Reacting to:
Yoda: Alert Reader on God and Christ
Second Alert Reader writes in:
I am a tad puzzled by your alert reader piece on religion… and you don't sound confused to me: curious, adventurous, pissed off at times but not particularly confused.
Naomi Wolf wrote this in 2013, after realizing the brainwashing and conditioning she had been subjected to all her life and how much it had predetermined who she was and how she acted as a human. When you think about it, what she stated is actually true for ALL the peoples on Earth and unless we ALL go back to it in short order, this current 10,000 thousand years cycle will have been for naught, like all others before it.
Jewish Writer Naomi Wolf on Jewish Choseness (evilyoshida.com)
God does not have favorite peoples and Christ spoke for ALL of us and said as much. His reach was only restricted by his human condition and place of birth which limited the physical distance his message could travel during his lifetime but… he did form and send his disciples all over the Mediterranean Basin, knowing full well that a large portion of said message would be poorly understood, hence poorly communicated, truncated or even twisted by design to serve special interests. He also knew that enough of it would travel the world eventually and he never was held to results but only to planting the seeds.
Every “ism” is a flawed human construct to sow discord and separate us from each others, and to exercise dominance and power over others no one has received from God.
As long as we, the human species, hold on to those constructs and view life as some accomplishment to attain rather than an adventure to be experienced, shared by all and enjoyed along the way, we will never be all we were created to be. I always tell people: “Don't tell me about about your beliefs, your church and your religion: show me instead what they are making of you.” We waste too much time and energy dissecting and misinterpreting each others' words and attributing ulterior motives to each others, and not enough time zeroing in on what we want the world to be for all of us and co-creating it together. The message was Christ' (God's) but the action is ours and we keep falling short there by focusing more of what we don't want and ought to fear rather than what we want collectively as a species and need to aspire to.
Deep down, we all want the same thing: unconditional love leading to co-creation and being one with the universe. No one is beyond redemption and keeping an open mind and wanting to explore the different ways people perceive and understand the world is neither a flaw nor a weakness and nor is it “caving in” to Satan or being “confused”. If we don't explore, how will we know what we believe and stand for? How will we figure out what we absolutely reject for ourselves and the world? How will we figure out whom and what to associate with? How will we build a consensus leading to the best collective decisions for all of us?
