Month: February 2018

 

Regardless of hunger and instinct, cannibalism is not around. It has not evolved in most societies wherever it has been discussed whether in an open society or in the bush. Most societies naturally avoid this topic. This day and age we have certain acceptable level of crime rate in all human societies. Each level of crime may be a little different from other crimes but no one is crime free including the religious societies with the harshest of the punishments as they are are riddled with all kind of crimes.

Regardless of the crime rate we have made some progress. My question is where do you personally stand in this evolving world? How far would you be pushed to break the limits or rules of the  group that you have chosen to belong to, whether it be a social issue one concerning your religious beliefs? Would you commit a spiritual crime knowingly that it is wrong? Would you blow yourself up to kill innocent people or bomb to blow up the whole city of in the name of your belonging group? In the end, would you go to cannibalism if you were starving? I have not read or heard the news of cannibalism yet I hear human being dying of starvation all throughout our history. Cannibalism is rarely heard in this day and age, why do you think people don’t kill other people for food? They kill each other all the time. What are the reasons behind this? What makes us different than other creatures?

Education, Education and Education. Interestingly. 

There is a strange phenomena that most societies follow where it is that we don’t kill each other because of our aggressive nature or lack of education but we kill each other with our sense of belonging related and politically tainted education.  As babies we don’t discriminate, yet we can’t stand each other as adults. Growing up with knowledge acquired by education as a part of our wish to be better informed about our fellow man makes up our identity, and we wonder why others cannot understand that we will follow a group that encourages us to be informed and make informed decisions regarding other people in our society. We need to know and assess individually so you would be able to choose whether one wishes to act as a human being in the group that you belong to. Your political identity is what you assume is the same as the groups you have chosen to follow.

To me, knowledge is only a knowledge when practiced. Wisdom is all about the affects. If we learn to become or accept being a human being we can over come our identity crisis. Personal weakness and powerful politics that we follow within our groups gives us comfort that we are adhering of our sense of belonging to our groups. This forces us  to even reject the education of the opposing groups regardless of the wisdom that it contains.

The fundamentals of civilizations are based on our education yet it is not that simple when it comes to the politics of sense of belonging, evolving nature or even starvation. All obedience for the rules and respect of law and order and yes even the religious beliefs including God are the things of a full stomach, a few days of starvation creates hallucination so it is kind of obvious.  Regardless of our education each and everyone of us come with the conflicting sides because of the ideas we receive from our group that we were born with. In spite of the strength of the animal side, human beings come ripened with equally strong spiritual side in the core .
Yes,our good and bad are related with our core and why would God do that to human beings?  Why is it that there are bad people or the people whom are bad but become good with the time? Common sense comes to mind when peoples use the human body as an example of humanity.

The first words of wisdom of good and bad is that we would not be able to know the differences if there was not any good or bad.  I am not certain but I have read somewhere that the human body is consisted of ten trillion cells with twenty six thousand genes. We have a hundred trillion good and bad bacteria with three million of genes to keep our body alive. Even bad bacteria, viruses and parasites are important to keep the immune system in tip top shape to help the body be healthy. For the individual to appreciate the good they have in life, they have to understand that without both there can be no distinction between bad and good.If we don’t have anything bad like poisons in the body, our immune system is a dead duck so we will not be able to survive this world full of infections. We have earned the right to live on the face of the earth by surviving infections.

The good and bad  can be an opinion of a certain time and era and be related to the education or level of understanding so the bad in our gut is actually good if it helps us to survive.
Now, people in a society are like the colonies of bacteria working for God or humanity. It may be chaotic if everyone is good in the society because there is no gauge to compare good from bad. Bad has its importance for educational purposes or we don’t understand at this time. Remember that our past bad behaviors are acceptable as well as the good things today so an evolving entity can’t be completely sure of their evolving knowledge. It is still a choice for the individual regardless of the era they are born into. When it is established that choosing good or bad comes with the a choice, that means there is much more responsibility on the individual’s shoulders than we are taught that we must believe in religions. You simply can’t hide behind the Devil or God for your good and bad choices. God or Devil don’t come into your decisions because you have been blessed with  free will thus you individually have to take charge and be responsible for your decisions that you make.

Today we have court systems set in most human societies and fundamentals of the justice systems are based on the individual responsibilities and personal choices. It is because no one disputes free will. Since good and bad is assessed by the popular beliefs of the era you are born into, it becomes quite problematic when the politics of the group we have chosen to belong to conflicts with  the wishes that our fellow individuals wish to follow.

