07-16-2011, 09:48 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-16-2011, 10:18 PM by Tenet Nosce.)
(07-16-2011, 05:21 PM)Bring4th_Monica Wrote: The reason people say God 'blesses' their family, their country or whatever, is because of the Biblical thinking that God 'favors' the 'chosen few' and that certain people are on the 'side of God' while others aren't. It's elitist. The entire "chosen few" and "saved few" is elitist. It's a corruption of what we know about the Harvest.
I agree. I have observed these views to sometimes impress themselves upon the Law of One and the Ra material, although there is little evidence within them to support such a belief in separation and elitism.
Sadly, there is so much wisdom that the three Abrahamic religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, have to offer humanity that gets largely ignored due to the schism in the group mind that results from fundamentalist thinking. I like to call this schism the "Wrinkle in Time", after one of my most loved childhood books.
What fundamentalists fail to discern that it is the fundamentalist mindset / mental program itself that is getting in the way of the spiritual mission. Hence, I believe they would benefit from a change in their entire mental operating system. How to affect such a change in others, I don't know. According to Ra, changing others is quite impossible.
But I can see how even otherwise well-intentioned and service-minded activists can sometimes get caught up in this sort of absolutism and fundamentalism that is so divisive. It is such a sad sight to me when service is withheld until one accepts the doctrine of a particular savior, or guru, for example.
I take a syncretic approach to religion that recognizes the interconnectedness of spiritual teachings throughout the entire current cycle of human history. I think each has something to offer, and I do believe that, at some point in the future, they may come to be reconciled once again.
Assuming, of course, that we don't blow up the planet with nuclear weapons again! :-/