I picked up an interesting book on Saturday, from the Care Center library and read it over the weekend. The book is “What God Wants” by Neale Donald Walsch. It was very interesting reading and here is some of what was discussed.
Robert Fulghum says in one of his books “ If we look both ways before crossing, if we learn to share, if we hold hands and keep track of each other, if we walk and don’t run, if we quit pushing and say we’re sorry when we do, if we clean up our messes, and if we stop fighting with our brothers and sisters” – we’ll get to grow up. But we haven’t done so. In all the millions of years of evolution, we are still in our infancy and haven’t grown up.
“Did you notice that the theology represented by our traditional teachings is a theology of separation ? Theology produces sociology. A theology of separation produces sociology of separation. Now it’s true that in spite of our sociology of separation, we have made some remarkable achievements. Human beings can split the atom, create a cure for disease, send a man to the moon and crack the genetic code of life itself. Yet sadly, many people – perhaps the largest number – cannot do the simplest thing…… Get along.”
“Violence exists at all levels. Allowing people to go hungry is a form of violence. Placing life saving drugs and the finest medical care out of reach of millions is a form of violence. Underpaying laborers while taking huge front office profits is a form of violence. Mistreating, underpaying, denying promotions to and mutilating females is a form of violence. Racial prejudice is a form of violence. Child abuse, child labor, child slavery, child prostitution, child trafficking and child soldiering is a form of violence. Denying civil rights because of someone’s sexual preference or their religion or their ethnicity is a form of violence”. You get the point.
“Only such a culture of separation could justify a world in which the income of the richest 225 people is equal to the income of three billion poor people. Three billion ! That is half the world’s population.” And we wonder why there is so much unrest in the world today. We don’t see that we are all in this together…we don’t see that we ARE ALL ONE. We “separate” ourselves from our fellow man and don’t recognize that the world’s problems belong to each and every one of us. We feel that OUR religion is the “correct” religion and that our God is the “correct” one…..we force a huge wall of separation between ourselves. And today’s society feeds these beliefs of separation and thus the unrest grows. We kill in the name of God…We invade other countries in the name of God…But is that what God wants ?…of course not.
“When it comes to its most sacred beliefs, our society will not tolerate new ideas that violate doctrine – or even question it. Thus we are trying to build a twenty-first century reality with first-century moral, ethical and spiritual tools. This would be akin to a surgeon stepping into a modern day operating room with a very sharp stone”.
“In May of 2004, a scientific study was done by Harris Interactive and the results showed that 69% of adult Americans believe religious differences are the biggest hurdle to achieving global peace.” According to these survey results, the majority of Americans know that a problem exists and that our beliefs need to change….We can no longer separate ourselves from everyone else. We are all one and there is one God….When we start to understand and apply that belief, then an amazing transformation will occur. Until that happens the chasm will widen and the problems will grow. If we do not stop the division, our civilization is doomed. We need to do as we were taught as a child, and look out for one another and then perhaps we will grow up.
“Evolution is an upward journey, not a downward spiral.”
www.nealedonaldwalsch.com
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