Kathy, Muffy, Perna, Chocolate, and All...

i was really hoping to refer to something besides the Bible and Jesus..

being raised in America, its nearly impossible to live without bubmping into those topics again and again and for me, its like a brick wall... unless i accept Jesus in my heart as my personal savior, according to "them" i can expect to go to Hell... i dont care for this type thinking...

imo, God is an entity separate from the teachings of any man or woman... i really felt a breakthrough at realizing that God can be seen, heard, felt... but to try and mentally diagnose becomes a puzzle with parts from many cultures and faiths...

i, myself, would prefer to see the Spirit as undistilled and as pure as possible.. personally, i find the Bible and its system o be an entrapment of sorts... conditions are placed upon my own Spirit in order to find and experience that whoch is free in its entirety.. how does one feel this free truth by boxing oneself into dogma?

It is the conditionalm acceptance that traditional Christianity places on my soul that i am uneasy with..

imo, God is aware of my human limitations and i am forgiven for that reason alone... i need not qualify for acceptance in Gods' arms... i was made by God for a purpose.. i agree with Jung that i have Moral obligation to uphold that purpose.. i do not believe in God as a damning judge...

i believe in God as a life affirming and supportive friend, one who loves me unconditionally despite my imperfections...

when an attempt is made to manipulate Gods' image for mans' gain, i believe this is the definaition of blasphemy...

to use the image of God to manipulate Gods' children is an act worth damining imo, but it is not Hell (after death) that one will experience, but Hell on Earth.. in the formm of war, social unrest, domestic violence, insanity, etc...

to use a path of salvation as an instrument to incite fear and intolerance and death is, imo, one of the greatest sins mankind can commit.. and if there is a Hell after death, i believe those guilty of creating Hell on Earth are destined for it...

God, imo, has no desire to see or participate in the slaughter of man...

this is why, imo, i am turned from the faiths which use and manipulate words to conscribe to evil...

i believe history repeats itself in many cases because of reliance upon ideaolgies that have gained large followings, led by those who maintain political connections and in turn young men and women find themselves on bloody foriegn soil... this is not what God is about imo...

any book or text which supports same, is not sacred and is not God, but the minds of wealthy, powerful and manipulative men and women... alive now, and working on their own goals, in this day and age, in the present...

then horrors of religious manipulation continue still... how long will we be the pawns in this game?

when will we break free?