SEPARATISM, no matter how you got to the Choice, is about Fear. If you’re seeking Peace or your goal is Love, Separatism is a mistake. No matter what Scripture, Philosophy or Teaching you use to Justify it, it’s based on Judgement, anger and doubt. It’s based on fear and it offers no self esteem – to anyone. No real Power. SEPARATISTS have no compassion and tons of internal self-hatred. Self loathing steeped in fear that someone will see who they really are. And, if it matters to You or Me: It’s Anti-Christ too. Without Love there’s Nothing and Separation doesn’t offer Love.
My life has been spent being expelled from certain religious groups of Separatists and people and places that don’t like the way I think. From my perspective, these are people uncertain of their own Faith. Not really sure who they are. I’ve never even held a picket sign, screamed in rage at them or told them they were evil for the way they believed and how they’ve judged me, I’ve just observed and watched how they’ve ‘cast out’ so many from among them to justify their…something. I guess maybe their own sense of Righteousness? Did someone tell them to be this way? Are they still following someone else’s idea of what it means to be Holy? Is that why we tell people they need to believe something like us and why we don’t Celebrate the differences? And don’t misconstrue my observation, it’s on both sides of every fence. The Left AND the Right.
Countries, wars, political parties and even churches – certainly Religion as a whole… are these for bringing people together or have they been created for the purpose of Separation?? Maybe safety and a sense of security? I find it all so fascinating. And Liberating. So sweet to know that no matter how we or they act, it changes so little. To Choose e to love those that Judge, to be able to INVITE those that hate us into our homes and our circles, what a gift if we’ve come to that place. To not care what they believe but to Love. Only Love. To drop the liturgical steel walls and bible-quoting barriers that keep us safe from the Questions and Self-Inquiry of WHY DO WE BELIEVE WHAT WE BELIEVE??? Do we really know what we know? And how do we Love unconditionally? By separating from those that believe differently or those that ‘repulse’ us because of their liberal stance or conservative perspective? Aren’t all of those, the ‘others’ seeking the same thing we are? To know God and seek Presence and love and Spirit? So many facades. On all of us. And why do we refuse to interact with those that have hearts and deep compassion for not only themselves, but for all living beings. We label them as Buddhists, tree-huggers, liberals or ‘New agers’. Because they accept too much. They love too much.
For me, it’s a fascinating Journey to Question these things about judgment and Separation. I’m so curious about those that refuse to be a part of the whole. Those that choose to ‘come out from among them’ that are different from themselves.
Ahhhhh, so many empty places to pour some sweet Love into if you ask me.
There. That should piss a lot of people off this morning.
Peace. I say QUESTION EVERYTHING. PP
