by Jim Bradley

Created on: May 15, 2008

I am Spiritual, not religious but that doesn't make me any better than anyone else and I don't have a holier than thou' attitude to my life nor my beliefs. All those who choose to sit in church, praising Jesus Christ, or Allah, or whoever, none of them are any better than me or anyone else.

One of the differences between me and (some of) them though, is that I don't get down on myself for being a sinner. I screw up and make mistakes just like anyone else. I try to learn from those mistakes so I wont do it again but if I don't, then I know they will come back around again and, hopefully, I'll do better next time. If I "sin" then that is something between me, my conscience and my beliefs. If I am a sinner it is because I would know if/ when I do something really wrong, not because someone else tells me I am one.

What my Spiritual beliefs give me is an awareness and acceptance of Spirit in all things, the connection of all living things and the sanctity of all life. It gives me an understanding that, (despite what the religious zealots believe), there IS only one God and we ARE all going to the same place and that there are many concepts written into religious teachings that have come from man, not from God..

That one God is not Jesus Christ, Mohammed, Allah, Shiva, Buddha, Yehovah, etc, etc. That one God is ALL of these, and more. That is where a lot of the confusion and divisions come from you see, because each religious faction believes that its way is the only way and that their God is the only God and that all other religions have got it wrong and are risking eternal damnation in a burning fiery pit if they do not conform and obey the teachings of whatever they are told to believe.

I was raised as a Catholic but I no longer practice as a Christian. I do believe that Jesus Christ walked the earth some time ago - as an advanced soul - and that the messages and parables he spoke at the time were misconstrued and misinterpreted and some of the teachings from that time were deliberately amended and altered by those in power who already knew of the threat which those messages posed to them.

That still applies today. It would be unacceptable to those that be to have the multitude knowing that they are truly free, that they have free will, that they are powerful enough to create and self determine their own lives and that they do not need any leader, political or religious to tell them how to live their lives.

There is no book telling me what to believe, defining what

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