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The Bible and Qu’ran offer perfectly beautiful messages that instruct followers to rise above human selfishness and personify Selfless Love, treating others as they would want to be treated. The greatest sickness within Christianity, Islam and Judaism is literalism. Scripture reveals that the literal word or literal interpretation of scripture also known as the letter of the law is dead and kills the spirit or spiritual message also known as the spirit of the law (Romans 7:6; Second Corinthians 3:6; Qu’ran 3:50, 61:06). The reason why these religions teach that only their religion is truer to God and holier over the others is because of their exclusive literal interpretations of scripture. It is precisely this self-exaltation or what I like to call “holier-than-thou-ism” that is used to justify their blaming, hating, persecuting, brutalizing and even killing people not of their religion.
What is central belief of extremist religion? It is the self-exalted, separatist belief that only conforming members of the religion are “holy” or “saved” or “of God” or “doing God’s will” and everyone else on Earth is not and shall suffer for eternity. Religious extremists dehumanize those not in their exclusive group by labeling them with such terms as “unsaved,” “infidels,” “secularists” and “heretics.”
What is the difference between racism and extremist or holier-than-thou religion? Substantively, nothing. The heart of racism is self-exaltation, where only people of a certain race are better or superior to all other races. In America, racists are socially ostracized, because racism is unacceptable. Why is it unacceptable to teach that Whites are superior to Blacks yet it is completely acceptable to teach that Christians are superior to non-Christians, which is what Glenn Beck and a whole host of Christian preachers propagate? Why is it acceptable to teach that followers of “traditional religion” are superior to “secularists,” which is what Bill O’Reilly teaches? Why is it acceptable to teach that only true Jews are the Chosen Ones of God and everyone else shall not be chosen, which is what separatist Jews teach? Why is it acceptable to teach that only conforming Muslims shall enjoy Paradise and everyone else shall suffer the wrath of God, which is what holier-than-thou Muslims teach?
Every religious group in America that teaches that only its group is “holy” and superior and that everyone else is “unholy” and a lesser human being should be defined “extremist” and socially ostracized and rejected, just like racists. The United States government needs to set an example for the world and put its foot down and identify these religious groups and, furthermore, take away their tax-exempt status.
Let us not forget that the vast majority of extremist or holier-than-thou Christians, Muslims and Jews are nonviolent. Make no mistake—it is precisely from this cesspool of self-exalted religion that violent extremists rise up.
Scripture reveals that God is an invisible Spirit that is Love and All-Good (John 4:24; Colossians 1:15; First John 4:16; Mark 10:18), and that God is the Source or Selfless Giver of the Spirit (Revelation 22:1), and that the governance of God’s righteous justice is as you sow, so shall you reap (Galatians 6:7-8). In other words, God is the Spirit of Selfless Love that lives and grows within all that live and grow in the Spirit, regardless of one’s worldly religion or lack of (Matthew 7:21, 12:31-33; Luke 10:30-37; John 5:29; Romans 2:25-26).
There is no excuse for Christians, Jews or Muslims to self-exalt, because their scripture repeatedly instructs them to exalt only God (Exodus 15:2; Psalms 34:3) and reveals that self-exalters are rebellious and wicked (Psalms 66:7; Psalms 140:8). The Qu’ran repeatedly instructs Muslims to honor Jesus’ Gospel (Qu’ran 3:44-59; 5:46; 42:12-13; 57:27; 61:6) and Jesus comes right out and tells us that all that self-exalt shall be abased (Matthew 23:12). Furthermore, Jesus makes it clear that the entirety of scripture boils down to loving the Spirit of Selfless Love and applying it (Matthew 22:36-40).
Self-exalted Christians, Muslims and Jews cannot shut up about their love for God, but they are greatest deniers of God in the most fundamental way, because they usurp the Judgment Throne of God, that is, they kick God off His Judgment Throne and sit their holier-than-thou butts down and proceed to judge this one to Heaven and that one to Hell. Do not be deceived, these people may speak of God till their tongues fall out of their heads, but they could not be further from God by their greater love for separatist, fearful, self-exalted religion.
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