Jesus would not like the world today! I believe he would feel a great sense of saddness and failure. Jesus was given unto us and dedicated his life in the pusuit of goodness. He did not force one to believe by shear threat of etenal damnation but rather by giving himself as an example of how to walk, live and interact in and with the world. He was not perfect and he told of so... but, no one would listen. They could, but would not, understand that the he was just a human being born of flesh form a woman, no different than anyone else. He was not better or given anything, that we all were not given, at birth. The true knowledge of what is right and just are born unto all of us. They are not taught and can not be learned. If you were to isolate a child at birth and raise him/her without the teachings that we are all subject, both in the formal sense and in the world at large, that child would inheirtly know right from wrong and good from evil. Jesus was expected to be perfect and therefor allowing us to accept imperfection of ourselves. That is contrary to what his teachings were ment to illuminate. Nothing is perfect and that is ultimately important to understand how life evolves. The example, If gentics were perfect then there would never be mutation and then there wouldn't have been "natural selection". Without that we wouldn't be here today, or surely atleast not in the same form. It is the imperfections that make each and everyone one perfect. Jesus was exploited then and even more so today! That which, in his actions as a guide, he born, preached and left for all to help point them in the "right" direction on how to live, has been thrown to the dirt and trampled on. His name and likeness are used in ways he never intended. The instution of religion, the same one he rebelled against and would be crucified by, has taken on a life of it own in a self perpetuation. Jesus did not aquire wealth to make his statement, he aquired resources by which he used to help those in need of help. No million dollar mansions and rolls royces were purchased by the offerings of people who opened up their hearts and wallets, not because they were told to or made believe that by giving they would be saved, but given because he gave them the ability to feel others pain and suffering, and ulitimately the warmth of compassion. No one was excluded because they were of one sort or another. He demaned nothing and was given everthing. He was crucified not because of who he was, but for who he wasn't and inversely, We will all "go to hell" not because of who we aren't or precieved to be, but who we REALLY are! Hell is how others see you and how you will be remembered. Thats it! No firey gates or demons with whips, no your are left with the eternal knowledge that you were thought of in a dark way and no way to correct it, negitive in a positive world, because you took more than you gave. Too many of us have taken and taken and returned nothing.. the viod that is being created will swallow us all!
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Thanks as always for your blog. I try not to use the word, hell in everyday language, I also like to use Heal instead of fight, peace not war. I believe as you do that evil is in the eye of the beholder. that is the reason that I like using this quote, "Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change"
I also believe that too much of looking back through our history which concentrates on war, conquest, control of other peoples lives and money, is not the ethical and holistic way to teach our young to grow up into adult life, who in turn will then again teach their offspring the same misguided way in mind, body and spirit.
The dictionary tells us that a patriot (which is being used to influence voters to continue the Human Sacrifice of war)is a man or woman, who is devoted and ready to defend their country. The time of change is upon us when we could be starting to think of partriotisn as meaning defending the human race, the environment and our Planet from people who seem bent on destroying us and natural disasters which are damaging the earth. Nature itself is trying to tell us to change our way of life, are we doing this as a race, NO.
Nationalism in my humble opinion represents backward thinking. We have to got to start to think as a total race who has respect for other species and our Planet. More Later Mike Tenerife