Are you religious?

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“mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance.” Jude 1:2

How would you respond?
 
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Simple. These have nothing to do with religion. Religion is all about obedience, feeling inadequate, being guilty. The “love, mercy, etc” is just a thin veil to hide the basic teaching: “we are all despicable sinners, we all deserve damnation, we can never earn our way to heaven, no matter if we lead a life of a saint”.
 
It sounds like a short prayer of praise… So yes the answer would be. Amen.
 
Its the greeting at the beginning of the book of Jude, so I would just say, “Amen, brother!”, and move along.😉
 
I would say I am religious and try to be more so 🙂 How 'bout you?
 
What does it mean to be “religious?”

I don’t like that term. It implies that there is a constructed property of myself.

I prefer to say that I just choose to live in a way in which I believe I am naturally inclined to.
 
If you mean religious as an acceptance of and living out of Catholic beliefs about the nature of and relationships between God, myself, and others, then I certainly try. 😃
 
James 1:27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained by the world.*

So I’ll ask, do we help care for orphans and widows? Do we keep ourselves unstained by the world?
 
I do consider myself to be religious. I also try to be merciful, peaceful, and loving. Admittedly I do fail frequently and I regret that but I do try.
 
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