Licking the Razor's Edge (2015)

*Do you preach Kindness and morality more than you practice them?
*Do you tithe your money more than your time?
*Do you feel that you need to confess your sins, or otherwise repent for your failures?
*Do you pray to God for personal benefits or for the benefit of loved ones?
*Do you believe in a post-mortem Heaven &/or Hell?
*Do you pray for the poor, the homeless &/or those in despair more than you actively
reach out to serve them?
*Do you feel inadequate or “down” if you do not attend religious services regularly?
*Do you primarily associate with people who share your own spiritual beliefs?
*When listening to a sermon, are you able to respectfully hear the potential validity of the
speaker’s words, even if they “rub you the wrong way”?
*Do you feel that humankind are innately “sinful” or selfish, or that the world is “bad” or
filled with “evil people”?
*Do you believe that the Universe will somehow “repair itself” (e.g. “the Second
Coming” for Christians, “the Great Shift” for New Agers, etc) and someday bring forth
for you — without you having to do anything at all — a world of harmony and justice
and joy?
*Do you have a rigid moral code of conduct?
*Do you think that God is watching you?
*If devout, do you scorn science? If secular, do you scorn faith?
*Do you feel that God (or the Divine, or the Universe) shares information with you that is
not available to everyone else?
*Do you feel embarrassed or ashamed whenever you slip up and violate your religion’s
moral code?
*Do you use words like “never”, “someday”, “always” and “forever”?
*Do you use words like “should”, “ought to”, “have to” and “must”?
*Do you call yourself a “reverend”, a “healer”, a “guru”, a “pastor”, a “psychic”, a
“rabbi”, a “minister” or a “lightworker”?
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