Beware!
Beware!
Religion
will swallow us whole!
It's
easy to be swallowed whole and drowned by religion.
It
is a kind of a narcotic.
Let’s grow Spiritually
Let’s grow Spiritually
even
though being Spiritual is oft counter-religious.
In many ways,
In many ways,
religion
gives us the message,
Don't
rock the boat.
Don't
challenge the system.
That
message,
promoted by the vast majority of Religion’s
powerful
is continually transmitted
through
a myriad of ways
to
numb us into submission.
Religion encourages us to accept its teachings,
Religion encourages us to accept its teachings,
doctrines,
dogmas, rites, and rituals
to
be quiet,
to
leave things the way they are.
But if we are genuine followers
But if we are genuine followers
of
the Prince of Peace,
the
God of life,
we
cannot be quiet,
cannot
leave evil the way it is.
We
must cry out against
religious abuse, intolerance, and
discrimination
because
by our silence,
we
consent to it.
Filled with a fresh Christmas rebirth of Jesus
within
our hearts,
let’s
take his loving, peaceful and joyful presence
out
into our hurting world this New Year,
and
courageously challenge
the
entrenched hierarchy.
Let
us imagine during 2016 a better world
where
ALL God's people,
and
ALL of God's creation,
(not
just the worthy, the acquiescent, the believers)
are respected, protected and cherished.
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