Which Supreme Being are we talking about?

By
Ron & Anna Winship
– January 18, 2015Posted in: faith, family values, Fresh Juice

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According to most sources there are 19 Major Religions and 270 Major Sects throughout the world….as we know it.  When you are start counting soon that number rises to about 4200.  Each religion has its own basic tenets, rules and tradition of prayer.  If you were born in India, there is probably a pretty good chance that you are Hindu, even though the famous Death Cult following the Spirt and Idol of Kali have been around for quite some time.  If you were born in China, there is a pretty good chance you are a Buddist or perhaps a follower of Confucius.  If you were born a German there is a better than 50% chance that you are a Catholic or Lutheran.  If you were born in France or Spain, you are probably Catholic or even Muslim.  If you were born in Great Britain, you are probably a Presbyterian, but you could be any number of various Protestant sects or Catholics.  From Ireland, you are probably Catholic, unless of course you were born in Northern Ireland where they have both Catholics and Presbyterian followers.

If you were born in the Middle East, there is every chance that you are probably a Sunni or Shia Muslim.  This is called:  The Luck of the Draw, but as we live and grow older, we are free to choose any religious belief we want.  Many, change their choice through their choice of mate, their family connections, their neighbors or their desire to discover through self education,  a belief more to their liking in general.

 

The point is simply this – The Tower of Babel from the Old Testament explains how God created a variety of languages to separate all the sinful folks that inhabited the earth.  It also talked about a Flood that was supposed to purge the evil from earth and start us all with a clean slate.  Along the way, various egregious affronts to belief in The One called God seem created or intended to test our devotion.  Sacrilegious, Blasphemy and Desecration had long proceeded these actions from the earliest days of the Pharaohs.  Various Prophets came upon the scene to offer “The new connected Truth and True Religion!”  Messages came from God by way of mental, physical, emotional or spirtual means.  These messages explained that the messenger was to go amongst the populace and offer up the true interpretation of sacred behavior.   The followers came and went and moved from one Sect or Religion to another with impunity.
Spirtuality, is the desire to connect with the Supreme One or Supreme Being who created our world, our cosmos and our consciousness.  Each person must find their own way through study, tradition, devotion and most importantly from the willingness to sacrifice temporal satisfactions.  The most dedicated leaders or followers need to create wonderful examples to others in finding their way to the greater consciousness of goodness.  The Druids believed in the goodness or evil of the land.  They charted the stars at Stonehenge.  They met every Spring  and Autumn.  Not many Druids are still around.
Religion is sometimes used interchangeably with “faith” or “belief system”, but religion differs from private belief in that it has a public aspect!  Certainly, any of us can or could practice our beliefs within our own families or even alone.  However, when we take our belief systems public for all to see, this requires a laity or group of adherents to support that belief.  Jesus, need Simon called Peter, the Romans and the Jewish minority to get started.  The Pharaohs required grand edits that forced folks to belong – perhaps the first of the National Church Systems – with the Pharaoh as God.  The reality soon became apparent, that if someone believes in anything – it will soon have to be Sacrilegous to someone else – somewhere.  Many times the breeches were among members of the same Sect, as it was with Martin Luther and the Catholic Pope…..at the time.  But what is truly Sacrilege?  It can be anything, depending on which sect you are talking to.  Many Jews feel that the movie by Monty Python:  “Life of Brian” was sacrilegous.  During the 50’s the Catholic Church had a list of books and movies which were considered Sacrilegous.
The realities are that if you mention anything regarding religion, you could be upsetting somewhere, someplace and possibly for no reason other that just mentioning “their religion”.  Jim Jones was able to kill most of his “Peoples Temple” adherents in Jonestown, British Guyana, just because he had a US Congressman looking into his operation.  Warren Jeff, created a cult sect portion of the Mormon Church and is facing many years in jail.  L. Ron Hubbard has arguably created one of the most popular off-shoot independent religion/non-religion with the Church of Scientology.  Let us be clear, demeaning someone’s religous beliefs is neither kind or cool.  Everyone has the right to believe as they wish, even if that means they believe in their own house cat or garden plant.  This is an individual choice of mankind and the world to choose for themselves.  Some people have been buried in their own automobiles and we have no problem with any of it.
They say that the Truth will set us free.  Having said that, perhaps the meaning of Tolerance of others viewpoints should start to be the firstword we think about when talking about others Religions, baring that is any illegal conduct, such as violence and killing and harm in general to society.  They can march, they can shout and scream Infidel or Spliter – but they can’t burn down the Library in Constantinoble.  They can’t create another “Crusade” to cleanse the world of Islam or create a grand “Jihad” to cleanse the world of Christianity or the other 4200 Religions.  Live and Let Live…….not Live and Let Die!  Goodness resides in all of us, but in order to bring out that goodness, kindness and worry for the benefit of our fellow man – we need Faith that the Social Contract on this planet will be restored and we will find solutions to our many problems with the help of both Religion and Independent Logical thought.  The most important question now becomes finding the defintion of Social Justice.  With it we live – without it we may perish!  The struggle to find the viable meaning of Social Justice cannot take place without the assistance of all Religions and all Secular Logical thought.  It can not take place in a vacuum of thought either.  Those that demean their own religions trhough violent behavior and lack of Social Consciousness and Responsibility are not worthy of responding to meanspirited printed or spoken behavior of any kind.   They have forfeited and lost their right to protest at that point.
So, which Supreme Being are we talking about?  The kind one or the one that will by doing nothing,  destroy our earth?

About Ron & Anna Winship

Independent News Producers/Writers and Directors for Parker-Longbow Productions. Independent Programming which includes a broad variety of Political, Entertainment and Professional Personalities. Cutting Edge - a talk show...is the flagship of over 30 URL websites developed or under development. The Winships have been blogging for the Orange Juice since back when nickels had buffalos on them, and men wore onions attached to their belts, because it was the fashion back then.