Response to the death of Bin Laden

Let me say first of all, for me per­son­ally, I would need a whole lot more evi­dence that he is dead than what we’ve been given.  I don’t mean to be a total con­spir­acy the­o­rist, how­ever at this point in our his­tory, trust­ing the gov­ern­ment is a bit naive in my hum­ble opin­ion.  Par­tic­u­larly since we’ve offi­cially started cam­paign sea­son.  But this post is not about the valid­ity of the claim, but rather the response to the claim by the peo­ple around me and around the world.

The most inter­est­ing trend I spot­ted from the van­tage point of my own lit­tle Face­book account was this:  those that con­sider them­selves to be ‘Chris­tians’ gen­er­ally had a joy­ous response rev­el­ing in the ‘rid­ding of evil.’  And those that would not con­sider them­selves to be Chris­tians had a ‘love thy enemy’ response, which oddly enough is in align­ment with the teach­ings of Jesus and could be con­sid­ered the ‘good Chris­t­ian’ response.  So…what’s going on here?

Most of the peo­ple I know who con­sider them­selves to be ‘Meta­phys­i­cally’ ori­ented really dig the teach­ings of Jesus…and Buddha…and Krishna…and Mohamed and so many oth­ers, and we real­ize the com­mon­al­ity in all of these teach­ings.  Right?  So, it does make per­fect sense that those of us on a more uni­ver­sal path are much more focused on the teach­ings rather than the per­son who taught them.  It is the teach­ing itself that excites us– not the man or woman behind it.  We do not wor­ship Mother Theresa but aspire to be more like her.  We don’t hang a photo of an Aryan ver­sion of Jesus with blue eyes and blond hair hang­ing from a cross above our beds.  We don’t say 100 hail Mary’s after we’ve made a mis­take, we apol­o­gize and atone for our behav­ior and strive to do better.

The biggest dif­fer­ence between estab­lished reli­gions today and a more uni­ver­sal approach is that the reli­gions are based on a dual­ity mind­set.  Good and evil, right and wrong, heaven and hell, sin­ner and saint.  Those of us that have cho­sen a more uni­ver­sal approach seem to have an under­stand­ing that it is just that: uni-versal, not bi-versal.  It is only in the frag­ment­ing of our­selves that we can hate another.  It doesn’t have any­thing to do with the other per­son, only our own capac­ity to love.  A Course in Mir­a­cles tells us that “What we focus on in another, we strengthen in our­selves.”  Most Chris­tians I know still have no issue with focus­ing on oth­ers’ faults and con­demn­ing them and jus­ti­fy­ing it by their reli­gion.  It does not appear yet that the church as a whole has caught onto the con­cept of what Jesus was teach­ing all those years ago.

I have had great fun look­ing at the pro­jec­tion of the spe­cific words peo­ple have cho­sen, since it does say so much about how they see them­selves.  Those that say, “Rot in Hell, Satin” seem to still be quite steeped in worldly addic­tions and obvi­ously still in a anger/reactionary phase of their life.  Those that say, “Jus­tice has finally been served”  seem to have a lot of active vic­tim­hood still present and haven’t yet taken respon­si­bil­ity for their lives yet.  Those that say, “Good! Finally!” are the types that get mad at wait­ers in restau­rants when they aren’t seated faster or their food is not quite right.  They are still rather unclear about who is respon­si­ble for what in this world.  And those that say, “Thank you Jesus, for rid­ding this world of this evil man” are the ones in church on Sun­day and know scrip­ture well, yet still have some chal­lenge apply­ing those teach­ings to their own lives in prac­ti­cal terms, like ahem…loving their enemies.

Many of us on the Meta­phys­i­cal path were raised in a more struc­tured reli­gion and we left because the hypocrisy became too much.  In times like these of large world­wide events it is a huge plea­sure to me to stand on the side of love rather than hate.  As my Face­book posts became pretty clearly divided, it was a fun thing for me to wit­ness.  I still have many fun­da­men­tal­ist fam­ily mem­bers and then there are the cir­cles I swim in now by choice.  And unan­i­mously, the response from my cur­rent cir­cles was one of love, not hatred.  And the voices from my past were con­fir­ma­tion as to why they are my past, not my present.

What about you all and your expe­ri­ences?  What have you noticed in your circles?

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