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Since this is my number one hundred, I am going to start it with the message of Christian teaching, pure of politics of sense of belonging to the worldly business, yet it is just to remind the strength of the politics of sense of belonging which has been, is and will be robbing all religions of spirituality.
A while back I found an old Christian magazine called Awake. Dated Dec22nd 1988. I had kept it because I wanted to write about an article, so here it is.
On page 22 the article titled Religion and the world.
On page 23 it has a question and I am going to write, what was written word to word.
It starts with a question and I “quote”
Can a religion be approved by God when its clergymen bless men of war?
5. National rulers will totally destroy the religions of the world.
The Bible points to this outcome. Throughout the centuries, false religion has been deeply involved in the political affairs of the nations, even though Jesus said regarding his true disciples: “They are no part of the world, just as I am no part of the world.”(John17:16) Because of hobnobbing with the world, false religion is depicted in the Bible as a prostitute, or harlot, who has not been faithful to God. A Bible prophecy says: “Come, I will show you the judgment upon the great harlot who sits on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication.”-Revelation 17:1,2,18.
This great harlot” is thus like a woman caught selling sexual favors in return for high-level influence in the government. Her punishment fits the crime. God will cause a sudden, foreboding change of heart among her former lovers. The Bible explains that the kings,, or political rulers of the world, “will hate the harlot and will make her devastated and naked, and will eat up her fleshy parts and will completely burn her with fire. For God put it into their hearts to carry out his thought.”Revelation17:12,16,17.
End Quote”.
To some of the religious people politics is a passionate thing, yet their religious leaders had warned about the things to come. Today pope has changed his message to fit in and survive through the changing times. When I look at the American politics the numbers of people whom show up at Donald Trump’s rallies shows that the politics had twisted the spiritual values, regardless of his character and behavior he is going to be the president. I can only hope he does not rule or govern as his character, I hope it was all acting to get where he is, so now he can be helpful to all people.
Personally I think if you are republican and you are a religious church goer, logically you should be with, or vote democrats, because the real spirituality is in the values democrats stand for, social help to the needy is a spiritual thing so paying taxes to help someone in need is noble and spiritual. Look at the help provided by the social system, if you are taught that doing spiritual things is socialist, you have been bought into the politics, you have been sold. It is hard for me to understand that how spiritual values have been made into, and believed as non religious and non spiritual.
If a system stands for the mass and destroys the individual’s rights, then its against the spirituality as well. We all come into life consume certain amount of resources and pass on, and interestingly as we get old we can’t even eat and digest what we could when we were younger but our desire to accumulate never dies just the body dies, yet we continuously try to accumulate as if we are going to live forever. I wrote an article it calls reciprocation, (read reciprocation) in that I explained that we believe that everything we do in our living years is done by us yet everything is done after we have taken that free oxygen as a breath, so logically the credit does not only belong to the individual thus reciprocation is a duty, we all have to do. If paying a little part of your income, is a reciprocation so be it, thus it is not smart, not to reciprocate because it is between the individual and the source yet it is portrayed as it is for other human being exclusively.
Select and study any governing system, they are predominately designed to violate the individual rights and that is not because of spirituality, it is one hundred percent because of the politics, and yes even if they say, it is for God or people, yet there are very harsh punishments for the individual, to even state his/her opinion. They control with fear thus unacceptable and spiritually bankrupt, because injustice to even one person is against the spirituality especially when God’s name has been used.
Personally I believe they are even worse than the other ruling systems because they use God’s name to control and violate individual’s rights which goes exactly against the spirituality. Other ruling or political systems are founded on the politics, and they openly say so.
I strongly believe that religions can’t be or should not be used as political systems because we don’t really understand God with our approximately twenty percent brain power give or take, thus religions should have no place in our political systems. They should completely stay out of the governing business because sooner or later they will have to sleep with some political king in the name of politics and spirituality would be sold.
An other thing puts religions at odds with today’s governing systems is the equal human rights, because if you believe you are better than the non believers or even the followers of an other belief system, you automatically become a prejudice, thus can’t accept the equal rights for others. The state should have the power with the constitution which provides equal human rights and believes prejudice and racism as criminal behavior.
