BrianSoddingBoru:
Let me share this video with you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shXFgsxaXXE
You may have heard about the migration crisis that started in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in Morocco and all European right wing parties calling for Spain to be suspended from the Schengen Zone despite the fact that almost all migrants who came to the Enclave a few days ago were almost immediately sent back to Morocco.
So we have Christians calling for more empathy and love toward fellow human beings and we have Christians and other who are mainly reacting with fear and asking (very legitimate) questions like “What do we do with all these refugees in our soil?”.
So the hard fact is that there is no one type of Jew and/or one type of Buddhist in this world. That’s a very important issue: As a believer in Islam I can tell you straight away that there is only one holy book in Islam right? But people are still able to add and extract and omit meanings in translations, distort historical accounts about the life of the prophet so that what is a purely spiritual self-helping endeavor is turned into a tool of creating flocks of brainless people that are easily manipulated and the core ideology is so distorted that the religion of peace (!) kills some 5000 people who did nothing to anybody in the 9/11 attacks.
My point of view on this is this: I don’t go into the intellectual debate with anyone anymore. That’s a really exhausting and endless type of endeavor (if you ask me). Instead I focus on the spiritual. Being into these things since decades I can more or less tell the difference between what comes from what I call “our Higher Self” and what come from the Ego. Pope Francis’s message above is a very spiritual message. He probably knows (or knew) that Europe cannot simply open it’s border to whoever has it hard in his/her country or origin. But he is reminding us of our common humanity and is calling us to make a compromise.
Israel too is a very “religious” project if you ask any of those hardliner Jewish nationalists and Jewish supremacists. I personally do not see any difference between them and/or the IRI and/or the political Islamists that are present inside all Muslim majority countries.
As an example: The best place to fool people and to convince them to give you some money or something else is around Churches and Mosques. People who have just been engaged in more spiritual endeavors will be more likely to share with you some resources even if you are a man or woman who simply is too lazy to work.
In the same way: The average men and women of our age are still very ignorant and gullible if you ask me. So this is how evangelical Christians are ending up supporting a very erratic US President (if you ask me) and are doing so because they think that this is the most “Christian” thing to do.
I’m miles away from that. I care only about the core spiritual messages in the main spiritual traditions. So I sort of agree with Pope Francis’s message above and disagree with the MAGA base in the US. And I am doing this based on my two decades or more of spiritual practice. I think that Political Islamists and Jewish supremacists are wrong. I think that Pope Francis is right. I am free to take a position on this right?
Let me share this video with you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shXFgsxaXXE
You may have heard about the migration crisis that started in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in Morocco and all European right wing parties calling for Spain to be suspended from the Schengen Zone despite the fact that almost all migrants who came to the Enclave a few days ago were almost immediately sent back to Morocco.
So we have Christians calling for more empathy and love toward fellow human beings and we have Christians and other who are mainly reacting with fear and asking (very legitimate) questions like “What do we do with all these refugees in our soil?”.
So the hard fact is that there is no one type of Jew and/or one type of Buddhist in this world. That’s a very important issue: As a believer in Islam I can tell you straight away that there is only one holy book in Islam right? But people are still able to add and extract and omit meanings in translations, distort historical accounts about the life of the prophet so that what is a purely spiritual self-helping endeavor is turned into a tool of creating flocks of brainless people that are easily manipulated and the core ideology is so distorted that the religion of peace (!) kills some 5000 people who did nothing to anybody in the 9/11 attacks.
My point of view on this is this: I don’t go into the intellectual debate with anyone anymore. That’s a really exhausting and endless type of endeavor (if you ask me). Instead I focus on the spiritual. Being into these things since decades I can more or less tell the difference between what comes from what I call “our Higher Self” and what come from the Ego. Pope Francis’s message above is a very spiritual message. He probably knows (or knew) that Europe cannot simply open it’s border to whoever has it hard in his/her country or origin. But he is reminding us of our common humanity and is calling us to make a compromise.
Israel too is a very “religious” project if you ask any of those hardliner Jewish nationalists and Jewish supremacists. I personally do not see any difference between them and/or the IRI and/or the political Islamists that are present inside all Muslim majority countries.
As an example: The best place to fool people and to convince them to give you some money or something else is around Churches and Mosques. People who have just been engaged in more spiritual endeavors will be more likely to share with you some resources even if you are a man or woman who simply is too lazy to work.
In the same way: The average men and women of our age are still very ignorant and gullible if you ask me. So this is how evangelical Christians are ending up supporting a very erratic US President (if you ask me) and are doing so because they think that this is the most “Christian” thing to do.
I’m miles away from that. I care only about the core spiritual messages in the main spiritual traditions. So I sort of agree with Pope Francis’s message above and disagree with the MAGA base in the US. And I am doing this based on my two decades or more of spiritual practice. I think that Political Islamists and Jewish supremacists are wrong. I think that Pope Francis is right. I am free to take a position on this right?
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