As the title may suggest my post today has something to do with pick and mix! The topic of choice today is spirtual pick and mix! I was having a discussion about it with a friend the other day and I realised I knew someone who is a perfect example of pick and mix spirituality.
Spiritual pick and mix is very privatised, it's all about what makes sense to you, what you like and has nothing to do with what anyone else says, you get to choose how much of one particular discipline you want to believe in, which makes you feel good about yourself.
I think one of the main problems people have with the fact that Christianity is an organised religion is that you can't choose what you do and do not believe within it, you take it all or you leave it. It also involves, as my friend put it, taking yourself off the throne and placing God on it. As a Christian, you live your life trying to do what God wants you to do which may not always be what you want to do, a thing called temptation will tell you that! Most people would probably see becoming a Christian as making a sacrifice, giving up the things that are most pleasurable in life in order to do what someone else is telling you to do.
I would have thought that spirituality is about something above and beyond the physical but it seems to be wholly involved in pick and mix sprituality, I'll believe in it only if I like it, only if it makes myself feel better but surely someone would be willing to sacrifice a few things in order to grasp something that is purer, higher, more powerful, bigger than themselves. Jelly babies, allsorts, chocolate covered raisins, bit of buddhism, bit of wicca, bit of new age how can it work?