When people like Bill Gate, rock star Bono, or Snowdon cross the lines of religions and nationalism for the best interest of the humanity as a whole they become followers of the spirituality regardless of their belief system.
My writing is about raising awareness and pointing towards the things we are doing wrong as a human individual whether its in personal life or as a group.
Here is another thing I want to use as quote from the same article about the religion and the world. Page 22.
And I “Quote”
3. Stay neutral regarding worldly politics while looking to God’s Kingdom for the remedy.
Jesus commanded neutrality, and pointed to God’s kingdom, saying: “My kingdom is no part of this world. If my kingdom were part of this world, my attendant would have fought that I should be delivered up[ to an unjust death sentence]. “(John18:36) Jesus
also told the apostle Peter, when Peter took up a weapon in his defense: “ Return your sword to its place, for all those who take the sword will perish by the sword.-Matthew26:52. End Quote.
If Jesus was against even picking up a sword, how did we end up here, from going to crusades, to even modern day religious wars? It is all politics and nothing but, and why do the religions believe in harsh punishments for patty crimes? and why did it take two thousands years, not to judge the homosexuals or even divorce. The teachings of Jesus about the human rights had taken too long to turn things around, their are a whole lot of black marks on the face of the humanity religions have left and they continue to do so.
Law and order should be based upon the equal human rights, religions should let the politicians do their job and bud out of the political systems altogether, but the problem is in our nature. I have been talking about the politics of the sense of belonging since I started writing this Blog.
If sense of belonging is related with our physical side of the core, it is under the influences of our hormones, that means our religious politics is related with our chemicals, and chemicals go up and down all the time thus volatile. That means as an individual it our duty to make our decisions from beyond our physical living, sure it is important but as a human being we are not only a physical entity thus as a whole human being it is our job to make decisions from above and beyond our urges.
This is the next level of living and as parents we do that all the time, you can let kids to be kids but you have to think about the long term effects of living with splurges, so we try to let them enjoy life yet in control. That approach is needed by our leaders of populations, but unfortunately they are the one, whom have been and are leading their populations to destructive behaviors related with the politics of our sense of belonging which is connected to physical side.
I have discussed this subject a while back in an article calls five bucks. (Read five bucks). When people chip in their fiver, as a group they give birth to the politics, whether it be a family, community, nation, race or a religion and since we each carry our own cheques and balances, their bound to be the differences of opinion which gives birth to the politics.
The question comes to mind, can you keep the religion and politics go hand in hand? I strongly believe and say no to it, because to me spirituality is nothing but the truth and the essence of the politics is twisting the truth. Now the question is how can we keep the religious groups out of the worldly politics, Jesus had tried but failed, can we do that in this day and age? Well it is up to us but it has to be as an individual, one person at a time because if you are not a CEO you would not be able to see the connection of your strength to each other with your fiver.
Even when two people share their fiver in a daily life, just like marriage, the politics of power can come in. Depending on the education of sense of belonging, domination is related more, to up bringing rather than genetics. Gathering a lot of people with their fivers becomes a total politics, so the birth of political parties is inevitable, thus we have to have political system with equal human rights to rule our societies and a clear and constitutional mandate from the political parties as well so they can’t stray from the equal human rights. All over the world populations are going through a change, and the internet is playing a special roll in it. The best example I can come up with is that nutraceutical industry has been talking against the pharmaceutical for a long time and now the pharmaceutical industry is saying nutraceuticals don’t work or cause harms as well. We are caught between two big entities fighting over the individual so the politics of fear has been used lavishly. Liberals say the can of worms has been open so you can’t put them back into the can and close, yet Ayatollah Khomeini did that in Iran, and they are not quite out of it, and Saudi’s are doing it openly and Americans still help them yet they take pride in being the promotors of the democracy.
In today’s societies,, regardless of its imperfections democracy is so far the best humanity has to offer. We are far better off from the kingdoms, dictatorships or authoritarian systems like religions, because you just can’t do an injustice in the name of God, which is inevitable in ruling millions of individuals. A constitution of the society should be based on the equal human rights where an individual can take even the governing party to court for the injustice.