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I believe in many things are saying the same thing just in different symbols and understandings.

I view all of life as being spiritual and having an overall transcendental experience to it. With my views being open as they are they developed over the years! Being heavy involved with missions work and youth ministry through the facet of eastern judeo Christian reborn. I am grateful to learn and hopeful Growing up in a lax household we not pressured to believe in any sort of religion except for family. My family believes mainly in the western depiction of a mythological savior aka Jesus Christ. Being said, most of my external family is the same way or practices some form of worshiping the western depiction of God. Viewing God as a patriarchal figure for most of my life I never really questioned my spiritual beliefs until high school. Gaining insight in versed yet perennial concepts of religions all I saw was sameness in all of it. Introduced to the Bhagavad Gita, Koran, Tibetan Book of the Dead, Zen Buddhism, The Beatniks, along with Shamanism, Shintoism, Jainism, Sikhism was a whirl wind the next few years through the end of high school and onto college. This whirl wind of philosophy, spirituality, art, geopolitics, as well as Karl Marx Religion is the opiate of the masses. Thus, as a side note I believe Karl Marx was saying in that quote that, people have to identify with a concept to feel spiritually whole instead of finding their own values and inner enlightenment discovering their own path within themselves a spiritual connection. From watching the surrounding world religions seems like it is the most vital yet most manipulated in all the acts of humankind. Hence, from many individuals which have used

religions as a means of violence and sacrifice for their own desire ignorance and hatred? Witnessing all the happenings of todays Israel, Middle East along with modern day religious coups in South America, the means to use religion as a catalyst seems like the most volatile. All this greed based upon monetary slavery and debt. Humanity is ultimately connected. No matter what ideology east or west we are all of the same root and essence. Once we realize and understand one anothers religions and ways of life we can accept each belief system holistically rather than just on our terms. With the education of our world and cultures we can see why violence is never the answer and our economic puppet show called a monetary system is the true fugitive. We are all connected no matter what race creed or orientation, we must look through the heart to understand such complex problems in our world.

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