First Order of Business

I guess the first order of business here, would be to discuss the different religious texts that I am going to be writing about. I've already been reading these on my own, but it would be nice to have a place to keep a record of what I've read and what I wonder/think about what I'm reading.

World Scripture: This is actually an awesome anthology that I am reading online. It's a comparative religion book of sorts that takes many different topics relating to spiritual and physical life and finds scriptures that show what different religions or belief systems have to say about those topics. This is a book that I will eventually purchase, and I recommend it highly for people who are just interested in what the world's faiths have to say about God, family, prayer, the afterlife, money, time, etc. I'll be posting from here every now and then.

The Bible: I am going through the Bible on my other blog (fromlackofknowledge.blogspot.com) so I will not be profiling it extensively, here. However I will sometimes want to compare what I read in other religious texts with what my religious upbringing has to say. For that purpose, I will often quote Bible passages that relate to whatever I am reading.

The Book of Mormon: Eventually I will profile the Book of Mormon in my other blog, as well. But I will also profile it here. In this blog, I will be profiling the Book of Mormon just for what it says when I read it. In my other blog, I will be profiling it in context with the time period it is set it, and how it fits into Christian literature and history as a whole.

Other texts I will be profiling here include: The Confucian Analects (Confucianism), The Kitab-I-Iqan and Kitab-I-Aqdas (the Baha'i faith), the Qur'an (Islam), the Sri Guru Granth Sahib (Sikhism), the Tao Te Ching (Taoism), and the Zhuan Falun (Falun Gong).

I would eventually like to add a text from the Wiccan/Pagan groups but they are so varied with so many different texts that I will have to play around with that one a bit before I find the text that I want to profile. I also want to add Zoroastrian, Hindu, and Buddhist texts, eventually. Perhaps when I finish with these texts, I will move on to those.

Getting Started!

I now have four blogs.

There's wandermuse.tumblr.com, which is kind of a personal-thoughts, pictures, and favorite songs blog. It's the blog I use for my randomness.

Then, there's hairsaga.tumblr.com, which is the blog I'm using the track my natural hair care and growth.

There's fromlackofknowledge.blogspot.com, which is the blog I'm using for my study of Christian history and culture via Christian scriptures, folklore, and mythology.

And now, there's this one: another spiritually-related blog that keeps record of my study of the different scriptures and religions of the world.

On one hand, I hope to have followers - especially for the last two blogs - it's great to learn alone but there's something absolutely amazing about learning with others. On the other hand, I must keep in mind that I am doing this entirely for myself so that I don't end up tailoring my writing to fit what I think readers would be interested in hearing.

Some posts will be long, some posts will be short. Some posts will be confusing and messy. Others will be succinct.

In the end, I just want to learn as much as I can. I want to see God in new ways and understand people at the level that makes up their thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, and worldviews.

So, I'm excited to get started.