We may be taught that is good to commit spiritual crimes for our belonging groups whether it is in the name of nationalism or religion. This group may try to convince you that it is not a bad thing to do something bad even though you are acting for the belonging group and this can include so called religious groups.

The human individual is a subcontractor to God , so there is no if, and or buts regarding the personal responsibilities for all the evolved and educated individuals.
The more we evolve, the more our responsibilities are being placed on our shoulders to live as we must. These are the reasons why in these modern days religions have taken a hit in their popularity. If you choose to act and murder someone who is innocent of any crime in the name of your religion, you are still responsible for your actions. If it is determined that you did commit this crime, you not your religious group,will be tried and ,if found guilty, be punished in the court of law and this could mean many years in jail or by the loss of your life.

If you are told or you personally believe that God will save you from any court because you have done it for God, you will have rude awakening in both levels. First you may get a death penalty and second you may lose the belief system because God will not show up to save you. God may say, the reason I gave you the free will to choose is to make choices. If you can choose and own what decisions you are making then you are using your individual powers. If you do not choose to own your decisions you are undermining God.

One can blame ideology for  being violent, but when it comes to responsibility, it is all about the individuals responsibility. If it is related with the extreme, it is coming from the choices made by  individuals. Being good or bad has been, is and still will be changing with time. If your acts of being good is related with the politics of your sense of belonging it maybe tainted with something you perceive. It can be good but if it is proven to be harming some innocent human beings.  This is a spiritual crime committed by you,  the individual.

In this day and age if you are still living in the past or you want everyone else to live in the past glory days you are not paying attention to the changing world around you.
If you believe even the leaves of the tree can’t move without God’s will, how can you choose to act independently to extremism and perhaps rob someone of their God given lives?  If you believe someone’s death by your hands is God’s act, remember the power of the politics of your belonging group over you. Assess your sense of belonging and sense of freedom and create balance so you can make a good judgment as an individual who is blessed with the Godly gift of free will.

You have been blessed with free will by God and not by your belonging groups for a reason. The FREE WILL  that you have received is a gift from God. The Gift of Free Will that you received is for you to use with your belonging group, so think spiritually not politically.

Both good and bad are usually related with the choices of our animal and human sides so if everyone around us has a larger or dominating animal side which we would naturally  follow which is the norm. Yet potentially each and everyone of us can use personal choice. As individuals we make choices but we are dependent on the circumstances we are facing at the time. For instance, natural disasters or acts of God, national or religious conflicts or serious health condition will have the power to force us to comply regardless of our free will. I am saying that in the same breath because we need to use our personal politics to survive in a world full of political infections.

God’s wisdom comes to play when you take chances and walk on fresh snow not knowing what danger may be hidden beneath the snow. The story of life comes from God but the steps taken by individuals with free will. Carving pathways is the individual’s choice, this may take sacrifices but survival of the humanity requires physical hardship of the human individuals. You may have a dotted story line in your life but you have been given a choice to connect the dots. Remember we all come in life with a purpose so God’s work that will  be done through you.

You may not feel or understand the spiritual path you are on in the beginning of your life but as you grow and understand or I should say choose to understand the value of the free will, you will be able to see nature and the spirituality clearly.

A while back I wrote a blog about the dotted picture which described the importance of our personal satisfaction of living a mortal life. In the end of the day, each and everyone of us comes with a personal and prescribed journey, which makes the learning of free will the most important and most valuable lesson for evolution.

Interestingly as a mass or collectively we discourage the individual to be independent. Many of and our religions and isms even force the individual to stay within their boundary lines. Yet we are continuing to evolve. If free will was not given by God we would not evolve. Each and every single progress made by  humanity has been, is and will be dependent on that one revolutionary individual who comes up with Godly inspired ideas.

From religions to isms and on to democracies, and everything in between  have attempted to govern human societies and they all have a human individual input. Religions may process Godly inspired knowledge but they still may be brought down their knowledge or may be delivered by the human individual. As a humanity we have been following a philosophy which favors mass over the individual for millions of years.Most religious organizations and isms have been down right disrespecting and controlling of their followers.

Finally democracies brought in some respect for individual equal human rights. When you choose mass over the individual regardless of who is right, it leads to group rights violations as well. Bigger and stronger groups try to take over the smaller and weaker groups just like its own citizens. In my opinion, this is the foundation of our group conflicts, so I am hoping if we can bring equal human rights as a new paradigm to evolve to the next level not only for individual but for the whole humanity to deal with our conflicts.

