During my years as a Christian I was very good at presenting my viewpoint (this was called evangelism) and also very good at attacking opposing viewpoints (this was called apologetics). I spent many hours studying the various religions, cults and other wrong world-views, and learnt ways to argue how wrong they were in light of the teaching of the bible.
From my reading of “Conversations with God”, I now see what unbridled judgementalism ruled my mind, and have now discovered (re-membered) a far better way of living:
“The job of the soul, of course, is to cause us to choose the grandeur-to select the best of Who You Are-without condemming that which you do not select.
This is a big task, taking many lifetimes, for you are wont to rush to judgement, to call a thing “wrong” or “bad” or “not enough” rather than bless what you do not choose.
You do worse than condemn-you actually seek to do harm to that which you do not choose. You seek to destroy it. If there is a person, place or thing with which you do not agree, you attack it. If there is a religion that goes against yours, you make it wrong. If there is a thought that contradicts yours, you riducule it. If there is an idea other than yours, you reject it.”
(quoted from CWG, Book 1, p78 )
August 11, 2008 at 4:18 am |
Amen to that.
I was the same way, heck I even went to Bible school got ordain so I could defend the Faith, Teach God’s People his word and save the world from certain hell. Wow, it’s funny now. The thing that I now realize is in order for me to be right, others had to be wrong. This created Tension and what I call Soft Terrorism, where I kill folks with my words. That is the Spirit of Judgment.
Peace and Love!
August 11, 2008 at 3:57 pm |
Evig,
It almost seems likedr a dream now that only a few years ago we were died in the wool members of the christian machine and marvelled that others could not embrace the obvious truth of our worldview!
I think that the creation of the duality of right and wrong is a necessary part of the illusion we call reality, as it enables us to choose. How can we choose “right” any more than “wrong” if there is nothing else to choose from? The key – it seems to me – is that we make our choices from a place of awareness, conciously choosing to label things “good” and “bad” in the awareness that by assigning such labels we define ourselves.
Thanks for swinging by,
Jon
August 22, 2008 at 1:38 am |
i know wha you all mean, when evangelism start. one’s first words are I am not here to judge or argue with you. where in actual fact that is what happens. peopel go on and on about leading other people to the ‘right’ way and still do ot the ‘wrong’ way.
all my love
rirha