TYB
What a shitshow. Nuff said.
Word.
Of course it is. Religion at it's root just means to "bind". To be bound to God. The word is in even in the Bible. " "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." - James 1:27
Don't be ashamed of it. This "I'm spiritual but not religious" is cowardice and modernism.
At least he's an actual retard, and not just putting on a show. I guess that's better?
I think we're mostly on the same page (about keeping things pure and away from the traditions of men), but I disagree that the phrase is used in good ways. Usually it's mainliners and new age people who use phrases like that. Not people who want to just get away from traditions of men. They're rebellious in general. People like Marianne Williamson especially.
Jesus didn't set you "free" in general. He set you free from sin. Big difference. And every apostle opened their epistles with phrases like, "Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ".
"Now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life." - Romans 6:22
No, Jews ARE Sumerians. Abraham was a Sumerian. A breakaway from it.