What would you say is the difference between eligious, fundamentalistic, and pious?
Words have meanings and today’s fundamentalist isn’t really a person that lives according to the basics of the path. Instead, they tend to be fanatical in their approach to religion, giving no quarter to any other path, and willing to sacrifice their lives in the cause. If not their lives, then their honor and respect others may otherwise have for them. I am not a fundamentalist. A pious person tends to be religiously arrogant, but not to the extreme nature of the fundamentalist. I picture a pious person as having pride and typically, belonging to an elite part of society. Well-heeled, educated, snobby, are all terms that seem to fit. I do not consider myself pious. A religious person is a person who attempts to religiously follow a path that is before him to the best of their ability. They don’t hold their path over any other person as “better” or “the only way” and tend toward willing to live and let live. They are aware of the basics of the religious path and attempt to live them. I
Religious would be someone practicing in a framework of ideas on the concept of spirituality while having their own views of the religion they participate in. Generally described as faith, having your own approach toward spirituality by the way of a religion Fundamentalism is basically taking faith in a religion to the extreme. Claiming that a religion is absolute. Fundamentalism in my opinion, although with all do respect to fundamentalists, prevents a thinking mind. Pious would be defined as being devout to a primary religion but also being respectful of another’s belief system. Being tolerant of another’s faith or even accepting some of the points they convey but still holding strong to most of your interpretations b/c you feel it is most comfortable in pursuing spirituality.
they are born of the same misunderstanding that there is a god who lives somewhere up there in heaven and that they know that as a truth whereas in fact they have been told that is the case by some one else who in turn was told by someone else who made it all up to exploit and enslave when someone says they are religious what they are really saying is join my club and treat me as special the fun-da-mentalist is just that someone have no fun and needs others to join him in his misery and the pious is an idiot who wants to be seen as better than those last two but in truth is the worse of them all as for me im a 60 year old buddha who is laughing dancing and living this great mystery while those socalled religious ones talk about it
