Humans are capable of doing grand things. We build monumental feats of engineering. We crystallize our ideas and imaginations into books. We travel at breath-taking speeds. We have even leave our own planet to explore the heavens above. However,we still view the world according to our own immediateenvironment. We see the world usually as our home, family, and friends...simply put, whatever is comforting and familiar to us. Of course, there are the explorers, the people who expand beyond the immediate; yet, still, for many of ushumansgoing outside this, we feel Fear, hate, intolerance, all those negative things. We are afraid of what we don’t understand and what is different. Religion helps many to make sense of all we don’t understand. Yet we even take religion and mold it into something familiar, comforting, routine.
Godknows what we humans are like.
We have created a million ways to seek God and the ultimate truths. A million sacred texts to find the answers and the way. Once you take out all the man-made stuff—Bible interpretations, traditions, requirements, customs, doctrine, and all that generates fear and misgiving or that forces you to conform to a man-made idea of what religion should do or be --you are left with something simple. Something so simple we humans can’t seem to collectively grasp it.
That simple thing is for us to get along and love one another. It is not to fear what is strange and new. It is wanting us all to work together. It is treating others the way we wish to be treated. It is wanting us to love one another. You can see for the entirety of human history, we have fought this simple idea of true peace. Wars, terrorism, greed, slavery, genocide, hatred, mutilation, intolerance, the pains of humanityhavebeen "business as usual" for the human race since it has existed. We even quote Bible verses to say therewill always be war and rumors of wars. We kill other religions and ideas to push our own agendas. We blindly follow leaders who tell us to hate. We applaud greed as necessary. We say we speak for God when we want violence to comfort our fear.
Maybe what God only wants is for us all—every person, every race, every nation, everyone—to simply get along and love each other...because He knewthatthat would ultimatelybe the most difficult thing we would ever have to do.
