"... What I mean is, since our notion of authority is developed by our view of our parents as small children, most of us will unconsciously project that notion onto our view of anything related to god, the supreme authority. When forming or maintaining a relationship with spirit as adults, we can fall into transferring the attributes of our parents onto our notion of ‘spirit’."
That's an excellent point. It seems obvious once someone points it out. There are a number of valuable points like that here...
Don’t Let Your Parents Screw Up Your Relationship With God — by Paula M. Jones
http://www.smallepiphanies.co/2015/04/1 ... -with-god/
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