I debated with myself whether to publicly comment on why I always decline requests to include local churches, (not one is independent), expecting my opinions will cost me a few real estate clients, but my personal conviction that I should stand up for what I believe in is more important...

Though many good people attend church, and some individual churches may be of benefit to those who are seeking answers, religions are another matter.

Everyone has access to the spirit of God, which communicates at the highest level each of us is able to understand, always guided by its endless love. No intermediaries are necessary. Words like "love one another" are a universal truth, an innate knowledge, and carry with them their own authority. But with this one giant pearl of wisdom, the man-made words of God annexed to this knowledge are often given too much credit.

Everyone ruled by love has eternal life, no matter their religion, if any. Every god business pretends to understand the Almighty better than anyone else, as if they have some access the rest of us do not. To help sell their views, they threaten destruction or rebuke for anyone who disagrees with them. They all believe differently, yet they all know best, and the only thing they have in common is claiming everyone else knows less. The teachings of Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed were all warped into businesses, resulting in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. All of these religions have inflicted monumental suffering from their fanaticism. They would not have done so if they were really guided by a God (ruled by love). Furthermore, if God is love, and love and money together is prostitution, then what is religion but spiritual harlotry perfected to a science. Priestcraft is the oldest men's profession.

As for Jesus, he was clearly enlightened. But many words have been put in his mouth, and God's mouth, by the people who turned him into a business for power and profit. And they also put him above us so they could be above us in his absence. The Moses and Mohammed businessmen did the same kind of things. (How ironic that Jesus was killed for trying to stop the Moses business, then others turned him into one!)
 

I would also note that people who claim the Bible is the infallible word of God are people who haven't studied it, who have been misled by those who profit from it, or the profiteers themselves. Many religious followers accept things they don't understand because people who supposedly represent God taught them, these same charlatans cleverly mixing the great universal pearl of truth ("love one another") with their false doctrines... For example, regardless of what some preachers claim, it was not the voice of God that told Abraham to kill his son Isaac. We put people in jail or asylums who listen to voices like that. And it was certainly not God who led Moses to try killing every man, woman, child and baby of the Amalekites (1 Samuel 15.3), any more than "God" led Hitler to try exterminating the Jews. Nor was it God who told the Israelites to kill every Midianite except the virgin girls, nor was it God who commanded that a woman may never instruct a man, nor was it God who instructed..... you get the idea.

Every church should be completely independent of any outside bureaucracy, subject only to the will of the people who participate at that church. And love should be the only required doctrine!

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