THE BRIDGE: The Reason For The Season
By
Darryl James
Christmastime is here… I thought it appropriate to examine the
season and the reason for the season.
First, let's take a look at who believes in God.
According to a survey conducted by Harris Interactive, ten per cent
of Protestants, twenty-one per cent of Roman Catholics and fifty-two
per cent of Jews do not believe in God. Surprised? Well, there's more
that may also shock you.
Eighty-four per cent of women believe in God, while only seventy-three
per cent of men do.
In terms of education and faith, eighty-two per cent of those with
no college education believe in God, while only seventy-three per
cent of those who went to college have faith.
Eighty-seven per cent of Republicans believe, while seventy-eight
per cent of Democrats and seventy-five per cent of Independents have
faith.
When it comes to race, guess who has the greatest faith? African Americans
lead the faithful at ninety-one per cent, while eighty-one per cent
of Hispanics and only seventy-eight per cent of whites have faith.
That brings us back to the holiday season. Many people do not believe
in God and yet they celebrate Christmas. Still, others believe in
God, but do not believe in Jesus Christ and yet, they too, celebrate
Christmas.
The season has come to symbolize much more than the Christian holiday
it originally was. It is now a season-a season of love and giving,
a season of understanding and a season of peace and kindness.
Such a powerful season should have a powerful impact on people, particularly
men and women who claim to love and believe in Jesus Christ, who,
incidentally, was not a Christian, but a Hebrew.
My point? Well, it's rather simple. As a man of God, I am at once
disgusted and saddened by the lunatics and overbearing heretics who
claim to represent God and who claim to know Jesus (Yahshua, the Black
revolutionary). As a scholar, I already know that they have more than
likely never read the bible for themselves or studied history and
therefore, have no real clue as to the reality of Jesus of Nazareth.
If you really read the bible, then you will know that Jesus was not
trying to convince people to worship within any religion, and he certainly
wasn't trying to push people to worship him. If you claim to aspire
to be like Jesus, you should realize that you only do that when you
are tolerant of other belief systems.
Knowledge of the bible and of history will reveal that what Jesus
was trying to deliver to other humans, more than anything else, was
an understanding of conscious evolution, which means that he had mastered
the power of critical thinking. What would Jesus do? Well, he wouldn't
be hating people because they hold divergent faiths. Believe that.
In organizations such as the Green Beret, the slogan goes, "Many
are called but few are chosen." Such is also the case with universal
conscious evolution.
Jesus states in Matthew 7:14: "Strait is the gate and narrow
is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it."
Jesus is saying that "narrow is the way," and "few
there be that find it," which means that the true path will not
be followed by the majority. In other words, whatever is popular,
is more than likely NOT the correct path. Also, by saying "few
there be that find it," Jesus is illustrating that the path is
not a mass pursuit, but that each individual should determine for
self the way which "leadeth unto life."
As A HEBREW HIMSELF, Jesus advocated for intrinsic spiritual enlightenment
and conscious evolution, not blind and exclusionary participation
in any one religion. Also, like many other prophets and revolutionaries,
Jesus was not very popular during his time, and neither were his doctrines.
Remember, Jesus was not a Christian, and promoted only love for humanity
and for his father, God, not for any religion. Christianity was manufactured
following his murder at the hands of crazed religious zealots, who
curiously, were promoting THEIR religious beliefs when they killed
him.
Please allow me to quote three immortal thinkers:
According to Mark Twain, "If Christ were here there is one thing
he would not be...a Christian."
"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear
to them except in the form of bread," said Mahatma Ghandi.
And, finally, from the new school of conscious evolution and critical
thinking, Darryl James preaches that "There are perhaps more
atheists created from the unwitting repulsion generated by religious
zealots than the careful work of the devil himself."
The conscious evolution promoted by Jesus, Mohammed and other historical
visionaries allows humans to transcend the clannishness of religions
in order to focus on the universal love found in the true Kingdom
of God. There is no evolution in promoting one religion over another.
If all paths lead to God, then your path is as valid as my own, unless
of course, you have spoken directly to God--in which case, you are
either delusional, a prophet, or full of crap.
Religion, faith and spirituality are individual pursuits that are
very elusive in their purity. There is no evolution in pushing the
same vapid thoughts to the masses without critical thinking and a
historical perspective.
Take that into consideration the next time you send out your insipid
Jesus emails or otherwise deliver such messages unwarranted without
a care in the world for your brethren who did not ask for them. How
mean spirited and witless to continue to flood the masses with information
that you yourself more than likely don't really understand.
This Christmas season, spread love, spread holiday cheer and spread
the spirit of giving and sharing, which does not mean jamming your
religion down the throats of the masses.
Quite frankly, in doing so, you are moving away from the conscious
evolution pursued by Jesus of Nazareth, and are therefore, DANCING
WITH THE DEVIL. Nevertheless, our God has given you the freedom to
do so, just as Hitler, the slave masters, and the warmongering leaders
of this nation were allowed to make their own choices on God's green
earth.
Just don't lie and claim to do it in the name of Jesus.