A respected human individual learns to respect not only the group that they belong to but other human beings and groups as well. This can lead  humanity to respect each other individually and collectively at the same time. This may become the key to a peace that we have been longing for for many years. Peace can be accomplished now because we have the powers and ability to enable the world of make a deliberate decision to make all of our weapons of mass destruction extinct.

There is no solid evidence that democracy is the answer to all human problems, but it has been an important aspect in bringing about many acts of equal human rights. One thing that democracy brought forward is  in the form of voting. Citizens are given the right to vote knowing that one vote for one individual regardless of the color, gender, race or religion. Personally, I think it is a good enough reason to look at it as the best system to govern human societies so far. People don’t flock to the democracies for only economical reasons but for many more such as equal human rights for all citizens. There are many more acts that the citizens have the right to take part in so this is some of the reasons that people are attracted to countries that are democratically run. Many people who may not have these rights may choose to leave their beloved people and country and immigrate to such a country.

Reading a book of knowledge without putting knowledge into practice, you can know a lot but your practical living is the main thing. Religions have a lot of wisdom but the practical living is showing that our interpretations are politically tainted. Our politically tainted religious beliefs are clearly connecting to today’s social problems like prejudice and discrimination. It has put spiritual sides of the religions in an awkward position because they have taught us and brought us up from a savage beings to selflessness and compassionate human beings.
The downfall from the past glory started when religions left the spirituality behind to become political systems.

Regardless of authenticity. God and spirituality is not a governing system because human being is an evolving entity. Knowledge will change with time. The bitter truth is that truth can’t be mixed with the politics period. If you mix them together, sooner of later you will run into a situation where you will commit a spiritual crime in the name of God, so it is better to keep them separate. We are not perfect beings until we have evolved to our potential so our politics should not be part of our belief system.

If you disrespect even one individual and feel superior you have taken the road to politics, you can’t judge who is going to hell or heaven. This decision is between the individual and God.
As we are evolving our good and bad appear to be exchanging places or the lines are being blurred. Today no one wants to be related with racism, slavery, prejudice, and discrimination. In today’s reality they are becoming crimes. In our not so distant past there have been the trademark of superiority in both religions and governing systems and this superiority was used by different groups to express actions of pride.

Kingdoms, dictatorships, authoritarian and religious governing systems disregarded and continue to disregard individual human rights. With the help of the internet, a big sleeping giant called humanity is waking up with a goal of having equal human individual rights for all peoples of this world. No one should be on the wrong side of the history. Democracy related equal human rights needs to be respected because it aligns with God and spirituality, and with humanity as a whole. Most other governing systems are related with the politics of sense of belonging to a group of people not to humanity as a whole.

God and spirituality are the universal truth of humanity as a whole. Religions, if they are used as political systems, isms, and all other political security related systems are our individual and collective truths.

Understanding and seeking security in God and humanity as a whole is the new paradigm which is going through some resistance like some other current causes for turmoil. You can stick to the old ways and keep killings each other or be a part of the new paradigm. The choice is open to all so choose humanity over your belonging groups because today we have weapons of mass destruction and the path we are on it is leading to our extinction.

If someone wants to know me: I can put my name, my father’s name along with my family name and where I am from. This should be good enough for my identity, but it is not. This is four layers of my identity! Would I include my neighbourhood, city, province, nation, religion, male, female, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, black, white, brown, yellow, red, mixed, how big or small I am or even how old am I?

If you begin to understand and research genetics and science, you will begin to understand that we are all made of the same substances and we are a mixture of all the above items. Now, let us consider what my problems are and where are they coming from?

What happened to the human being under all these layers? Well, we got lost in an identity crisis. The reality is that we all are mortal. We need oxygen to breath and food to eat. We live and die. Some get hurt from the similar happenings that hurt many of us and this affects others the same way. We all need love, compassion, forgiveness and sacrifice for SELF as an individual and collectively for the humanity as a whole.

Do we act like a turtle and hide inside our shell acting like we are protecting our mother earth from a variety of aliens? Take a look at all of us and how we react when we experience  every social and spiritual crime carried against us individually and collectively. Is it committed by our own fellow human beings?  If you remove all the man made political boundary lines of the globe and strip down all the political and sexual identities of the individual you will find a physical world with the real human being who is capable to together.

