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On a tangent., the Jewish books I read yesterday indicated that the Jewish religion expands the minds of those who take it seriously.
Faith itself is mind over matter. Speaking personally my faith has expanded my realm of possibility, my social and relation skills with an ever increasing social network of lifelong solid friendships. It encourages perspective shifts, metaphysical and hypothetical thinking. The parables of Jesus encourage even children to think analogical and allegorically, looking at wisdom within the everyday.
Church encourages self confidence, trust, helping others - thus moving outside your head to view your own world in new perspective. Religions and their use of musical and artistic co-involvement encourage musical expression and the world of possiblities that language opens up. the act of creating and seeing lateral solutions is mind expanding in itself, let alone applied in a faith, interrelative context.
Faith occurs in the mind, needs a strong mind to exist, and expands ones mental abilities.
That is my POSITIVE experience of faith in an organised and social context. I have no need to deride those outside spirituality. I know the benefits it has brought my own life and those around me.
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