I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet.
From Neale Donald Walsch
The Roman Catholics teach that unless you're a Roman Catholic you do not go to heaven.
One either has to believe in a God who's terribly prejudiced, or disbelieve the teachings of such exclusionary theologies. Religions have taught us that 'we are better than they.'
And because we are, somehow, better than they, we get to go to heaven and they don't. Christians will tell you outright that they believe that.
They may not use the word better. But they certainly believe that they'll go to heaven and Jews will not.
It graduates to 'our state is better than your state', and 'our nation is better than your nation.' And it circles all the way around to where it started: 'Our God is better than your God.'
Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.
The new spirituality will bring about what I'm calling the 'end of better.' And that is in fact what is called for in the next of the series of books that I've been writing.
I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.
The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from 'We're right and you're wrong.'
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