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   Comparing Fundamental Christianity with Universal Spirituality

   Photo Credits

   What Is a Context?

   Religion and Reality - How Do They Relate  

   "Why is He Called "Resident" Bush?

   The Iceberg Principle    

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Comparing  Fundamental Christianity

             with Universal Spirituality

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Universal Spirituality  is a broad general label for millions of people who believe in a higher power but do not participate in any specific religion.   The Universal Spiritual Perspective is in many ways, similar to some of the beliefs of the Eastern religions such as Buddhism and Hinduism, but many of the beliefs and almost all of the religious trapping are left out.  Here's the universal spiritual perspective in summary:

"Physical matter is only a very small part of reality.   Life does not begin at conception, or at birth, or anywhere else,  and life does not end at death.   Humans are not physical bodies.   Humans are eternal, non-physical, divine beings who always were and always will be.   Each and every human is an eternal being temporarily inhabiting a physical body.    While living in physical bodies, humans are intimately connected to nature -- to their Earthly environment.   From the overall, spiritual perspective, the death of the physical body is considered to have about the same significance as taking off a suit of clothes and leaving them behind.   

Everything is one.   Everything is   a part of   and intimately related to   everything else.    Everything is energy.   There was no beginning.   There will be no end.   Time is an illusion.   Eternity is now.   

God is not a super-human being living above the clouds.   God is consciousness -- a consciousness so vast and so complex that it transcends human knowledge and human understanding.   Humans are also consciousness.   God consciousness and human consciousness are intimately inter-related.  

An 'Intelligent Creator' created everything we know about and everything we still don't know about.   Humans are part of and co-creators with the timeless, eternal God.   Within the context of life on Earth, we are the creators of our personal experiences."

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 Fundamental Christianity

Here's a brief summary of the fundamentalist Christian perspective:

Humans are their physical bodies.  Humans are separate from nature and separate from God.   God is also separate from nature.   The sole purpose for all of creation is to get humans into Christian heaven.   The only thing that exists beyond physical reality is Christian heaven and Satan's hell.   The Christian God magically created the universe and everything in it in six Earth days.    God magically creates a brand new human being every time a human egg and sperm unite.  Humans are victims of and are at the effect of their environment.   Humans are inherently evil.  The only way to change things  is by pleading to God.   Unless God saves us, we are destined for eternal damnation.

For an in-depth discussion of Universal Spirituality,  readers are directed to:
http://www.Does-God-Exist.net/universal-spirituality.html#77 

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The Iceberg Principle

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An iceberg is only twenty percent above water and the underwater part is invisible to the casual observer.    When you find a so-called public servant's been taping the public treasury, running scams, playing dirty tricks or pulling off other shenanigans,  you can bet your butt that what you find out about is only a small fraction of what he's been doing.

What is a Context?

Webster’s Dictionary defines a context as,  "The whole situation, the background or the environment relevant to a particular event, personality, creation, etc."   A context is the environment in which something is or occurs.   Contexts are vitally important because they control/influence/affect everything within them.   

For Example:   Your auto headlights are not important in the context of  driving your car on on a sunny afternoon, but in the context of driving on a busy highway at night, those same headlights are critically important.  

For a  detailed discussion of contexts and to learn why shifting the context in which corporations do business  is critically important  for humans to be successful at Reversing Global Warming, please see the TLC-Life-Center's website about contexts at:   http://www.TextAndContext.info ' 

Religion and Reality

What is God?   Before you can offer any meaningful answers to questions about God or make and useful statements or have a reasonably meaningful discussion about religion, you need to define what you mean when you say, "God."    
Reference:    http://www.Does-God-Exist.net ' 

Are You Inside or Outside of God?  The second major factor in discussing religion is to answer the question,  "Are you inside or outside of God?   In all of human history, there never has been and probably never will be another distinction as important as:  "Are you inside or outside of God?"  This belief, no matter which perspective one believes, is the underlying context which dominates and controls vast amounts of human behavior.   
Reference:       http://www.Truth-Seeker-Truth.info ' 

Beliefs not Facts:   The third major factor to consider in discussing religion is that the only thing we can say with certainty about God, is that whatever it is, it has a profound affect upon us.     Beyond that, what can we say about God with provable certainty?   When someone speaks about God, they are referring to that unknown and unknowable source of all that transcends understanding.   Thus, they tell us absolutely nothing about what God actually is or isn't.   They are, instead, expressing what they believe about God.    Even atheists who believe that there is no such thing as a source or a creator are only expressing an opinion / belief.

