Original article:  http://www.ou.org/life/inspiration/you-can-still-be-holy-steven-pruzansky/#.T7pSWVLBtAM

http://www.ou.org/life/inspiration/you-can-still-be-holy-steven-pruzansky/#.T7pSWVLBtAM

A quote from the article:

“Facebook and friends breed indiscretion, induces bad behavior, propagates superficial and artificial relationships – and, worst of all, they rob people of their inner world, their inner sanctum of thoughts, feelings, emotions – of the capacity to think, to be private, to look before you leap, to be a real person, and especially to connect to G-d.–come on, that’s a bit much.  You can pray on facebook for people (and should, and ask the angels to do it for you when you can’t) every few hours, just as well as any blog.  In fact, I will put this on my facebook for you all asking for prayers for you all, every day, every few hours–for peace, love, understanding, tolerance, equality among the sexes.  Wouldn’t that be wonderful if a dozen, no a hundred facebook pages were changed today because of this post?  Wouldn’t it be better if this article asked everyone to put prayers of peace and love on their facebook page everyday?  I will pray for  that!  My angels too, and I have asked for dozens of them. Did you know that angels are NEVER  in short supply?

Did you know that love is the only thing you can share that when you share it it actually increases many times over.  It can even be divided an infinite number of times resulting in infinite love.

I was just talking to my friend about this today and religion (seems to cross all boundaries), and we agreed, the more a religion (be it orthodox Jewish, Muslim, Christian, whatever) insists on “rules and boundaries” you can bet that those restrictive rules (men sitting separate from women, telling women what to wear and what they must do from their lives), came from rules imposed upon a religion ***DURING THE TIME the country was occupied and repressed by another country***.  Do I have to say that again?  Restrictive religions often come from times when a religion was occupied and the occupiers came up with strict rules as a means to easily control the populace.

Shariah law is like that, and also orthodox Judiasm comes from that–when the Edomites who were forced to convert to Judiasm so that all Jews could be ruled by the Romans in their very own houses of worship.

The best religions are those that teach every to do good each and every day, promote justice, peace, love, equality between the genders and all sexes.  Those that advance the people toward holiness and holiness IS peace and love.  God/dess is pure peace and love and joy and happiness.

I have no idea why anyone would think it is hard to pray or have kids pray.  Unless your kid is getting straight A’s in school, they are certainly praying. I think math tests create the most prayer in schools, followed by science.  More math and science, more prayers I belive.

Praying is the easiest and best thing you can do.  Don’t skip a minute per day.  Ghandi said that while many people think that prayer is a foolish old superstition of old women, it is actually the absolutely most powerful tool we have on earth.  Hands down.  Try it.   Many have and many are using it when you don’t even know.  It can only be used for good–anything negative is blacked out permanently.

I will look for my post later today, but it will also be put up in full on my blog. http://www.oufeminist.org!

Hey, wait, I got to do this post by logging into Facebook.  That is soooo totally funny.