Verv wrote:What, exactly, are you accusing me of that is unchristian?
Verv, what is the message of the Christ? Of the New Testament? Is it about being superior to others? Or is it facing Satan in the Desert where he is proposing all of the riches of the world, to be a king, to be a general with the power of all the armies, to be the most powerful human being the world has ever known? Why would Satan propose that to the Christ if Satan was not the ruler of all the Mundane World? That is how you become an instrument symbolically of Satan. By allowing EGO to rule your head and your heart.
That New Testament message was about the Christ rejecting that Satanic proposal. He only serves the one true God. His lord. It means that he prefers being spit on, reviled, tortured, hated, and crucified and suffocated painfully and slowly in front of his mother and his closest disciples rather than fall for that Satanic lying mundane EGO traps.
That is what made him the spiritual redeemer of the Christian religious tradition. The Romans were polytheistic. They followed Jupiter, Diana, Apollo, Venus, etc. They were the most powerful Empire of that era. Deus.
Do you think Christ according to the scripture would approve of the hatred of African people who are mostly Protestant Christians in the USA? To think of them as not as human as the White people? And that they were an inferior people? When the entire Old Testament is about the old system in the Egyptian Pharaonic world. Moses led his people out of slavery.
When you study human cultures you have to study their major religions as well. What is behind the myth and also what is behind the human symbolism of a religious discipline. The Muslims bow and go down on their knees and pray facing Mecca and the Holy Land...a call to prayer. What are they doing. Submitting their EGOS to God. You have to say that you are nothing in front of the Creator. That is the core of Muslim faith right there. Submit the EGO.
The Buddhists are about slaying the EGO. They talk about it all the time.
Many major religions share that in common. Why? When they differ on so many aspects of worship and ceremony but they all agree that you have to have consistency in submitting the EGO. Take it out of the way. If you fail at that you are very much going to be captured by the Evil forces of the world. That is what they all have in common.
And in that I do think the major religions of humanity are very right. If you believe that your 'race' is the one who has the right to rule the world and that thought is embedded in your subconscious mind Verv? You will never be a great Christian where it counts Verv. In action and thought. In the end, we all have to die and go from this world. Feeding an ego full of lies about superiority and thinking of others as less than your group is the epitome of serving the Satan. For sure.
By their fruits you shall know them. Stormfront bears rotten fruit. Murdered people. Why? Because if you listen to that and take it seriously over time? It means you truly believe in something you never earned, never worked for and never did a thing to become. Did you pick being white on purpose? Or where you born that way? Everyone is born the 'race' or ethnicity they were born. What defines us are our choices, our values and what we put a lot of effort and work in becoming. When the only thing that is of grave concern to you is your color? Something you never controlled or did to earn? You become an instrument of lies. It is a philosophy of people who fear losing status. Status that is about the mundane world. Not the spiritual world that is what a truly Christian believer has to do in this world. A very hard road of sacrifice and a lot of inner work.
You always know who those people are....they do good works. Give good fruit. When those people die instead of rotten fruit (race based murders and angry people who felt hurt deeply by having their loved ones taken from them over hatred that has no justification) you are looking at rotten fruit Verv. Not good fruit. Rotten fruit. And that is not the purpose of Christian practices like prayer, and confession of sins and living a holy life in Jesus' footsteps.
Living a truly great Christian life is just about the hardest road there is to live in this world. But in the end if you remain faithful to it Verv? You get a lot of greatness. Transformation. That is the great reward.
Being a racist is not going to transform anyone into anything good Verv. It never will.
I have a great love of both science and studying it and a great love of studying comparative religions. They are very different. But it is interesting because human culture encompasses both paths. The logical and mental discipline of the scientific method, and the emotionally rooted and spiritual and also intuitive path of religious spirituality.
If you choose the latter it is about how good you are at LOVING people that hate, revile, and spit on you and make your life a living hell. Yet you keep yourself steady under that storm:
How hard is it not eating anything for 40 days in a desert? Or being under a lot of deprivation and wanting relief? Why do that voluntarily eh? It is about what has to happen to the spirit to take that torture that was coming and it was a very huge test of the Spirit.
Humans fail so many times Verv. They fail their brothers and sisters, parents and children, they fail at so many aspects of life. The only way they get the strength to live through those failures is being able to practice disciplining their minds, their hearts and their spirits. It is easy to be blinded by hubris and ego. I find it hard to even think of all the attachments one has in this world.
But in the end our destiny is a grave and becoming dust. You must find out what defines your actions in life. For your daughter's example and for everyone whom you love and respect deeply in your life.
In the end we are exactly how much we can love in this world. How much we can love and give. That is what will define us.
The ones dedicated to griping, complaining and worrying about winning race wars and ego trips? Is a wasted opportunity.
I hope you choose always love. First and second and third and last. Just love. Never fear and never anything that takes you from your love of what being a Christian is or should be about. Renouncing the world and only concentrating on what is transformational.
You are so lucky to have that child. She loves her father. And you love her. Imagine that magnified millions of times? That is supposed to be the tolerance and love of God.
If you are religious? It takes away every fear of anything there might be in this world. Full of war, and crazy thoughts of ego driven we are better. We are allowed to do this immorality. All that has to be thought about Verv.
It is very hot here. I think I need to rest a bit.
I have come to think of you with fondness.
You write beautifully always.
Adios,
T.