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Yesterday on CBC news they mentioned that the church buildings have been sold dew to lack of attendance and the funds. In northern Ontario a church building went on sale for one dollar which inspired me to write this one.
I believe it has been going on for a long time but at a slower pace so the everyday individuals don’t realize it. It started when equal human rights awareness started to work against all kind of prejudice. Since most religions preach prejudice against the other religions and the people whom don’t follow the guidelines or rules of their particular religion. The preaching of that if you join, you will go to heaven that makes them feel that they become better than others just by following a certain religion and will go to heaven otherwise hell is the destination.
I feel this is one of the biggest blunder religions have made with their politics, because it does not count humanity as a whole, it just counts a certain group of people and that is what makes me raise my concerns about the politics hidden behind the spirituality. They have been preaching that, an individual means nothing which makes the individual feel insecure, especially about the after life, yet for thousands of years, no one has come back and told us or brought us the video evidence of heaven or hell yet we are told that we all have to believe blindly and follow the orders to even kill the innocents or get killed in the name of God. If we ask questions that makes us labeled as non believers, thus inferior to the believers. This war is going to go on until we master to balance between the sense of belonging to humanity as a whole and respect others as God’s people as well.
We have been, are and will always be an evolving entity thus our knowledge would always change, so any of our knowledge, which does not evolve with changing times would be considered archaic. Personally I believe spirituality is the essence of our existence, religions have survived because of this, but are being decimated or destroyed by it as well.
In the deep psyche of the human individual, helping each other regardless of any belonging group is a clear sign of the direct connection to the source, you can call it God. Religions come in the middle to make the individual feel that he/she is not worthy to have direct connection to God yet it is the individual whom performs the physical duties of God.
If you still believe that you somehow are better than all other human beings just because of your faith, you have to think again about it without the prejudice. If you don’t in today’s world you would be assessed as a person whom disrespects others and feel superior regardless of personal character, which is a no, no in spirituality, even it is preached by all religions to be humble.
When it comes to sense of belonging all religions become political and let the mullahs and priests to preach prejudice. They believe their prophets have kept the humanity alive yet it is not true the killings caused by the religions are unaccountable in the history and still into the present days it is hard to count the death toll of our extreme beliefs.
I personally believe all the human beings whom have helped the humanity whether it be, in spirituality or physical health, should be regarded as God’s people. For instance prophets of religions have had extra ordinary knowledge so they helped the people to evolve and care for others, my hats off to them for that, but the religions should have stayed spiritual entities. Since religion touches the human individual like a music and booze, it can drive them crazy enough to even kill and get killed over it, they should not let the politics of sense of belonging ruin their reputation as spiritual entities.
We neglect the people whom invented to help us beat infections or brought in the insulin, so we can carry on living. They deserve similar respect as prophets of God because they have saved millions of human lives or put quality life in life. People whom are politically charged and speak rhetoric against all other religions yet are alive with the medicine invented by the opposing belief systems should respect the individual who’s invention has been helping to keep them alive. A credit is dew, is a credit is dew, if you are a hypocrite in your personal life you would be locked into the prejudice regardless of religions or the sects of them.
It is illegal in the western countries, if you don’t provide the children with the medical care, yet there are people whom believe blood transfusion is against their religion and having more than one wives is perfectly fine so some of them have been put to jail. Religious freedom is present but the extreme has been changing as the time goes, every human knowledge is subject to evolve and adjust with the needs of time. Human rights is the new religion so you don’t want to be standing in the line up of people whom are labelled as prejudice and be proud of it. A medicine, religion or any kind of belief system should be there to help the individual to live this life better but if it is not the case who is responsible? you got it, it is you as an individual, it is your duty to use your religious faith for benefiting these living years. If it is robbing you of your happiness and even life itself you have to learn to make some serious adjustments.
Logical reality is, before you are Muslim, Christian, Pakistani, Canadian, black, white or brown you are a human being, whom is a creature with both spiritual and physical sides. If you are hungry for a while your spirituality, belief system and all the rules created by God or man kind take the back seat, so before you inforce any kind of rules, make sure no one goes hungry. If you try that, you would be disappointed to see the rules would be broken or even trampled on with hatred. The vary cause of killing each other in the same religions.
One may claim, but the reality is that, we all are under the influences of our physical side more than spirituality. All the good deeds come when the stomach is full. As a physical creature, whom is under the influences of hormones, which can be related with our actions, from the sacrifice for our belonging groups, to food and sex, people may have different preferences just because of their ancestral knowledge.
The troubles start when the individual start to think that he/she is better than the others just because of the ancestral knowledge. This prejudice is the dead dog(read dead dog) of our social ills, we blame the others of being wrong yet we need some fixing and making some adjustments in personal house holds of thinking.
