Today I’m grateful for knowing the difference….
(something I learned long ago while attending Catholic school)
between religions that are kind, loving, compassionate and giving
and religions that are cruel.
For I believe no religion can call it self holy…
when they do their best to create…
within their followers
cruelty, prejudice, anger, animosity and hate.
Jesus lived, and
Jesus died,
Jesus laughed, and
Jesus cried.
Jesus loved, and
Jesus felt,
Jesus stood, and
Jesus knelt.
Jesus heard, and
Jesus thought,
Jesus prayed, and
Jesus taught.
Jesus healed, and
Jesus fed,
Jesus preached, and
Jesus led.
Jesus lived, and
Jesus died,
Jesus is risen, and
He is alive.
Religions are but oceans and seas.
They separate us and yet connect us.
Beneath the waters there is land.
The land is the throne for all living beings.
Different generations
Different life styles
From deficiency to abundance
From neglect to care
From basic education to higher education
From man monopolization to women arising
From single income bearers to both parents working
From self-raising babies to baby sisters to nurseries
Different generations
Different perspectives of life
Different hazards
Different confrontations
Who is happier
Man is always curious and greedy
They always make problems to be solve
Like pollution, wars, bribery, disputes,racism
Who is happier
Finally they will lean to religions
But who knows God is not to be bribed
God will only help those who help themselves
waiting for their turn
for the verdict of their gods ~
birds and blossoms laugh
14 January 2022
Muslims build temples
Hindus build mosques for Muslims ~
this is India
14 January 2022
Dogmatic supremacy,
loyalty to divinely-inspired causes
of a nation
or denomination
or religion
or tribe
chosen to be blessed
above all others,
dismissed
and denied full Love Matters
significance,
Is rather like evangelical capitalism,
an anti-ecological colonization,
pushing win/lose
us or them strategies
in which runaway economic competition
is right,
righteous,
sacred duty for evolving monotheistic historic might
of divinely blessed
StraightWhiteMale transcendent
sins of anthrosupremacism
LeftBrain verbal dominant
reduction to either TruePower
or FalseLight
fundamental dualistic deductions
Uninformed
but not unformed
by ecologically inclusive loyalty
empowering poly-theological solidarity
win/win cooperatively enlightening systems,
Perpetually more inclusive
of possible inductive/deductive resolutions
embracing more than reductive traumatic dissonance,
enlightening deeper intuitive compassion
for narrating WholeEarth mediating
ecowomanist GoldenRule conclusions.
Ecological healthy loyalty
serving
empowering
enlightening theological wealthy solidarity
of all nature/spirit polypathic EarthTribes.
Politicians preaching now religions
Religious souls practicing now politics
Politicians in critic of ones in religions
Religious in critic of ones in politics
In silence innocent masses in between
Madness is human nature and it’s mixed in the wonderful human system with no one in exemption,it’s scale and magnitude person to person varies,a clue is available just to identify who’s a madman,to say he’s the one dreaming to end up or to close up a religion,the point where he’s ignorant is unknowing a religion isn’t a toy made in China it’s a very smart output from the wisdom of God instead!
Some people say
Cremations
Out of their religion
Some people say
Cremations
In their religion
All I have to say
Every religion to respect other religions
Smoking is an act of prohibition
In many religions
For many reasons
It’s a suicide,Waste,harmful
Pollution and so bad
Religions are God’s ways
Prohibitions to keep away
Heaven is a prohibition
All violating prohibitions
I learned acceptance early in life as my household was a little odd
My father was German Jewish…my mother Irish Catholic…
which meant they prayed to different gods.
I was exposed to both religions and the more and more I grew
when I was asked…I never knew…if I was a Catholic…or a Jew?
Whenever someone sneezed next to me…I didn’t know what to do!
Should I say Gesundheit…or Shalom…or go with God bless you?
But being raised with this disparity was one of the beauties of my growth
for having two religions meant that I accepted both.
And when I went out into the world it made it easier to be
more accepting of all the other people who did not think like me.
I made friends with people whose Gods had different names,
different clothing, different hues…
whose Gods did not resemble at all the two Gods that I knew.
But having grown up with two Gods I found it easy to get along
for whose to say my Gods are right and all their Gods are wrong.
And though it’s made acceptance easier
as I’m able to see how each God pleases…
It has left me now more confused than ever…
when anybody sneezes.
Religions of habit..
The simplicity
Of the Teaching
Amazes and brings
Skepticism..
Why..it is asked
Was this not found
many eons ago..?
A legitimate query
From our habitual
Reference..
Yet..each of us
Might set our habitual
Religion aside
At any time or place
And recognize
Under our habits
What we have sought
For our own eons...
The snow comes on the rumblings of mistakes
As alien nature not named but numbing all the same
Comes crashing, colliding by accident in atmospheres
In fear, chrystals of silence remind us of the loudness
How unkind ice can be accompanied by snow
Once released to tumble down to mimic giants falling
Blinded by colors not of their making
Time stops but not before the storm unfolds
Takes its toll on the unexpected visitors
Drifting by they pound the ground in homage to refrigeration
Rocks stand their ground for a second and by chance
Turn into sand if aging is permitted in their presence
Snow can be dangerous even at a distance if not respected
Ten foot trees below the timberline are frozen solid
In solace they take their weight for granite in repose
Granted, their seismic temblors can cause earthquakes
When landing on the heart is no mistake
Branches pray in their bankruptcy to winter mysteries
At what cost if they should lose their souls to snow
If this were any other planet other than Earth
Each snowflake would be lost to the significance
Of being worth its weight in gold
Nothing made more peace and love,
Nothing made more tangible brotherhood,
Nothing made charity spread,
It is nothing other than religions.
Nothing spread more hatred in the world,
Nothing bred more bitter enmity,
Nothing flood the world with blood,
It is nothing other than religions.
When we think our religion is good,
And neighbor’s also good as mine,
Then we see peace and love,
Charity and brotherhood in this world.
When we think our religion is good,
But my neighbor’s not as mine,
Then the hatred and enmity rises,
Flooding the world with neighbor’s blood.
Let us accept all our religions,
And worship God with every one of them,
In whatever form he worship him,
Tolerance is not what we need.
Let us take Mohammedans’ brotherhood,
Let the Christians teach us charity,
Let us become spiritual as Hindus,
Acceptance is what we need.
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