The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'
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As we move into the 21st century, there's what the Bible calls a 'quickening of the spirit.'Neale Donald Walsch
I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.
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And if we're all one, we need to stop our competition with each other. Most of the decisions we make are about survival and winning.
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It graduates to 'our state is better than your state,' and 'our nation is better than your nation.' And it circles all the way around to where it started: 'Our God is better than your God.'
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And because we are, somehow, better than they, we get to go to heaven and they don't. Christians will tell you outright that they believe that.
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It's a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we've come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a 'quickening of the spirit.'
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