Find your path, I'll find Mine - May 26, 2004

I'm right, your wrong. I'm saved, your not. I'm going to my heaven, your going to hell. These is the attitude of those who have "Found God." Now that they have "found God" they know that everything they do is right. And, since you haven't "found God," they know you're completely wrong. Your going to hell... remember?

Often I find that the average person who has "found God" is a person who once lived a life of completely debauchery. What amazes me is how they can live this life of debauchery, and later "find God." Suddenly everything they used to do, you can't do. Suddenly you aren't allowed to have "youthful indisgresitions?." Because now all their former sins have been erased, absolved, wipped away clean.

The biggest annoyance from someone who has saved is they now think you should be "saved." Of course their direction, their God, their idea of the ideal is the path to being saved. No other path has validity. So you will be saved, even if they have to cram salvation down your throat. They can't keep this new found salvation to themselves. Oh no, they must save each and ever one of you. No matter that each of us has to find our own path in the journey. It's their way, or the highway to hell.

Every religion feels this way towards those who are not converted. But they can't all be right. The reality is that, if you believe in God, there are as many paths to God as there are grains of sand on a beach. There is no one path that is better than the other. No one path that God has chosen over another.

Fanatical views of the so-called "Word of God" are used by those who wish to control the masses. They are not a good gauge of the humanity in each and every one of us. Often these words are used to justify the worst in ourselves. And those words are somewhat hard to believe, after having been translated, and translated over and over again. The original meaning, spirit, and verse, has been lost forever. To make a copy of a copy, of a copy, of a copy, or a copy, of a copy, etc., is not knowing what was in the original. As a matter of fact, it's quite possible that there is nothing of the original left. Each generation puts a bit of a slant on the translation, to fit their agenda. After so many generations, the content of the message can't be trusted to be anything like the original.