Seeds in the Jar

I admit that I am an idealist, but I have enough of a sense of freedom to balance my sense of belonging. I like to question and evaluate everything using the best of my common sense.

I believe every child is a seed of God and should not be judged as legitimate or illegitimate because societal norms change with the times. As long as you function physically, help, and benefit human society, you are doing the work of God. We are all born through the same process and are individual human beings, not mere extensions of any ideology or exclusive group.

You should never be victimized by the customs, traditions, or rules of groups or religions. This isn’t just about law and order or human rights; it’s also about spiritual justice. After all, you had no control over your birth, making you innocent on two levels.

The same applies to mixed-race or biracial children. Our prejudices and discrimination stem from our sense of belonging. The moment you are born as a human being, you become part of humanity, not just a specific group of people who may discriminate against you. If one believes in God, then God’s importance cannot exist without humanity—never mind the groups, nations, or religions.

Somewhere along the way, someone made man inferior and God superior, leading to a reversal of roles in the politics of control.

Dictatorships, authoritarian governments, and religions have power and control in common. They all seek to prevent individuals from reaching their full potential, metaphorically keeping people as seeds in a jar, regardless of their potential to bloom into trees and create forests. This is nothing more than the politics of belonging.

People with a strong sense of belonging and a weaker sense of freedom accept these boundaries as God’s will, remaining in self-imposed prisons that rob them of their potential. I believe this is against God’s will because each of us is blessed with our own free will. If God wanted us to remain in the jar, we wouldn’t have the evolving and flexible potential that we do. It is purely human politics that keeps power in the hands of a few. When God is used in this political game, ordinary people gladly give up their power in favor of a sense of belonging.

Human potential is, in fact, God’s potential because it is through men and women that we progress and make God almighty. For example, today we can predict the paths of storms and tsunamis to save lives, something we couldn’t even conceive of in the past, leading to sacrifices like throwing virgins over cliffs to appease God.

Our potential drives us to evolve and take charge, becoming godly creators. We invent and innovate daily for the benefit of humankind. These are all miracles of God, but they come through ordinary people because life’s complexities are not fully understood, and our mortality is a bitter fact. The proof of our evolving nature lies in the discoveries we continue to make in every aspect of life.

If you look at spiritual knowledge, it has always come from extraordinary men like the Prophet Muhammad or Jesus, who had to make extreme sacrifices to deliver their extraordinary insights. The resistance or hatred from their opponents, and even today’s conflicts, are rooted in the same foundation: the politics of belonging.

Unfortunately, even our prophets couldn’t escape the politics of belonging. This type of politics takes over every group’s leaders, leading them to resist change for political reasons. New ideas and ideologies are adopted by us when politically convenient.

Interestingly, religions have often done the same things that happened to them in their early stages. Killing to maintain the status quo is a conservative ideology born of the politics of insecurity. A large segment of the population resists change initially, with some eventually adopting it over time, while others resist out of political conservatism.

Evolution is like a river’s flowing water; it regenerates, improves, and prevents stagnation, forming a boundless ocean. Stagnation, like a pond, inhibits progress and evolution, keeping individuals weak and unable to benefit themselves or society, allowing the powerful to remain powerful. The hidden agenda of any political entity is based on the group’s insecurities, yet the real power for all groups lies in the ocean, or in other words, humanity.

As humanity evolves, change comes, inevitably meeting with conservative resistance. Today, the world is grappling with issues of race, gender, and sexual orientation. It is clear that conservatives are losing this battle because today it’s all about human rights, and no one can deny that politically.

Advanced and secular societies have stopped putting people in jars to inhibit their potential, as new knowledge has proven that the more trees you have in a society, the better and more powerful that society becomes. Controlling societies are progressively becoming a thing of the past. The world is undergoing a change, so there will be chaos for a while, but things will settle as we evolve to the next level or chapter of humanity.

Religious people must accept these changes as God’s will and should not resist them because, in the end, God does things the right way. The individual who is insecure and has doubts is the one who doesn’t truly, deeply believe in God. True belief alleviates stress, instills hope, and makes individuals soft, compassionate, forgiving, sacrificial, and loving.

We should all ask ourselves questions about our belief systems: Do they contain these jewels of humanity? If not, it’s time to surpass them and come together as human beings. Intentionally killing the innocent, even children, is neither religious nor spiritual—it is purely political and aimed at controlling the uncontrollable changes.