Friday, January 8, 2010

Tiger Woods should "Find Jesus"?

Britt Hume flabbergasted me with his diatribe about how it would benefit Tiger Woods to "find Jesus".  I had always respected Mr. Hume as being an intelligent and well-versed member of the press corps.  What does it mean when he says Tiger should "find Jesus" and he will be cured of all his ills?  Methinks he misstates the reality of this statement.  If he means that Tiger Woods should turn away from his religion and become a member of Mr. Hume's church in order to "be saved", then the newsman is more intolerant than I thought and is spreading dangerous thinking.

It's true that a person will shine with the Christ Light if he or she has "found Jesus", but when a fundamentalist thinker uses this term, it can lead to big problems.  This is where the trouble comes from with Islamic terrorists:  intolerance and ignorance about a certain religion.  The God that I know and worship never commands and never condemns his children.  What kind of a God would that be?  Certainly not one I would want to worship.

Finding Jesus, to me, means turning within and finding the Kingdom of Heaven within us, as Jesus taught.  This inner light will open up to us as the Christ Light inside all of us and, if we allow it, will shine forth to everyone.  Because darkness hates the light, evil hates goodness, etc., the person who has opened up to this Christ Light within will only want to do loving acts.  I can't talk for Mr. Hume, but I suspect that when he says this about Tiger Woods, he is intending for Tiger to start going to a Christian church, where he will be led to accepting Christ as his savior.  This would be a great start, but everyone in all religions can find the Christ Light, the God Consciousness within them without denouncing their own religion.  God is in all of us, not just certain people who attend various churches.

This is my reality, and I'm sticking to it.

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