Re: Ex-Christian
"Don't throw out the Christ baby with the bathwater" is what I say.
Sure religions are used to control people, however there is an option beyond either accepting the religious beliefs about Jesus being born of virgin, being the only son of god, and a blood sacrifice for an angry god in the sky, there is an alternative indeed, I would call it Truth.
Who put Jesus to death in the story? The scribes and the Pharisees that's who. The religious elite of the day. They preached that God was outside of you, that the messiah would come and reward them and vanquish all those who did not go to the right church and practice in the ways they said you should practice. The exact same way fundamentalist preach today.
Yet Jesus message was simple, when you learn to connect with the messiah within you, the Father within, you can do the works that I can do only greater works that these you can do. He taught us to pray to "OUR" Father, meaning, we share the same Father, the consciousness of Being within us.
I strongly suggest that Jesus mission is about to be fulfilled, and it will be fulfilled because a critical mass, a Christ Mass of people will choose to follow in Jesus footsteps and Gautama Buddha footsteps, and BE reborn into the reality of who they are in Oneness with their own "Father / I AM" within ~~~
I guess the proof is in the pudding ~ I suggest connecting to our heart center and remaining open to the possibilities because there is always MORE.
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