What Are Your Intentions When You Claim A Belief System?

As a child of age 8 or 9 I became fascinated with the teachings of Christ. Probably specifically His Love. Real Love, which transcends all, which heals.

As I grew into adulthood I observed that people used the various dogma and doctrine of their paths to separate us, argue, fight, even to the degree of causing wars and killing. There's something wrong with that.

The Taoists say that to try and describe the Tao is to not know the Tao. I think that to worship a person and miss the message they taught / teach is insane, and that's what religion seems to accomplish. I would rather not be associated with anything and yet accomplish Being the Love that Christ taught. What you believe isn't as relevant as what you live. If True peace and Love are not in it, you're in alignment to create disharmony.

Peace is a reflection of Love. If you fail to Love and be an expression of that harmony, then it matters not what your doctrine or dogma say. If you disbelieve in anything called Divine, but live Love, Honor and Respect, you live a purpose for which we all should strive.

It is better to seek to understand than to be understood.

So I ask you to ask yourself, what are your intentions when you claim a belief system?

Believe In ...Humanity

And that doesn't require a belief in a Grand Organizing Design (GOD).

"God bless America". No! Please God bless Everyone, Everything, Everywhere. That's what 'God' is about, if you're 'about God' then you get that. And if you want your RIGHT to believe in God than how can you not respect another's RIGHT NOT TO? True spiritual understanding / faith / belief, gives the same respect it would expect in return.

I'll never understand why we have the symbols and wording on our money as we do. (I've studied their origin, not what I'm referring to.) They don't belong there! "One nation under God" does not belong in our pledge of allegiance, any more than Baphomet in statue form belongs at a state building. All of it should 'bother' you the same. Athiest, Agnostic, Christian, Buddhist, Taoist, Hindu, -fill in whatever blank -you're a wanking, buggering idiot if you're unable to see past your 'beliefs'- that Everything we have needs to be about Love! You / we fail one another when we fail to be humanitarians. Epic, epic, FAIL.

Religion is a way of dividing us, people, humanity. "United we stand, divided - WE fall. FALL.

"The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves." - Dresden James