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The Difference Between Religion and Spirituality
Isis©2004-2007
Organized Religion has become the biggest bane to mankind.
Why? Because each and every denomination wants to claim they have the
'only way'... the 'only truth' and try to shove it down your throat.
If you do not agree with them then you are condemned. And you want to
know the funny part? 'Not one' religion on the face of this planet has
the "whole" truth and nothing but the truth. One or two comes
very close, but is still lacking. But if you study each and everyone
of them you will find hidden within them all "pieces" of the
Whole. You put it all together and Walla! secrets are revealed.
Every Holy book has been changed and mis-translated by man, some intentionally,
others mistakenly, but still mis-translated. Religious teachings were
originally given to mankind to open their hearts, to teach them LOVE
of their fellow man, to help in their spiritual evolution. "Nowhere"
in ANY original teaching was it said it was ok to kill one another.
Nowhere was it said, if a life is not wanted get rid of it. Nowhere
was it said, it is ok to cut your life short if that is what you want
to do with it. Wars have been fought in the name of God. People massacred
in the name of God. God is LOVE. Not hate! You can't kill someone if
you love them.
The teachings were "guidelines" to help spiritual evolution
of mankinds soul . . . not dictations . . . not do as I say or go to
hell. Which by the way only exists if "you believe" it does,
like everything you self-create. The teachings were to give mankind
choices. You were given free-will to make choices and learn the repercussions
from those choices.
Spirituality is searching for truth and a way of life
and knowing within each individual soul it is "right' for them
. . . maybe not the next guy or gal... as he or she, has to search on
his or her own and find their own way, on their own path and learn their
own lessons they came into this life to learn. Spirituality is "allowing"
each other to do that without judgment.
Religion creates separatism. Spirituality creates Oneness.
I will no longer continue to call our Creator/God Father... for God
is ALL THAT IS... and one gender does not lord over the other. For ALL
IS ONE! None higher nor lower than the other. And The Christ Consciousness
is that which we all are striving for. We are all Sons and daughters
of the Creator/God.
And I write every word of this with Love for each and everyone of you!
For you and I are ONE!
Isis
For all his holiness, the Master seemed vaguely opposed to religion.
This never ceased to puzzle the disciples who, unlike the Master, equated
religion with spirituality.
"Religion as practiced today deals in punishments and rewards.
In other words, it breeds fear and greed . . . the two things most destructive
of spirituality."
Later he added ruefully, "It is like tackling a flood with water;
or a burning barn with fire."
~ Anthony de Mello, SJ ~
"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope
for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."
~ Albert Einstein ~
"You are not a Catholic, a Protestant, a Jew, a Muslim, a Buddhist.
You are a human light particle that loves in many different ways, and
no matter which way you love, as long as the end result is a betterment
of human kind, as long as whatever way you love is to experience more
deeply the love of Creator, then you will have the absolute just result
that you have wanted to achieve." ~ Kirael ~
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