What is right or wrong? The real wrong is, if you do something to others what hurts you is wrong simple as that. If we, ourselves get hurt emotionally from the love loss , then why everyone is hell bent to rob the others of love? it is the most unspiritual thing to do but religions have fought, and fought for thousands of years and are still at war with each other to commit this spiritual crime. It is not spiritual to kill, it is one hundred percent political because you want revenge of the love loss because it hurts. (read love triangle).
Instead of putting each other’s ancestral knowledge down, we should embrace and learn from it, we as humanity has to evolve in all areas of life. All societies learn from each other, heck they even steal the knowledge from each others, see all the hacking going on these days in all over the world, from brain drain to creating patent system is a clear sign of politics of domination because knowledge is power.
We are connected with each other a lot more than we think, it is like a human body consisting with all the different kind of cells yet can’t function without each other. I don’t call them our problems, I call them our facts, like global warming and speaking against the human rights abuses, connect us to become a humanity instead of a group, as a nation, religion or simply a gang of people.
Most religions have become political organizations, thus no better than socialism or communism. Since they have mixed the politics into the spirituality, and have came up with a lethal mix of perpetual killings it makes them inferior to modern day democracy so people are looking somewhere else to fulfill their spiritual gap. That is one of the reason why the houses of God lost their value.
Personally I believe living for after life has been touted by most of our civilizations and have political reasons and are not fare because it makes only the individual to sacrifice his/her present life, and its pleasures, yet some, whom can live lavishly with power and control. Why he/she is willing to sacrifice the very gift God had awarded to him/her personally?
It always boil down to the phenomena of sense of belonging. If you start to dig into this human trait, you will find the control and power to some, and sacrifice for the mass. This is completely and one hundred percent political, so as an individual we all have responsibility to understand the importance of this life, so we don’t rob each other of it, because it leads to love loss which can lead to perpetual revenge killings
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This life is given to us individually to reciprocate directly with God, we are only good for God’s work, when we are living this life physically. When we are dead we can’t perform physically thus can’t help in doing God’s physical work. This work of helping each other so the humanity could evolve as one entity meaning God’s physical survival depends on the physically living human beings. From universal health care to helping and reaching to the hungry and starving human individual, it is all spiritual duties of the human individuals. God can only help the needy physically with physical hands and God does not have them without the living human beings.
In spiritual world God is immortal and consistent, and in physical world we are consistent only as a whole humanity because we pass and reproduce, but as an individual we are mortal and inconsistent. This physical reality creates some serious insecurities for the individual, so the door of the God is constantly being knocked at by the human individuals. As an insecure mortal we always want everything related to security and control because we fear not only our lives we fear the most our love loss .
If one thinks that he/she is above all that, he/she may put more efforts in living years to get ahead and secure him/herself financially, but when the mortality comes knocking things change drastically and the fears and discontentment set in. So as long as we are mortal, there would always be room for God, in human belief systems.
Right or wrong is not the question, but it does come down to the individual’s honest efforts to succeed and reciprocate at the same time. Simply put, you can’t just sit on the table with a plate of food in front of you and expect the food to go into your mouth without any of your personal efforts, that means you are going too far, believing in God and have too much expectations. God can claim that you are equipped with the free will for a reason and yes that is my real message to the individual so he/she can understand the self placing in the grand scheme of life. Instead of buying into the religious or nationalism philosophies to feel inferior we need to understand each and everyone of us is the main essence of God himself and without the human individual even God’s physical work is not done. The prayers are not fulfilled the diseases are not healed without the intervention of the human individuals. Sure God is at work but not without the help of the human individual, take all the human beings out and see if any body cares whether the God exists or not.
Whether you believe in God or not, life needs evolution and evolution requires individual’s efforts. For instance you can’t build big muscles without using them, you can’t just practically wish and pray for bigger muscles. You just have to do something about it to grow them. When you take responsibility to do something about it, things start to happen and everything falls in place.
Remember the saying that God helps them who help themselves, so the question goes on, why there are very talented people spend all their lives playing music in the bars, yet some kid can become an over night sensation or superstar by posting a clip on the net.
Until we are able to use our full potential brain powers we just can’t understand and know everything there is to know, thus we should not, and I repeat we should not dis or kill each other over, our belief systems. Just like you can’t deny the successful musicians whom was in the right place at the right time, you can’t deny the individual’s hard work to reach to the top either.
Placing all your eggs in the basket of faith in God, or even in yourself, is wrong, you have to give the credit where it belongs. There is a lot more going on before you are able to do anything, and I mean anything. You have to go through both universes to get even a single task done. First the sky is not falling, regardless of the chaos in the space, so we can be alive with the oxygen, which we have no control over, then, when you take in that oxygen, it goes through your personal and internal universe to keep you alive which apparently, you have no control either you may be are told, but just look around how many people try to live even one extra day but can’t, so what makes you so sure that everything is done by you?
The trouble is that we are always evolving, so everything for us is inconsistent, and when we mix spirituality and the politics of our sense of belonging, we come up with our own belief systems or so called religions and their sects, isms like social and communism, even versions of democracies, and fight over who is right.
