Superiority Stinks
And superiority taken too far KILLS as well. True spirituality will rise above duality. One can embrace whatever religion their environment or culture offers them without needing to do away with all other religions. The Twin Towers destruction cannot be followed by the kind of responses we were lured into. Our efforts have only killed tens of thousands more and created millions of enemies. Not good!
It is going to take a critical mass of people who comprehend and practice unconditional love in every religion to break out of our current duality destructiveness. There is no lasting peace when Islam and Christianity both claim to have the only true religion and all who disagree are either going to hell or need to be called infidels and killed.
If Jesus shunned even someone calling him GOOD, how can we call ourselves followers of him and contend we're not only good but all who disagree and BAD!
Why is it so hard to see that there is but ONE GOD and that he created EVERYONE? That someone grew up in the mountains of Tibet and is a Taoist following the Dao De Jing texts doesn't make him any less inferior than one who grew up in India, follows Vishnu, and reads the Bhagavad Gita as his spiritual text. The need to believe that one or their religion is SUPERIOR springs from a false sense of self-worth created by our ego. The natural result is fear-based religion.
We must move away from Hezekiah 20:90 says so and so and that can't be refuted! Can you feel the pride that goes with any such declarations? :-(
Can we embrace the proverb that pride goes before the fall and proclaim superiority at the same time? How does that work? Does it?
Having moved from a pastor paradigm to a spiritual guide lifestyle the main priority is to help people raise their level of consciousness. The key is to divest oneself from the laws of duality. There cannot be horizontal unity between religions (maybe a first step), but rather a vertical one that comprehends that we have all come from the same Source and that we're ALL return to that Source. and that is......GOOD NEWS!
About the Author:
As a spiritual-futurist, I interpret current events in light of possible macro-universal forces at play leading up to 2012, but not limited to it.