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Monday, 4 July 2016

With God.

Rules are an essential part of any community, since they enable us to live healthy lives in any relationship with others. Rules bring order to the group. They also help order our personal lives. Ironically, some critics of religious rules designed to lead to spiritual health follow an even stricter set of rules designed to lead to physical health. Diet plans and exercise programs are often as draconian as any canon law.   But an over-reliance on a rules-based religion can lead to an image of God as a Stern traffic cop concerned only with enforcing the law or, as one friend said, a parish officer. How many children who memorized the Baltimore catechism concluded that spiritual life was not an invitation to a relationship from a living God but a series of complicated rules from a tyrant God?

Friendship with God.
From The Jesuit Guide To Almost Everything;  P. 135.

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