All political lines were and still are being created in the name of peace. After millions of years of evolution, how did we get that illusive peace by divisions?  No, we did not.  Regardless of our evolution the animal instinct is still live and well in our being. Today’s so called evolved human being is a lot more dangerous than it was in the past, so the divisions of related politics can be deadly for humanity as a whole. We may save the other species from extinction but we are working hard to make ourselves extinct by our actions.

If you, as an individual, are willing to rid yourself of all the problems related with your prejudice, racism and discrimination, you will have to go through a period where you will peel off all the man made identities for yourself. This is not possible done by one individual at a time. It is not possible without the spreading of education for all of mankind. It must come from both sides and it is unless it comes from both opposing sides, both individually and collectively. I said opposing sides because it has been and still is an on going discussion what is more important. Is it the individual or the mass? If you bring your politics and attempt to reach everyone in the mass or the group that you have chosen to follow, it is a given that many of your group will reject your ideas as it is difficult to change from the old ideas that we know and follow as a society. If a society choses not to adhere to equal individual human rights, the future will be filled with many types of crimes which may include spiritual crimes which  ends up by causing the group a lot of trouble.

The problem is that as groups we would not want to let this happen because it would be political suicide for our group. As an individual, we would not want to let go of the politics of our sense of belonging. It would not be an easy task for the people who are brainwashed by the politics of the group that they have chosen to follow. To change their ideas and their sense of belonging for millions of years is what we are trying to accomplish. This is all we know from our upbringing so the transformation or I should call it,” the next step of the evolution”, from the previous knowledge is a difficult  uphill climb especially when it is related to our security and present belief system.

To understand this picture we have to look at ourselves as individuals. If I were to pick one function of the known ones and look at the sophistication of it, would we want or choose to change what we do?  I said the known ones because we are still evolving and we don’t know everything about the body yet. If you start to look at yourself,  you will start to not only believe in God but learn to gain some respect for the other individuals and yourself as well. All the known and unknown abilities of the individual are wasted when one kills or dies while following the politics in the name of what the group proclaims you must do to continue with yours sense of belonging.

Do we diet to the point to stay thin and lose our health? This is a pathetic act because we are aware that all individuals are mortal. Killing and you being killed for a cause is common in many human societies. All this is related with the politics of the sense of belonging to a group that we have chosen to accept to affiliate with . To fit in, do I try to impress others in our group so I will be accepted ? One’s sense of  being admired  and accepted is related with the sense of belonging.

If your sense of belonging is warped, you need to awaken your sense of freedom to match  it to your being so you can make good decisions according to the importance of your life.

Not liking being a little overweight and being healthy has everything to do with sense of freedom. To act in such a way such as dying from self starvation is not a healthier and wiser choice for a functioning individual. Throwing away a perfectly functioning body in the name of cause or just to fit in with the others is a clear sign of the individual weakness so stand up to your potential a human being.

As KABIR said hundreds of years ago,  “THE DROP IN THE OCEAN, EVERY BODY KNOWS, THE OCEAN IN THE DROP, A RARE ONE DOES”.

Since you are not a drop in the ocean, you are the ocean in a drop , so dig, dig and dig for that God given potential. Don’t let the trends, friends or the politics of sense of belonging rob you of your gifts of life. After all , you are the subcontractor of the almighty himself.

If you look at the melting pot in societies, this is already happening. People are learning that their core values and that their God given identity is a human being. This human being is an organism just like a coral reef with a multiple number of colors , yet it survives. It lives and thrives the same way.

Human individual have two sides and with these two sides they must commit to accepting  the responsibility to create balance between the two. Both spiritual and physical sides are related with our behavior. The physical side wants security because it knows about the mortality of all humans yet the spiritual side has the wisdom to be secure from within by connecting to the source.

The examples are always seen in the extreme because we all are human beings. We want to have physical experience of life while we are here. Going to extremes either way is not wise for any mortal. Being extreme is a non spiritual period because we are still evolving. When you are an unfinished product you just can’t claim that you know every thing regardless of the number of books you have read. You are still learning,  so you can’t make extreme decisions. Religions, medicine and music hit us in such a way that we think that we know everything there is to know. Interestingly enough we have been reacting to these things for millions of years and we are still learning more everyday.Yet we have claimed all along that we know every thing. This thought is not to put anyone down but it is explained so as  to point towards the evolving nature of human individuals. God gives human individuals the chance to enjoy this mortal life. The only way a human being can enjoy the bounties of life is through the animal side. Controlling or killing the animal side is simply not from God, it is more to impress the people around us. A healthy individual should have a balanced approach to life, reciprocating that is by the act of giving back, to be useful to God you can do good while enjoying a temporary visit. Enjoying a good food can make the animal side happy and satisfied. A useful being is a reciprocating being, God’s work needs to be done regardless.  If everyone becomes a monk, this  kills the animal side, and  gives up the enjoyments of the journey and become dependent on the others to feed. How would  humanity function ?

