another important feast is the feast of St Rocco in Tolve; (this is a town that take 4 or 5 hours walk to reach it on foot, some devotees walk an entire night to reach this town, but they are devotees, so, they are happy to do it), another one is the feast of St Gerardo in Potenza. Of course, there are a lot more feasts, in fact every town has at least one feast of its saint protector. Which we can say that it is a way of life that helps the people live a better life. So, religions are helpful.
Now, here I should add that there can be exceptions, when religions are used to make wars and hatred, like in the case of the Muslims terrorists.
Anyhow, I have written this article to show that we need to believe in God, because to believe in God is helpful for everybody around; the only problem here is that the world needs to find an universal God and religion that everybody can believe in. So, we have written our theory of Reconciliation of the Universe Where we explain how we see God of the future. Which is a bit different from the Muslim God, and this may help self disarm the Muslims terrorist.
Hereunder is
one of the links of the feasts I have been talking about.
SAN
ROCCO- TOLVE (PZ) - YouTube.
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