Religions, worshipping and begging

by CR (026)

Great spirits, driven by ideals of reform, have descended to Earth with enormous sacrifice to themselves, trying to elevate the human mind engrossed by hedonistic feelings and excited by sheer material pleasure.

Such spirits like Jesus, Buddha, Confucius and Mohammed, however, besides not being understood, ended up deified by the illiterate masses.

Once the idea of divinization took hold, the respective religions were created, each preaching a different form of speculative worship, and the followers of each flocked together.

In a world like this (Earth) where souls of various classes mix, and where most people live more for the sake of matter than for the sake of spiritual values, it was not difficult to gather together countless legions of worshippers under the flag of each religion.

In many countries, Jesus is worshipped. Nevertheless, there is no difference at all between his worshippers and those who turn to Buddha, Confucius or Mohammed.

Behind a facade, they all hide a servile, flattering attitude with which they hope to receive larger rewards in the present or future, or forgiveness for their sins.

If flattery and subservience are disapproved by enlightened incarnated spirits, it is easy to realize what effect these would have on highly advanced desincarnated spirits (in the Superior Astral) if such feelings could reach them.

The faithful may worship a piece of wood carved with human features because their free will gives them the right to satisfy their urge to worship, but worshippers usually can't dissociate the ideas of worshipping and begging. Worshipping and begging are two identical crutches for a mental misconception.

It should also be noted that this God, to whom the requests are made, seems so ill-advised and lives so aloof, apart, and indifferent to human problems, that his attention to such problems is awakened only by the appeals he hears.

He will not be moved to pity unless people ask him to be pitiful. He will not be merciful unless people beg him to be merciful. If people want peace they have to ask him for peace. He will not be fair unless people ask him for justice.

References

[1] Christian Rationalism, 1st Edition, Rio de Janeiro 1984

[2] Compilation, paraphrasing, translation from original texts in Portuguese