Monday, June 22, 2009

Watch out... before insisting

It is good and also it is important to have your own relationship with God. However, when you insist on that as something absolute, especially absolute to everyone, then problem starts. I believe that has been the serious cause of so called religious wars. But, watch out. Although it is easy to point fingers to each religion and blame her for causing the problem, this tendency, in fact, lies in each of us. We need to have a bigger heart or courage to accept the possibility that other people have their own unique relationship with God which is not necessarily the same as mine. There is only one God but he created us as such a unique beings and thus he appears to each unique person in its own unique way. Therefore, if someone else is experiencing God different way from how you experience God, you should not deny it, but appreciate it. Otherwise, you will be initiating a religious war yourself. How can you think that you are the only one who knows God? It is arrogant.

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