Spiritual Ga-Ga

Lately I’ve been challenged by a friend of mine to validate my spiritual identity. I studied Bible at a Bible college and have a degree in it. So I’ve heard all the arguments by Christians that we need a savior. I happen to disagree.

I am not responsible for something that may or may not have happened thousands of years ago. I wasn’t there, nor is it something I have or haven’t done. It’s that ugly word, sin, which I don’t believe in. I say I don’t believe in it the way we were taught to believe. I believe that we miss the mark of our high calling. In archery terms, that is a sin. But to hold someone accountable for something that allegedly happened in a metaphorical book is wrong.

If that means I’m calling you out, so be it. But to insist others live by your rules simply because you believe them to be true is wrong on a global level. There are many paths to the Great Path. Sometimes, they merge.

I am a deeply spiritual person. I believe in reaching for my highest self. I think that prayer and introspection are good. They are traits to be admired. Yet, when you believe that you must sublimate yourself to anyone for the sake of something someone else has said, that is wrong.

It is clearly a case of what is right with the world and what is wrong. We’ve lost sight of who we are as human beings. We are here to share this world and unite in purpose. Whatever that purpose might be. We are not to condemn others for not seeing things the way we see them.

We are here to live and laugh and love. Little more. I could go on about Consumerism, but we all know the real truth is how you treat your fellow man. We are to love one another as we would like ourselves to be loved. We are to honor the Divine in all its splendor. We are to be. We are human be-ings after all, not human doings.