While working for this kingdom of God we cannot afford to repeat certain historical mistakes. Hitler came and perished with his big time ethnic elimination. There is still ethnic and religious cleansing going on in different parts of the world. Authoritarian communism failed. Revised or modified authoritarian communism seems to be making economic progress in China. We do not know how long it will last. We do not know how long vicious and all-consuming capitalism will hold sway. One nation (Palestine) that needed to be born long ago in 1948 keeps on being aborted in the face of humanity making the entire humanity a laughing-stock. While Zionism from mostly Europe and North-America strategically created a Jewish state of Israel in the middle East by systematically buying up Palestinian Muslim properties through money power, there are concerns in certain quarters, expressed not too obviously, that oil wealth of gulf and Muslim countries learned a great deal from Zionism, and are swallowing up properties in other parts of the world to bring about Islamic dispensation and hegemony in the world without Jihad that causes blood-shed. Interestingly the fundamentalist Muslims are doing this using the very freedom in other countries that they negate persons of other religions in their own countries. To cite one example, there is no religious freedom in Saudi Arabia, the heart of Islam. Another accusation leveled against Islam is expansion and propagation of Muslim population through encouragement of births. While there are many Christian missionaries involved in the work of conversion, there are a few enlightened Christians who are happy with merely witnessing to Christ’s teachings without conversion.
My long religious life and associations with various religions, I have come to the conclusion that we need spirituality beyond religions that can be enshrined in the Kingdom of God, and that is the driving force behind every action. In the Kingdom of God, people of all religions can come together and work for the betterment and all-round development of humanity that is truly the body of God. In this kingdom, all are treated with respect as God’s children. All are well taken care of as brothers and sisters. All are loved and cared for. All can practice their religions and worship the gods that their religions created in the way they feel right in their conscience as long as they do not violate fundamental human rights of others. The time has come for this great endeavor.
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