You can put ash all over your body and walk around naked without showering for years or put on a Hijab and claim to be a clean person in your social settings. This would not stop the world from rotating around the Sun. Physical and spiritual cleanliness is meaningless to God if the human is not there to reciprocate. Your prayers, fasting and other forms of personal sacrifice and related sufferings are from the customs that were passed down and it comes from the actions expected by your political or religious group that you choose to follow.

Your spiritual work is directly between you and God because you are a subcontractor working for God. If you can help people who are suffering and praying to God by fixing up their luck, but you choose not to help , you are not reciprocating and doing your job as a subcontractor. You can worship and self sacrifice as part of your personal suffering, but if you are an able human being and you don’t help the others , you are not reciprocating. In my opinion, everyone who is working is reciprocating. Some may say I am getting paid for the work I perform but if you logically look at all humans they are helping others. Therefore, helping others is reciprocating. You may think the actions are for the other human beings and not for God. If you want to see God spiritually but you can’t see or understand then you must search for God. If you want to see that God physically exists through the living human beings, so search for God in these helping human beings which would logically be reciprocating to God.

Whether you believe in God or not, try to reach a potential that will help you to reciprocate at higher level. Since that is your practical prayers, you end up helping humanity, thus God. You can worship like a prophet but if you can contribute to humanity by saving lives, in my opinion you are at higher level of reciprocation. For instance, the inventor of the insulin should be regarded as a prophet in medical field because his discoveries have been saving lives long after he has died.

You can wipe or wash yourself but this does not make you clean. If your spirituality is tainted with the politics of your sense of belonging, sooner or later you will commit spiritual crimes like prejudice and discrimination in the name of your belonging group.

The real dirt you want removed from your being is your spiritual dirt. When you can pray to God but feel no remorse and self responsibility by bombing and blowing up some innocent people, it is clearly disrespecting God given identity. You can have your political reasons, but a spiritual crime is a spiritual crime. There is no other way to describe it. You are responsible because you have been blessed with free will which gives you a roll of subcontractor. You may care about the physical hygiene but in reality its the spiritual hygiene that matters the most.

God blessed human individual with free will, thus He gave us equal power to make our own decisions. Some of us may think this is not true because even the leaves on the tree can’t move without God’s will. Look around and see if everyone is moving around or living as puppets live. We live within a family raised by the same parents. We all seem to grow up to be different. We choose different paths, we value different things, we even think and feel differently. We even put different levels of efforts and worshiping in our personal lives. Why all the differences? Are we sure that God wanted us to be the same? This is not to discredit anyone’s knowledge but to make some sense to ones self.

If the leaves can’t move on their own, how can it be believed that someone can abort a child without the God’s will?.

We can put God on a pedestal because we feel so vulnerable that we  can’t even breath on our own if the oxygen is taken away. God does whatever is God’s Will.  By giving us  free will, God gave human individuals the role of a subcontractor and we all know that subcontractors work for the contractor. We get God’s prescribed job done but we choose how it gets done, so does this bring your importance up as an individual and make you feel responsible for your personal actions?

Metaphorically it is said that a drug lord can help the people belonging to his community to the point that everyone starts to feel that it is their duty to help him. They feel that the purpose of their lives is to protect him. Now, if you think and know that the drugs kill even the innocents and have horrendous negative effects on the society. If you understand what a Drug Lord does and you make a decision that don’t care what the Drug Lord is doing and you keep thinking that helping the drug lord, is the right and good thing to do? I think not! This act is all about the politics of the sense of belonging which has robbed individuals of a personal sense of justice. Belonging impulses to the point that one can’t think as an individual is not what is expected and is working against your free will. This is the start of an individuals destruction of a human being. A destroyed individual is not and can not be a subcontractor of the Almighty.

