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To: uu who wrote (49)	10/2/2001 8:31:32 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2926

There's a common ritual greeting known to Hindus as "Namaste" ....they use it universally to acknowledge all people , freely ...from anywhere & everywhere. " I bow to the God that dwells within your heart , that dwells within my own " That one word describes so much of where Christianity, Judaism and Islam got lost . Mohammed had to borrow much from Judaism and those three religions became known as the "Religions of the Book ". A view of genesis from the Judeo-Christian myth (and subsequently in Islam) begins from a separation from God , and being cast out into a fallen Nature. So all three could also just as easily be called the "religions of the fallen " , and those yet to be redeemed . So right from the start , even though you have a God that is most merciful , there is a separation from the Diety ...an "I-Thou " relationship. As Joseph Campbell once aptly described it: "As long as an illusion of ego remains, the commensurate illusion of a separate deity also will be there; and vice versa, as long as the idea of a separate deity is cherished, an illusion of ego, related to it in love, fear, worship, exile or atonement, will also be there" Mohammed may have tried to bridge the gap somewhat , but fell short with this fundamental error . The division of Man , Nature and God is false . There is no Duality . No Trinity . One could see God creating the universe and spreading out and diffusing throughout all forms , but there is no instance anywhere , where God would not be present . The only demon is the demon of ignorance , and the varying levels of understanding that replaces ignorance as one approaches truth . With the dualism of Christianity, Islam , and Judaism you have the perfect seeds sown for bedlam, distrust and mis- understanding always . It is not the great monumental discovery that Jehova , Allah , or God exists ...but that he exists inside you , each and every one of us all. Ther can be no Infidels then...no Gentiles ....no "unbaptized in the spirit" or Unbelievers ever at all ....but----> there can be in such Religions who's revelations were not rich enough to see, and had to rely on imperfect scripture , priests, and Clerics , who saw only differences. Debating whether Christianity , Judaism or Islam are different is futile ----> because at their cores they all are fundamentally exactly the same , and forever lost in --->Dualism. Man was not ever seperate from God ...and there can never be a "Last Prophet" . LOL! regards ;-) Mars PS: That Mohammed was the "Last Prophet " is an extremely innaccurate statement and belief. There have been those that lived since that would have taught him much more deeper meaning than the just the words he scripted.