It is disconcerting to hear people disrespect Jesus but love Buddha, knock Allah but adore Jesus, make light of Buddha but go gaga over Jehovah, etc., etc., etc. It is disconcerting because the basic message each and all preached was the same message...love. It is our own interpretation of the message that is the source of our resistance...that is our bane.
Even further and more disconcerting is how few people will take responsibility for their own negative opinions. Jesus is hateable because the nuns were so mean in their teaching of him; Allah is bad because he's clearly a foreigner; Buddha is the new "in" thing, just a fad; Jehovah is woo-woo...and the denying judgments go on.
What we finally realize is that God chooses us and there is no one God has not chosen.
For some of us, that realization sets our feet moving in the right direction...i.e., toward God and the spiritual. Then we let our minds be opened as to which of the many teachers of God's word we hear...in other words, who we will follow.
Note: It is helpful (as in, essential) to know the difference between being a follower and being a fanatic. Fanatics make themselves the god of their own understanding.
Finally, this we must remember: Never disrespect another's spiritual teacher...mainly because what we disrespect we will bow to before ever we can move on up, deeper. That's karma in a silk suit.
Thank you.
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