For there is one God who has made us, each and every one…

by Mel Reed on March 2, 2010

My religion is ChrisMusHinBudd. The reason you have not heard of it is because I just invented the name. I am hoping it will catch on and become as well known as the other names coined by those before me. In each case, the members of these other religions worship a singularly powerful entity they refer to as God, Allah or other name. And that is precisely why there is no such thing as religion: there is the one true God of all.

I chose to follow the teachings of Jesus because the things he said are common to every religion. This is the reason I contend that there is no such thing as religion. Faith…yes, religion…no! The theological dogma or tenets that religions hold to be true incorporate the most basic things Jesus said every one of us ought to be doing. Among these are feed the hungry, clothe the naked, suffer the children to learn to love their neighbor as they love themselves and so on. The power and passion of this kind of expression of love for one’s fellow human beings is ripe for charismatic and ambitious leaders to exploit. That’s why there are denominations in every major faith.

I pray that this message can open the eyes of the leaders of the world as well as the rank and file citizenry of every nation on the face of the earth. I pray that rituals and traditions will no longer be used as religious doctrine to separate us from one another. I pray that the vicious hateful acts of men led by self-serving despots such as the leaders of the Muslim terror groups and Christian hate groups are seen for what they are; ignorant men who worship personal power at the expense of innocent human life.

But regarding Christianity, O God, how long do we have to endure ministers who preach prosperity for their pockets at the expense of the true words spoken by Jesus? How long must we endure those who have come to power among the Muslims by rewriting the words written down by Mohammad? How long must we endure the belief that there is something holy in immersing someone in water to wash away their sins, or marching around a tower? How long before people come to realize that there is no priest given authority to bring the prayers and petitions of the people to God? How can a man kill another while he is praying to God because he is a ‘this’ and the man praying is a ‘that’? Is this not what is happening in the world today? Has a Catholic killed a Protestant? Has a Sunni killed a Shia or a Kurd? Oh God, who among us humans will hear me?

I pray that everyone who reads this message will join me in 2010 to unite as we have never united before. I pray that we may learn to turn our faces to the sky and ask our common God to grant us the strength to become one people in one world in one accord before Him. I ask in God’s Holy name, who have I offended by asking? What faith do these words offend that ask us to join our hearts and our prayers to the same God as one human family?

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