My Religion

I do believe that the root of all religions is the sacrifice of your personal ego and submitting instead to God, the one universal mind and this is what it’s all about. What I question is the Jewish, Christian and Muslim religions who put so much confidence in the written word.

The written word, I don’t care how perfect or pure you think it is, it will always be misunderstood and misused, and is always and always has and will continue to be. I believe God tried to make us understand this by giving us a prophet who could not read or write. I certainly don’t want to offend any Muslims, but the Koran was not written by Mohammed, part of it was written while he was alive but most of it was memorized and none of it was ever published until after he died.  The Koran, like all scriptures and major religions were created by people.  We are told that we have to study and memorize to learn the will of God. Mohammed learned the will of God and he could not read or write and what was it that he memorized?  But Mohammed is the last prophet that’s why we have to study and memorize, ask yourself, does that sound right to you?  How does that feel in your heart, does those words feel right?  If it don’t feel right, don’t believe it.

The Koran may not have been passed down and rewritten as many times as the bible scriptures, it may be more accurate, but it is still written word. I believe the correct way to look at all scriptures is that it is to be a mirror of what is in the heart, but is never meant to replace it. If there is ever any conflict between the two, the heart is right and the written word is misunderstood and may require further study.

It is true that the heart can be corrupted by our own ego, to protect us from guilt and shame that may afflict us. But this is what religion is all about. This is why we pray and meditate. It’s not perfect. It is always a process of failures and successes. But some believe that they can circumvent this process, attempting to follow the word by the letter and believe that this makes them righteous when in fact they are only following their ego, undoing what religion is all about.

Why do you think Jesus criticized the scribes and pharisees so? And in attempting to follow the written word by the letter, there will be disagreements and divisions. We need to come to the realization that Mohammed could not read or write, yet he was chosen to be prophet, God obviously is not impressed by our knowledge of scripture. But rather the heart, and that’s where we need to be.