My Order Beats Your Order

I am spending the week of July 2-6 looking at the devastating impact of literalism and fundamentalism on ALL religions, but not on this web site. There’s information below for that. I mention this because in establishing an “order“, it can’t be one of comparison, competition, or ranking. It IS and it exists for the freedom of ALL to worship God as they please. It is fluid, flexible, and pourous. Here’s why.

It seems that almost all religions and or denominations like to set up four walls and then tell people how they can live and function inside those four walls. Or at least how they “should live“.

Timothy Freke put it this way, “As long as people lived inside a hermetically sealed culture, with only one religion, and one sacred text, everything was fine. But whenever cultures collided it soon became apparent that there were many different sacred scriptures inspired by many different gods saying a variety of contradictory things.”

So, what does one do with that?

You practice love, compassion, mercy, forgiveness, and tolerance! And you don’t set up an ABSOLUTES that your religion has that others don’t have. Which is exactly why literalism and fundamentalism are keeping tensions elevated and religions fighting one another.

 All three monotheistic major religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) have their faction of “fundamentalists” that are hell bent on destroying the others- in the name of God, of course. So, if you want to get a glimpse of the history of literal fundamentalism, CLICK HERE, Monday July 2 through Friday, July 6th.