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Originally Posted by HORIZONS
Agreed: It is not the religion that has gone to war and murdered millions, it is the state of consciousness behind the religion.
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The problem here is that the "state of consciousness behind the religion" is conveyed by the
doctrines of that religion.
A false doctrine cannot
possibly convey the consciousness Created 'by and in the image of God'; rather, a false doctrine can only exacerbate and intensify the thoughts and behaviors of the 'fallen' consciousness to the point of
genocide.
So, to attack the falseness of a doctrine is to, simultaneously, attack the 'fallen' consciousness from which that doctrine has originated and which consciousness has propagated that doctrine and religion.
How many Jews would have been slaughtered during the Holocaust, for example, if the German Christians had fully understood that they might very well have themselves been Jews in their previous lives and may very well be 'raised from the dead' as Jews in their future lives?
But such a realization was massively prevented because, about 800 years before, the Roman church had slaughtered tens of thousands of Albigensians in southern France specifically for teaching that Jesus taught a Doctrine of 'Rebirth'. Thus, there is a very
direct connection between the extermination of the Albigensians and the Holocaust; something which the media, of course, simply
refuses to publicize.