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Ayahuascasoul
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My Sunday sermon
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Let us open our bibles to Luke Chapter 17 verse 20-And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: 21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
This did not say that the kingdom of God is within one man or a group of men but in all men. So why do we allow hate and fear to creep into our hearts towards another group of people? Why do we use the Bible or Koran as a means for judgement and religious intolerance towards another group of humans that hold the kingdom of God within them?
Lets step back and imagine that you weren't born in America where Christianity is the norm or in the Middle East where Islam is accepted. Let's imagine you happened to be born in India or Tibet where Hinduism and Buddhism is the religion of choice.
If this happened to you and by chance you were born into another religion and indoctrinated into a different belief system, does that mean you will be sent to hell? I don't find this to be true. I have found that the idea of hell was put I'm place to use fear to keep you captive to your religion.
As a people of planet earth it just depends on what area of the world you have been born into that decides what religion you are indoctrinated into. Cognitive dissonance causes us to dismiss facts that are presented to us due to them going against our core belief system. Before the next time you decide to hate or cast judgement on someone else remember it could have been you indoctrinated into radical thinking like radical Islam, churches similar to the Westboro Baptist church or any other radical thinking religion.
In my personal opinion I see religion driving humanity apart as a whole. I see too much hate towards people who are different from ourselves. For myself it appears that the Bible and Koran are translated and taught to fit the churches opinion on any given subject. No matter what god you believe in, we all came from the same one.
I will end with a simple quote from yours truly, "you can find truths in every religion but that doesn't make any one religion the absolute truth."
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"You can find glaring flaws, hypocrisy, inconsistency and internal contradictions in any religion." ~ Swami
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Ayahuascasoul
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Yeah. Do you know that if the ark was real each animal would only have 6.5 square centimeters of room?
Did you know that the bible was put together by a pagan king 300+ years after the death of Jesus?
Did you know that one book of the bible says Jesus died on the day of preparation and another book says he died the day after Passover, why can't the bible get that right?
The story of his "resurrection" wasn't written down till four decades after the fact and early Christian texts say nothing about it?
Why did god need to rest on the seventh day, was he tired, all tuckered out?
Did you know on the first day god made light but didn't make the sun till day three?
Did you know Jesus says you should cut off your hands and pluck out your eyes if they sin against you?
Did you know Jesus said "So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I will make those who commit adultery with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways. I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am he who searches hearts and minds, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds. (From the NIV Bible, Revelation 2:22-23)"
This only son stuff doesn't work. He could have made as many sons as he wanted. He knew what he was going to do, he knew he was killing himself as his son.
Why do you think Horus is the exact same story as Jesus just a few hundred years before Jesus?
The bible speaks of rape marriage, child selling, murder, mutilation, slave trading and so much hate.
Religion was necessary in the old days to scare people into living right because the didn't have the laws or manpower to keep people in line like we do today.
Religion is like the appendix, we may have needed it at one time but now it can kill you.
"If I was The Devil I would manifest myself inside a virgin, say that I am the Son of God and convince everyone they could now be forgiven for every sin just by asking, thus opening the floodgates for an unprecedented and unending torrent of sin.
I would start with the uneducated and the poor. I would impress them with some magic tricks, teach them to pretend to eat my flesh, drink my blood and always, ALWAYS, use MY name when speaking to God.
I would most assuredly use my immortality to fool them into thinking I came back from the dead as proof of my divinity.
What better way to channel more souls away from God and straight into Hell?" LAS
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I'm just saying don't hate or judge based on religious differences. Don't harsh my mell brah.
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