A Shared Ethic.

The activist sites that appear on the internet exhibit the values of equality, justice, compassion, courage, ecological responsibility, and unconditional love.

These are the values that have been handed down by the Hippies to the next generation.

When considering Progressive Christianity we find the same set of values.

And those who call themselves spiritual but not religious have not rejected God or Jesus, they have rejected institutionalized religion with its rules and regulations about sex and its love affair with the conservative establishment.

The secular religious, who find God in nature not in human constructions, will not stand for negative doctrines like Penal Substitution or Original Sin, and have been taught to subject everything to the test of logic.

Progressive Christians will not stand for these things either.
We have applied the tests of positivity and logic to the doctrines of Christianity and come up with a new set of beliefs based on Jesus' teachings.

So what we have is a shared ethic.

Secular notions of God are vague and amorphous.
But people will not enter a church for fear of being indoctrinated and  castrated, or disempowered and subjugated.

So we find strange manifestations of spirituality like witchcraft and tarot, Kabbalah and magic, even black magic and Satanism.

These are akin to the perversions of the sexual impulse which come about because of repression of our natural urges.

The secular is captive to the popular culture with all its negativity and destructive influences.

So how are we to bring about a marriage between the secular spiritual and Progressive Christianity that would cast aside the negative influences that plague our society?

Firstly, we must develop a form of Christianity that is uncompromisingly positive and contributes in positive ways to our society, humanity, and indeed the earth as a whole.

Secondly, we must rid the secular spiritual of their fears.
We must be able to assure them that they will not be indoctrinated with negative ideas.

Thirdly, we must show them the negative influences which are sabotaging their spiritual search.  And the pathway to God which will deliver them.

Finally, we must not judge them but treat them with the unconditional love to which we aspire.

Then, and only then, will the marriage take place.      


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