Since the human being is always evolving, at times his/her religious knowledge does not fulfill the needs of the changing times. Churches attendance would go up and down as the times change.
That is the reason why I believe God lives through the human beings, if the human beings are not there, the buildings mean nothing and they are just empty spaces literally. You can call it whatever you want but it is not a place where God lives. You can make the majestic pieces of architects but without the human beings they are just fine and expensive land marks, ruins or part of history. These days if they are being sold for other than religious purposes it is because the fulfillment is not found in the buildings it is in the people itself.
When a confusing situation is faced by a reasonably educated individual, he/she looks at God, religion and spirituality with the lens of their ancestral knowledge, which is bias because of the politics of sense of belonging. God and spirituality has nothing to do with it. Every problem we face today or have been facing, has been related with the same confusion, and yes that is the politics of sense of belonging to a one particular group of people.
Solution is to understand it as an individual, then and only then we will find the key to open the door to the next level of civilization, otherwise we will be doing the same, what we have been doing for thousands of years, killing each other over who is right or wrong about God but never really understood God, because we have not yet evolved to our full potential.
My fear is, if everyone buys into the Trump philosophy and becomes even more entrenched into the group politics of us and them, with all the weapons of mass destruction and heart full of hatred, we may end up proving the holy predictions right.
Since we all as an individual has a choice, instead of using the choice to follow the holy scriptures and claim that we don’t have a choice, we should start to look at the things as an individual choice. As mass we always influence the individual, this influence, even if it is related with the religion, it still is politics.
We call ourselves so called evolved individuals, Are we? Shouldn’t we be questioning our religions and constitutions as we evolve, and why not? Why these are so sacred? Especially if they start to go against the equal individual human rights. The blanket of the collective evolution is made of a thread and yes that thread is the human individual. If the individual is not respected the integrity of the blanket is in jeopardy, that is a common sense.
Spreading and preaching the words of divisions and disrespecting of the individual is disrespecting God and humanity as a whole. Going against the equal human rights in favor of a one particular group of people, is nothing more than the politics, yet it is sold to people as a religious, national, racial or now a days even gender duty.
If you disrespect humanity as a whole and equal human individual rights, it certainly is against the spirituality. Usually people go to the religious buildings to seek spirituality, so do they find God in the religious buildings? Gathering of any kind smells like politics to me, it breads politics and people gather together to seek security of all kind, which is deeply related with the way we vote yet there is no political party or entity other than spiritual God can provide security.
The question is does God lives in those so called homes of God? Today’s lack of attendance and funds are the cause of these buildings being sold is related to retaliation against the teachings of prejudice, religious involvement in the politics of all kind and working against the equal human rights. It should simply be a place for the individual to go to worship and I would go to the length and say every religious individual regardless of the religion should be able to worship God in the same building at the same time because the need of God and spirituality is the same so why the divisions. We have a saying we should not make a mosque out of a brick and half building. Whomever is seeking spirituality should learn how to separate politics and religion plain and simple.
Today we have people going to the worshiping places with the intentions to kill whether it be a church killing or mosque killings, yet in the name of God. No wonder our prime minister wants an apology from the pope for the residential schools injustices done by the Catholics.
How religions are concealing their political agendas behind the kind actions of charities. If a charity is related to convert and conform to any one particular religion it has nothing to do with spirituality it is one hundred percent politics regardless of its good deeds.
Ordinary individual is still seeking spirituality and is still leaning towards his/her belonging religions, but he/she is compelled by the personal insecurities as well. We all want to control the unknown, we want to have that ultimate control, what we perceived to be possessed by God, we want it and we want it badly yet the mortality has not changed in to immortality regardless of our efforts.
Our mortality is a reality regardless of the extension of our average life span, that is why we still don’t want to acknowledge that, so we live a life of control, even if it robs us of our health, happiness and contentment.
If you are a religious person and really believe that you somehow are better than all the others, you already have gone out of the spiritual boundaries, because spirituality makes the individual humble with self-esteem and deeper belief system of hope. Politically charged religious fanatics have falls self-esteem which robs them of spirituality, that is why they are able to commit spiritual crimes, yet in the name of God, God gets a bad name because of an insecure person’s insecure actions.
Religions are full of stories of God’s interventions, which makes me think why God is not stopping all the perpetual killings done by the religious hooliganism. I believe we have to do some heavy lifting to gain some more knowledge and evolve to the next level. We need to take more responsibilities as an individual so we can learn to separate and distinguish spirituality and politics of our sense of belonging. Each one of us is able to contribute in the evolution of humanity, we just have to assume our responsibilities.
In true equal human rights, one should not have to seek security in his/her own kind. A human is a human, is a human, in this day and age we should know that by now. Why do we have to seek security, if the humanity is present as a whole. No one should be inferior just because of the color, sexual orientation, nationality or religion. The reason we are drawn towards alike is the security, and if you look at the social crime rate and everyday killings, our own kind is the one with the worst record for the individual.