Well, as a part of the SBNR crowd, I kept trying to read your article with an open mind, despite the continued attacks on our intelligence and motives — which for a moment puzzled me from a reverend and then I remembered that’s why many of us left organized religion: the hypocrisy, shaming and judgment.

If you ask any spiritual seeker how ‘easy’ this path is, they would roll on the ground laughing. Spirituality, or recognizing the Divine within, is the hardest thing I’ve done in my 48 years on this planet. I’ve taken countless deep dives into my own shadow, done endless healing and practice forgiveness and compassion for self and others on a daily basis.

I have zero issue that you prefer to participate in organized religion. What I do take offense to, and will always call out, is the seemingly fervent desire by religious folks to monitor and comment on what others are doing, how we are living and what we believe. I understand your religion teaches you to actively convert ‘non-believers’, I suppose it’s the idea of power in numbers. Perhaps you might want to look into any organization that tries to perpetuate a continuous need for power, might be something there. Personally, I see it as spiritual by-passing, focusing on someone else so as to not have to look at your own stuff.

Just so there is no confusion: IT’S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS WHAT I BELIEVE OR PRACTICE.

You do you and let spiritual people do them. What I believe doesn’t make a lick of difference to what you believe.

By the way, these are only beliefs, not facts. Once we pass from this physical realm, then we’ll know for certain. And according to what I sense about the spiritual realm, we won’t care about ‘being right’ as that’s a human ego trap.

Until then, it’s all speculation anyway…