I recently had dinner with a youth pastor of a local church the other day. His claim is that Christianity is the only religion that uses love to help others. I asked him if he had read the Qu'ran. He said no. I asked him if he had read the Hadith. He did not know what that was. I asked him if he had been to a Mosque, he said no. I then asked him if he had read the Book of Mormon, or the Talmud. The answer was the same. I told him that it is confusing to claim that one system of ideas is supremely exclusive to righteousness when, in reality, you know nothing about the traditions or faiths of others.
I am baffled at the notion humans have, that what they believe is exclusive to goodness. And yet we are largely ignorant of the experiences of others. Therefore it is impossible to qualify our ideas of goodness as the exclusive permission of God because our fears of the unknown have created the notion for God in the first place. If you need to believe that 2,600 years ago, God inseminated a virgin, the virgin had a child and the child was God in flesh, I am not here to call you foolish. The fact is that most people need to believe in authority to survive because they have no faith in themselves to make the tough decisions. It is the reason society organizes hierarchies of power. It is beyond foolish, however, to indicate that what you believe is the only way to achieve whatever it is you believe is established in the next life. There is a saying that says, "everything I am not makes me everything I am." This saying is a modern watered down version of the philosophic argument that the Law of Attraction is really the Law of Opposites. What propels two realities, often two people together, is what you cannot see, what you cannot experience or, in other words, what you do not know, because the past and the ideas of the future, and the unknown of what would have happened if you had made different decision, as well as the unknown of what may transpire in the future, is what guides you. It is the unseen force that moves you in one direction or the other. Therefore it is also consistent to suggest that what we don't know makes possible and is what motivates the desire to know; and though we may assign values to what we think we know, and call it knowledge, it is more accurate to call this knowledge an estimation. If we continue to extend this argument against exclusivity, we then must consider the plausibility that (the unseen world) what humans used to call angels and demons, are simply the electrons and protons of atomic energy. But what if these unseen atoms are actually universes, as quantum physics suggests? If we live on a planet in a solar system in a galaxy within a system of nuclear explosions called stars that, together, comprise a universe, then in reality, atoms are not merely atoms. (From a different perspective), we understand that, in reality and in perspective, the force of other universes establishes the reality of this present universe. You are looking for God to as the explanation for the things you do not know. But you are comprised of atoms. You, therefore, are a multitude of universes. Everywhere you look for God, you will find yourself. We do not know anything. We are estimating the value of everything. Even if we seek to experience everything and even if we were able to experience everything, there will always be that (what if) I had done something differently within that experience. It can be said that, from that perspective, the multitude of possibilities becomes an entire universe unto itself.
If we understand existence then, in its proper context, we must inevitably ask the question, (why pursue) knowledge at all? If we are simply guessing (estimating) what is the point? My answer to this reasonable question is (Perspective). With greater perspective, the quality of life is fulfilled. If you believe in an afterlife then so too will the quality of that life be established. Different versions of you, the infinitaneous possibilities of your life experiences, are the principle reasoning behind the movement and existence of the stars. Heaven itself is yours, and so is Hell. That is why the ancient Pagan Schools of Philosophy would argue presently, that what we call the Law of attraction is, in reality, the Law of Opposites. The idea that something created everything is an inherently false premise. It is false because the ultimate evidence of truth is life. Nothing would live and breath were it not the principle definition of truth because nothing comes from nothing. If One supposes that God created everything, whatever created everything would have come from nothing. If atoms are neither created or destroyed as the Law (of Conservation of Mass) indicates, then that type of thinking is not possible for the development of life. There would be no consistency that has propounded into the chaotic goodness we call nature. This type of thinking that routes everything back to a single existence that, itself would be inconsistent with the estimated value we have assigned nature and, refuses to acknowledge or communicate righteousness with all of its creations that do not acknowledge it the way it wants to be acknowledged is entirely the creation of human imagination. My argument to support this assertion is (quite simply) Life. Life is the one common factor that humans can agree is a right to the individual human as well as to all other humans as well as all other things. Therefore, that which supports and promotes life is the ultimate truth. And if the quality of life is determined by the ability to ascertain information, to know, (or) estimate the value of, then perhaps eternal life has nothing to do with (good) deeds or whether your God is Jehovah, Allah or Jesus. Perhaps eternal life has to do with recognizing that the other people you experience in this life is you from a different perspective because ultimately the lives that come after you will be influenced by what you do and what you do not do in this life. If you have the right perspective, though there will always be the unknown, the things you do will be great.
