Mm, but I don't accept loving God as *any* kind of aim to have in my life. If the aim in Guiding is for spiritual growth (I think it is - I was just on the website, but I've already forgotten what it said on account of brain like sieve), then I'm scuppered anyway because I don't believe in any kind of spiritualism, really. Not involving a higher power, anyway.
The God thing, it's like a mathematical problem where x (in this case the answer to life, the universe and everything) might equal a, b or c. I don't feel any more strongly towards a (God) than I do towards b or c - I can't claim that I'm doing my best to hope that a wins when the chips are down and the evidence comes rolling in. (I think I just murdered that metaphor. Helas.) It really, really is different. I simply don't belong in a religious organisation, and if Guiding is happy for people to mangle its promise and not *really* mean the God part, I think it *should* change it, because as it stands at the moment its spiel about including all girls and young women can't be true.
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Date: 2007-06-28 08:47 pm (UTC)The God thing, it's like a mathematical problem where x (in this case the answer to life, the universe and everything) might equal a, b or c. I don't feel any more strongly towards a (God) than I do towards b or c - I can't claim that I'm doing my best to hope that a wins when the chips are down and the evidence comes rolling in. (I think I just murdered that metaphor. Helas.) It really, really is different. I simply don't belong in a religious organisation, and if Guiding is happy for people to mangle its promise and not *really* mean the God part, I think it *should* change it, because as it stands at the moment its spiel about including all girls and young women can't be true.
Sorry - will stop going on about it!