I'm trying to be as open minded and as accepting as possible, but here is where I struggle to accept a way of believing. Everyone has the basic fundamental right to find their own way, and believe in what they want to. I find that no one has the right or authority to force another what to think or believe.

This kind of path you speak of, one that "requires" people to force their own path onto others, feeling it's "superior" or "the only way" is just plain...well, I hate to say it, but it's rather oppressive and inconsiderate. It's this mindset, "My way or death" that starts wars, brings about genocide, and makes men become dictators, overtaking a country and forcing their highly brutal regime onto the people therein. No one path to the light is better than another. We all seek the same thing in the end, enlightenment and spiritual growth. Why must there be a huge brouhaha over how one does it?

Why must there be a competition to be the top dog, so to speak, in the world of Spirituality? There is no top dog, no one and only universal truth that trumps all others. Well, other than the fact that everyone deserves to be respected for who they are, and to be treated as a spiritual and intellectual equal.

I'm very much trying my hardest to follow my core principles and find humbleness within my spirituality to know it is one of numerous and equally beautiful spiritualties, none better than one another, who come together in a beautiful rainbow of harmony on which growth and development can be achieved. I just wonder why people are so much in their own world of spirituality that they can't, or downright refuse to in some cases, open their eyes to see this rainbow. I respect their right to do as they wish, I really do, but I don't respect their trying to get me to see the world the way they do in such a forceful manner.

Okay, I think I've said more than enough here. I'm just really confused and perplexed I guess.