Good old-time religion rears its ugly head again! The Muslims are on their mission to purge freedom of speech from their lands... who needs it? Who needs cartoons of Mohammed by those Danes? Who needs freedom of anything when Allah is lording over you from high in the heavens above giving you a life of beauty, harmony and love?
What a bunch of lies! Lies perpetrated in the name of religion. But it is not religion which is to blame but the interpretation of religious texts that demean humanity... interpretations by zealous, god fearing, religious fanatics that are hell-bent on shoving their interpretations of the "holy words" down the throats of those that are absolutely clueless to what wisdom has to offer mankind.
I'm certainly not a spokesperson for wisdom, but I do know that the origins of any religious practice began with the words of one person. And if you take that one person and introduce them to another one person whose words begot a religion, you'd have two people in agreement with each other's words.
Today, I am very annoyed with the behavior of the Muslims that are so sensitive to their religion that nobody anywhere can speak their own mind as to how they perceive this radicalism from the outside. The Muslims seem to be so tied up in knots over the interpreted words of their prophet that no one outside their circle of believers has any right to even hint of the weaknesses of their complete and total surrender to the religious leaders that have continued to repress those that follow them.
While on the subject , we as a Christian country, are running a close second in the menace of religious belief over reason of being. The Sunday airwaves and the daily cables are filled with the screams of Evangelists riding high on their horses sentencing those that do not believe with a lifetime of Hell as if this Hell is a geographical location and not a state of mind. It certainly does not help when these same judgmental preachers hollering out their interpretations as if they, and they alone, have a hot line to God.
How much longer will people blindly follow these radicals and their over-the-top judgements... their insane scriptural interpretations of wisdom only cloak Truth, their repression of humanity's innate desire to simply walk a path of peace and beauty? To these 'Preachers of Punishment and Penance' beauty is a Bitch Seductress that will lead all to eternal damnation. To these 'Imans of Idiocy' peace is the Path of Illusion and Ignorance paved by the evil intent of non-believers.
This cannot survive without being challenged. For if these fundamentalist fences are not brought down, people will never see what lies beyond. They will always be corralled by these snake-oil 'Saviors of Souls' who in the long run do little to advance the horizons of humanity. Indeed, they have been largely responsible for limiting human's inner-awakening.
We are under attack by Evangelists and Fundamentalists... their cause is the same - control the masses. Even more disturbing is the fact so many follow these Anti-Christs, (so-called because they themselves are 'Anti Self-Knowing'). They fear finding peace and beauty within for they are convinced there is a 'Great Man Above in Flowing Robes and a Long White Beard' watching every move they make imbibing them with a sense of fear over love.
Yes, love is what is at stake in these times. Love of humanity, love of our one world, love of compassion and understanding, love of the gift of knowing. For these adherents to the so-called Laws of God you'll find repression and fear... not what any benevolent and loving God would conceive of doling out to mankind or any other form of life.
The 'Words of God' can only be heard in the silence between the screams of paranoia and fear wrought by the religious zealots that have confined humanity. If an Armageddon should ever occur there is no God to blame. The blame will fall upon mankind and our inability to find the Truth and Wisdom.
Wisdom can only be found by questioning. It is a purely human quality and if one believes in God(s) it must follow that one must believe that their questions are a search for wisdom through a 'grace of god.' It is not incumbent to believe in God(s) to seek our answers nor is it destructive to search for belief in God(s). What is important is searching our deepest answers within and without... the answers are everywhere - we only have to wake up!
Awareness is one our biggest gifts from Life. It was given to us at birth. It will remain with us until we pass from this plane of existence. Awareness of being is acknowledgment of Now - not then, not when, not where, not why, not who or how, but NOW.
Too many followers follow those that pull. Too many follow because they are blind to Now. Too many follow for they are not taught by wisdom but are manipulated by the past and future constantly brought to memory by 'Preachers of Poverty' that convince the unaware that those that do not believe in what they say will go to Hell. These are the same people who live in Hell - repressed and guilty by every thought they have, psychologically wounded by words they have been hypnotized by, indoctrinated with... afraid to let go and experience the mysteries that they themselves fear and want no one else to experience. The 'Fear of God' is the fear of knowing.
<center>Wisdom comes to those that ask,
Fear stays with those that don't.
Know when to ask and
when to embrace the answer.</center>
All these wars... the bombing, the burnings, the blistering attacks upon one another... all because we don't know. We don't understand. Sadly, for believers, religion cannot answer all that we don't know. That takes ourselves to do. The journey is dangerous... there are no guarantees that any seeker will find the answers. But if we don't seek the answers we remain asleep, ignoring our potential to find our individuality, our freedom from the self-imposed bonds of fear that holds us from the greatest journey of all - finding our True Self. 'Know Thy Self' is not a commandment but an offer to go beyond the fences, beyond the corral, through the gates... open the windows, open the doors that have shut you out from Life, those things that have ice-solated your Self from freedom of Being, from knowing who, what, why, when and where this Self is.
It's the only revolution that has importance. The revolution of knowing that we are more than mind, we are more than ego, we are more than religion, more than science, more than philosophies, we are more than subjects learned - we are part of a magnificent existence that has no beginning and has no ending, where the mysteries are ceaseless and time is irrelevant - Now is the alpha/omega... Now is yin/yang... Now - be One with the revolution of the moons, the planets, the solar system, the revolution of the galaxies, the Universe - the singular One of All beyond Time, beyond Space, Beyond Mind... it is ours if we only wake up from our dreams of less.
Cecil
05 February 2006
