What Religion Is This?

  • All humanity is one family.
  • Women and men are equal.
  • All prejudice — racial, religious, national, or economic — is destructive and must be overcome.
  • We must investigate truth for ourselves — without preconceptions.
  • Science and religion are in harmony.
  • Our economic problems are linked to spiritual problems.
  • The family and its unity are very important.
  • There is one God.
  • All major religions come from God.
  • World peace is the crying need of our time.

Do these tenets sound like things you believe? Did you know there is a religion that teaches these? What religion do you think it is?

You may be surprised. I was.

Leave a comment with your answer. 

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Peace

We say we want peace.

We want wars to stop. We want families to stop fighting amongst themselves. We want people to stop hurting other people.

In other words, we want everyone to ’just get along.’

Yet with all this talk about peace and getting along, we continue to separate ourselves from each other. We continue to fight for power and control. We continue to insist that our way is the ‘right’ way or, in the case of some religions, the only way. [Read more →]

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What Does God Want From You?

During one of my ’quiet moments,’ the question came to me — what does it take to really know God? Is there anything we must do to experience the reality of the Infinite Spirit/God-Force? 

I feel I know the answer, but it made me think of all the different rules and requirements that organized religion insists people do to know and/or ‘please’ God.

I’ve listed a few of the rules and regulations established by various religions here. Maybe you can think of others. [Read more →]

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