What If . . .    What if everybody's truth is correct, but only within it's own context.   What if all truths are only part truths?    What if  some of the additional and previously-missing pieces of information were to be added to each truth?   How would that change the meaning of present-day religious beliefs?  

What if whatever it is that we call "God" is the ultimate mystery of life?  What if we really don't know what God is, or how He/She/It  functions.   What if life doesn't begin and conception, at birth or at any other place?   What if life simply changes form and moves into a different dimension of reality?   What if there are dimensions where time and space, as we know them, don't exist?   What if the universe is filled with mysteries about which we are profoundly ignorant?   What if the origin of life and the consciousness behind that origin are unknown and unknowable?    

What if there actually is  a difference between reality and what we believe about reality?   What if we really don't know all those things we claim to know?   

And regardless of what you or I or anybody else believes about whatever it is we call "God," The Source of the Universe is whatever it is, it functions however it functions, and it remains the worlds greatest unsolved mystery.   So the next time you hear someone telling that they know something about God, particularly if they claim to know something  that you don't, simple smile, excuse your self, and leave as quickly as possible.   

Reference:       Spiritual Awareness. ' 

Why Political Manipulators Promote  Censorship:  

Because sexual censorship is really political censorship.    It's easy to promote political censorship and hide it behind sexual censorship because political freedom and sexual freedom go hand in hand.^°    Literature that exposes the establishment's shortfalls often also contains words or pictures relating to sex.   For the purpose of maintaining control, the political leaders, disguised as protectors of public morals, will attack a publication saying its sexual content is obscene when in reality, they are attempting to silence those who expose or criticize their shady, political, financial, and/or personal activities.  

   Bush and Ashcroft wage war on pornography
Obscenity: For the first time in 10 years, the U.S. government is spending millions of our tax dollars filing charges across the country.  

Abraham Lincoln Quote on Prohibition

"Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. . .   A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principle upon which our government was founded."

You might also note that making something illegal does not now, nor has it ever, stopped the prohibited activity or the sale of the prohibited items.   What it does do is raise the prices and produce huge profits for the sellers.   You've probably herd the term for illegal selling --  "black market."   Prices may be ten to thirty times what the same item would cost without the prohibition.

These huge economic incentives bring some people into activities that they never would otherwise engage in.   How many thousands of times has prohibition made criminals out of the financially desperate individuals?   

"Resident" Bush

Question:   

Why do you disrespect President Bush by referring to him as "Resident" Bush?

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Because, in my opinion, he is not now and never was a duly elected President.   1)  In 2000, he lost the popular vote.  2)   In the 2000 election, there was so much manipulation of the voting system in Florida that the legitimacy of his winning Florida electoral vote is in serious question.   3)  He was put in office by a conservative Supreme Court and not by the People.   4) A fair way to decide the Florida vote would have been to re-do the Florida election.   That did not happen.   If it had happened, Mr. Bush would not be in the White House today.    5)  The accuracy of the voting counting process  in the 2004 election is seriously questionable.   So the bottom line is that he is, in my opinion, only  a "resident" in the White House --   i. e. "Resident" Bush.

See the page titled:   Bush -- Five Thousand Dollar Reward. '   Pay particular attention to the section titled:   Who Counts the Votes.'  

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In the present, government-created, financial  scam, there's a factor that was not present  (or at least was not recognized) in the depression of the 1930's.    That factor is the destruction of the environment --  Global Warming / Global Climate change.     

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There's another major factor in deficit financing ---   That factor is the interest charged on the borrowed money.   Any time interest is charged on a loan, the borrower is spending his/her/their future.  If interest is charged on the loan, the borrower becomes an indentured servant to the lender.    When the government borrows money (deficit finances anything)  you become the borrower.   Like it or not, it's you and your children who are paying the price of the loan.  It's you and your children who will have to pay back the loan and pay interest on that loan until it is paid back.   

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