Do you practice religion?
The more I experience God in my life, the more I realized the difference of religion and God.
In my opinion, religion is human institutions that help us human to experience and be closer to God.
Religions are systems of beliefs and practices that are designed to enhance our experience of faith. Sometimes they help us to discover the deeper levels of meaning in our lives; sometimes they are just a tool people use to justify the beliefs and behaviors they would have chosen anyway. Religion can give people insight for making good choices in difficult world. Religion can give people an excuse to hate and be greedy.
If being religious means believing that your religion embodies the perfect truth, then I will choose not to be religious either.
In my point of view, having faith in God is the experience of accepting that my life matters beyond the satisfaction of my desires and beyond the frailty of my body. For me, God is manifested in the realization that I am here, and so are you, to fulfill a purpose and truth that is greater than anyone of us individually.
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