I chose to follow the teachings of Jesus because the things he said are common to every religion. They all admonish their followers to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and suffer the children to learn to love their neighbor as they love themselves and so on. The selflessness of these admonitions tends to attract ambitious and charismatic leaders seeking to win them over in order to exploit them. That’s why there are denominations in every major faith. To me, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist and the rest are merely words. The reason there is no such thing as religion is that there is one God of all.
I pray that this message is heard by every leader and every citizen of every nation in the world. I pray that religious rituals and traditions will no longer be used as sacraments to separate us. I pray that the vicious hateful acts of the self-serving leaders of Muslim terror groups, all other despots, and every hate group are seen for what they are ignoramuses drunk on personal power at the expense of innocent human life.
O God, how much longer must we endure white supremacists filled with hate and justifying it in your name and the name of Jesus Christ. How long do we have to endure ministers who preach prosperity to fill their pockets without regard to the true words of Jesus? How long must we endure Muslim leaders who changed 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 no priest is given authority to bring prayers and petitions unto God?
Is it right that a man can kill another while he is praying to God in a mosque? Is this happening in the world today? Has Christian killed Christian? How can two and a half billion people whose believe in the same God differ so much between them?
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. For I ask in God’s Holy name, who have I offended by asking? Whose faith do these words offend that ask us to raise our hearts and our prayers to the same God as one human family? Do you agree?
