by Kerry Brooks

Created on: February 18, 2007   Last Updated: February 28, 2007

When you consider the state of the world today you can clearly see that the need for people to be "right" about there religion is leading us to war, hatred and evil.

As I look around the world I see nothing but diversity. There a millions of different types of animals and plants. If you look at just a small group of ants, you see that each one is different and unique. There is no one way to breath, more than one way to eat, more than one way to grow, more than one way to build. Nothing in the universe exists in only one "true" way. It would be stupid for us to take a dolphin out of the ocean and tell it that it is breathing wrong and has to breathe exactly like we do because we know the "TRUTH" of breathing.

Why would a God who created such unique, diverse and individual ways to be for each and every living thing on this planet suddenly loose all imagination when it comes to religion? If each of us could truly accept that other people can have a different but equally valid experience of the divine how much better our world would be. If you could say to your neighbor, "this is what I have experienced, would you like to see? Can you teach me what you have known of God"?

Instead of bashing each other over the head saying stop breathing the wrong way, we could be sharing in the wonderful diversity that God gave us to experience his/hers/their/it's ecstasy.

It is stupid to argue over what can be measured just take out the measuring device and measure. It is also equally stupid to argue over what can not be measured since there is no measuring device; there is no way to know.

God is unknowable let there be peace.

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