And don't even think of the word Jesus. People expire before your very eyes with that word. The name Jesus Christ is a flamethrower to a good many.
Yet, in my world today, Buddha is not only acceptable...and I'm talking words only here...Buddha gives one bragging rights. [Human nature being such as it is, pray for Buddha...he's in for a fall.]
People in general dodge the word Allah altogether. Jehovah, too. And nobody that I know uses the word Yahweh...I've only ever seen that written in spiritual tracts and spoken in the class I took ages ago on the Old Testament.
According to me, there's nothing wrong with relating to any one of them...I'm a believer that whatever speaks to one personally, use. Use being the key. It is the almost universal refusal to let others use whatever/whomever speaks to them that is bothersome.
There are those who flinch on hearing Jesus mentioned...with the universal alibi of blame, "the way I was raised." Here's a 30-, 40-, 50-years-old and older person still blaming the way she was raised, the religion he was taught for not taking responsibility for her own inner beliefs, his very core.
Religion seems to me to be the last holdout of the justified-hate crowd. If we're ever going to face our own ego down, and by that I mean, let God out from within, we need to consider giving our ears freedom. Freedom to hear others speak their truth...neither rejecting it nor buying it whole cloth.
Just because we listen, doesn't mean we must respond, vocally or mentally. We can give a silent shrug or hug and keep on walking. We can do that...but only by disciplining our own mind. Our own attack mind.
We can pray for peace until our face falls off, but peace will not be ours until we give peace away. We have it within us now...we use it by listening with the ears of God, Buddha, Jesus, Jehovah, Allah, whoever speaks to us.
Listen to love.
Thank you.
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