Religion
In reply to the discussion: Religious Oregon teens wear ‘Gay Is Not OK’ shirts to school to protest lack of ‘straight day’ [View all]el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)If I did say something like that I apologize. But I don't really think I did. You asked me what the value of a relationship was, taking God out of the equation, so that's the question I answered; I didn't realize what you intended by it.
Relationships as a generic concept have the benefits i mentioned above, but relationships aren't generic, they are specific. I get benefits out of my conversations with you that I wouldn't get in a relationship with say rug. Or trotsky. And similarly I would get benefits out of a relationship with them, that I wouldn't get with you.
A relationship with God has many of the generic benefits mentioned above, but it's a relationship with God (someone I believe exists, but that you don't). The God I believe in has a perspective far greater than my own or any humans, and by trying to understand what God wills for me I have a perspective I couldn't get anywhere else.
Bryant