The Christian Guilt Complex
The Age of Aquarius *, among many other things is the age of honesty and truth. The deeper we move into this age, if Christianity fails to respond to the warning signs of increasingly shrinking numbers of followers, the opportunities for evolving into a church that is suitable for the new age will have to be removed by God and the Angels. By now, ever more of us are asking whether anyone has the right to deprive us and our world of the mysticism of its spiritual background, which by right should be the foundation of every belief system.
But even so, as undoubtedly it was once decreed by God and the Angels that for wise higher reasons it should be hidden from humankind’s view and knowledge until the time was right for revealing it, who would we be to argue? In any case, why should changing expressions like ‘our Lord and Master Jesus’ to ‘our Lord and Lady, the Universal Christ’ so difficult? If Christianity were courageous enough to make the long overdue adjustments, that’s how this once mighty religion could transform itself and evolve, the same as everything else in the whole of Creation. What’s wrong with accepting that, the same as every human being, the development of this organisation, again the same as everything else, had to start with being foolish enough to present a deception and untruth because it was too young and inexperienced to know any better?
Having grown up and matured into spiritual adulthood and a wise one, why shouldn’t Christianity be happy to at last acknowledge that God’s wisdom and truth have always been hiding behind the surface words of its scriptures? Isn’t it sufficiently wonderful in itself that there really is a great deal of truth in the Bible teachings with the help of which, when it reveals itself to our astonished eyes, they make so much sense – where there was none before – that nobody will feel the need to argue about them?
If Christianity makes the required alterations, it could happen that it fulfils the purpose for which it was called into being, namely bringing our world the message that our God is love. For as long as every word of the sacred texts was meant to be understood literally, that did not make any sense whatever. Every one of us is in this world for learning how to love God’s way, i.e. totally and unconditionally, without preference and reservations against anyone.
As ever more people in our world become aware of this, Christianity could act as an intermediary who, if they were appointed by God and the Angels, could play a major role in bringing true and lasting peace to our world. What a refreshing change that would make from being the cause of endless warmongering, trouble and strife and providing humankind with ever more ‘Heaven-sent’ excuses for indulging the drives and urges of its lower nature that thirsts for dominion and exploitation, vengeance and destruction.
Peace is sure to come to our world when even the last and slowest one of us has found out about God’s true nature and their own, and the duties and responsibilities this brings with it. Everybody needs to know that spiritually no-one ever gets away with anything; that we are accountable for each one of our thoughts, words and actions; and that due to the Universal laws, especially the law of Karma, everything we send into our world in due course returns to us in some reinforced format. If this does not happen in this lifetime, it’s sure to do so in future ones.
Christianity would in that case be empowered to release humankind from the almighty collective guilt complex which, with the passing of time, with the help of its teachings has been deeply implanted into our race’s individual and collective consciousness by those who for centuries, until fairly recently, were preaching hellfire and brimstone from their pulpits. Their most urgent task seems to have been telling their congregations that the whole lot of them were nothing but worthless miserable worms and a sinners. No reasons given, we just were. But why should anyone be that?
* Recommended Reading:
‘The Age Of Aquarius’
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