I read a book synopsis yesterday claiming that spirituality was a hoax. The author suggested that people should put their faith in science and technology so that they could reap rewards while all other whither away in peril for putting their faith in false gods. I laughed at the irony that the author didn’t realize that they were essentially asserting spirituality while at the same time claiming it to be a hoax. In this case, they were just making science and technology the deity.
That idea got me thinking about all the religions, belief systems, etc. that I have been reading about. There’s one commonality among all of them which I don’t understand. Every single one of them, that I have learned about, suggest that people need to follow their teachings. When people follow their teachings, they will become enlightened and find peace and meaning. When all peoples find their way to this way of thinking and/or belief it will bring of a new age to the reign of man on this planet. Those who believe will flourish and the ignorant will suffer and perish. We can’t seem to help but group people not matter how enlightened our teaching or philosophies become. I guess maybe it is the nature of man.
Maybe that’s why I was born a female. Regardless of belief system, religion, etc., I know that whatever force or deity created the universe, the world, and humanity, that creator created all of us. God didn’t create just a chosen few. He created every one of us. There are no chosen. When the time comes, God will not sit on a throne and separate the sheep from the goats because there will be no difference between sheep and goats. Human beings put value on things. We call things good and bad. We put things into groups and objectify things. God doesn’t. That’s why there are no chosen. All are chosen and all aren’t chosen. All are good and all are evil. In God’s eyes all dualities are transcended.
I guess that’s the hardest part of the mystery of God for anyone to accept. When God looks down on me from Heaven, He doesn’t look at me with human eyes. He sees me with all-knowing, all-powerful, all-mighty eyes who have the knowledge of creation and the universe. He doesn’t judge me as a human being would, He doesn’t value me like that. His love and acceptance are totally different than anything I could ever experience from anyone because He knows me better than I know myself and yet He loves and accepts me as I am. Not just me, but all. No chosen. He loves every single person from the beginning to the end of time.
My faith saved me. May God’s peace reside in all of our hearts.
