Please let me be clear!
Before anyone got too offended - I must say - outloud - that I am a firm believer in God. I talk to God all day long, actually both to myself and out loud. However, I believe God exists in everything - elements, people, places and things, all factions of thought and analysis. I believe you cannot relegate God to any one thing - to do so is an incredible insult to the Creator. God does not belong in a box. God is the box, everything inside and everything outside said box. God is omnipotent and omniscient. So brilliant that no stone is left unturned. Get outside of the box and see that everything that is co-created and designed is here by the same hands and once you see the macro vision of this world, it's difficult to say that modes of thought are heresy. Astrology, herbology, shamanism, crystology, dream work - everything co-exists in co-creation. Perhaps one day I'll 'splain what I think of 'darkness' and whether or not it plays into the cause and effect of original design by - you guessed it - God. Well - I guess I kinda just did - but you get the point. Everything is cause and effect. I don't condone Hitler or child abuse but I do know that those that choose to hold something and emanate what something looks like - teach us all to be different, better and whole. Who are we to say the soldiers didn't make a holy choice in having stoned that beautiful bearded man? If they'd not done so we wouldn't continue to ruminate on how to be better and more whole tomorrow and for the rest of our lives, would we?
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One more amazing quote:
"Religion is a group of scam artists that sell the calming idea that your body is a temple of God, while your mind belongs to them."
-Jose Carrillo