Questions regarding the LOO, STS and Religions

[Monica]

If we seek to divide religion from spirituality, then it is we that judge.

If applied to a person, indeed that would be true. But I don't think it is judgmental to distinguish between religious doctrine which may or may not contain spirituality, and spirituality which may or may not contain religion.

For the moment, religion is as good as it gets for the vast and greater population of earth who by the billions far exceed students of esoterica.

Actually, I think religion can do a lot better than it has. And it is beginning to happen, in pockets. Even amongst fundamentalists, there are uprisings of new thought. It's wonderful to see!

And some religions are far less dogmatic than others, although both rigid dogma and mysticism can both be found in most religions.

Lets us pray for them and ourselves that we both are as spiritual as our doctrines espouse and encourage us to be.

Or...how about more spiritual than our doctrines espouse and encourage us to be? I think of doctrine as something to be transcended. Even those enmeshed in doctrine are often challenged by it and given opportunities to transcend it, and therein lies a potential for growth.

In humor as well as in earnest to make my point, I would wager a bet that there will be far many more Christians, Jews, and Muslims that harvest than there will be LOO'ers. Its in the numbers and thus demonstrates the viability of religious/spiritual paths.

Ra indicated that numbers were unimportant. I would respectfully disagree that the numbers necessarily indicate validity. Although, we already know that there is validity to any catalyst as well as to any path, irrespective of the numbers.