God gives us an equal opportunity to be good or bad.  Knowing what our good and bad spiritual level is crucial at all levels of humanity. As an individual, if you don’t have a personal sense of justice,  you would be following and enforcing the rules, rituals, traditions and customs of your belonging groups. This makes you subservient to a group of people and not a subcontractor to The  Almighty. The more you preach the politics of your belonging group, the less valuable you personally become.

Know your value. You are an ocean in a drop not a drop in the ocean. Most groups prohibit individuals from becoming  important because the groups believe in the mass more than the individual. Yet it is proven that the main essences of all groups is the individual. Religious beliefs, socialism and communism are highly influenced by the politics of sense of belonging thus are designed for the masses so the individual’s rights can be sacrificed. We have come a  long way from human sacrifice but when it comes to mass verses individual religions it would always stand for the masses.

Equal human rights is a new phenomena but it is the most spiritual thing humanity can adopt. Many human individuals are brain washed and made to feel good by self sacrifice. This can come from sleep to hunger to self mutilating. This is all too common in different religious practices. Yet it is all well known and as a  fact that a working individual who help  humanity are fulfilling God’s assigned job. This reciprocation is part of the contract we all sign with the Contractor so we can be the subcontractors. We give and take, not give and give, even the honey bees and ants work for the queen but they can’t live without food, so it is their contract. Genetically we are far more superior and aware of being a queen ourselves so no one should be treated even by themselves like a worker bee or warrior ant.

Security as an individual is essential. It becomes part 0f a evolution, from walls of a house to walls of communities and to national walls to even nuclear weaponry. These are not only the realities of today’s living. They have been around for thousands of years.

Since the conceptual big brother has taken the responsibility our house and its walls we have gained some respect but ultimate security is still illusive. We as societies, have evolved enough to learn and have accepted that a percentage of crime would always be a part of our civilized world. Nothing would be perfect or black and white so we some time sweep our dirt under the rug. We do the best we can. Sure, we play the blame-game and use our politics to blame even Devil for our deeds. No one should be hiding behind the Devil. We all should must take responsibility of our actions because as a subcontractor we become chief executive officer of our lives regardless of the belief system.

As we evolve we should try to educate our animal side to self regulate instead of us trying to kill it. This education is far more important for social harmony than strict rules. You can fear physical punishments but stray as soon as you find the danger is gone. Education itself points towards rehabilitation instead of harsh punishments.

We need our justice system and security because we have not evolved to the point where everyone of us can self-regulate and respect others as they must. We are still in the process of evolution so we understand that we have crime free societies. If you think you will be safe inside the walls of all kind, you have to think about the cost. This cost is not limited to the money. The stress and related health problems can rob you of your quality of life. Especially being mortal you just can’t afford to  spend your happiness and health on it. Without our physical side we can’t experience a quality of life  as it is given to us through God . This gift from God needs to be respected just like our spiritual side. In some religions, religious rituals are connected to customs such as  the killing of animals but do we really need to do this in the name of God?

Personally, I believe our life is a gift from God to enjoy in return of reciprocation. This reciprocation is connected to our spiritual side. If you don’t reciprocate it means you take and take but don’t give in return. This alone is a disrespect of God. Even if you claim that you have killed the animal side spiritually and you don’t contribute to God’s work, one must understand and accept that this is not the answer because you are trying to impress others around you but not fulfilling God’s orders. You do this as it is your need to express yourself to your belonging group. You may claim that you have inner peace by killing the inner animal side but you did not do  justice to yourself by sacrificing your physical life for the approval of your belonging group. This it is an extreme act  and anything extreme robs  you of  inner peace so do you really have any  inner peace?

Externally pleasing and impressing belonging group may give some satisfaction but it is not the inner peace we try to attain and keep. Without  inner peace you may potentially go against God’s wisdom of reciprocation.

If you are at peace inside,  you are, and you can and achieve spiritual entity. Being a spiritual entity, compassion, empathy, forgiveness, love and sacrifice are your jewels. Spiritual sides of religions preach all the above but the politics of sense of belonging usually strips the individual of these spiritual jewels.
These jewels are an individual’s personal spiritual property and they come with responsibilities of free will. If you have free will, you are responsible for your actions. You simply just can’t hide behind your belonging group’s desires. Why do you think that we all have our free will and sense of freedom? If you choose to act for your belonging group, it has nothing to do with  spirituality, it is all about the politics and you are the responsible one who has to choose. If you can think that you are not a part of a machine, that is not correct. You may be a small part of a machine or you may be The Machine.