Where in the world do people get the idea I hate the Bible?
The Bible is just a tool, people either use for religious/spiritual growth or control.
It tells the evolving story of the Jewish history, but only up to the destruction of Jerusalem in 70ad.
The Bible tells the story of a segment of humanity’s attempt to define themselves, and attempts to understand God.
But this is only Christianity’s story of Judaism.
The Bible is not even the Jewish story of Judaism.
The Bible is not your story, nor is it mine.
Our story is written on our hearts, our story is God’s kingdom within.
Forever uniting us with our creator and creation.
This was also Jesus’s story.

The Bible is a story closing the chapter on 4000 Jewish years of history’s religious successes and failures.
You can have the mosiac laws, the rituals, the guilt, suppression and oppression and everything else religion offers.
I will simply take Jesus’s story of love and acceptance from our Father, with No stipulations or demands.

Dan Shaffer

Religion – damned religion – is the culprit. It creeps into otherwise benign aspects of connecting with one’s Source. “Christianity”, “Bible”, “prayer”, “communion”, “meditation”, “God”, “worship”, “grace”, “praise”, “faith” all come under the rubric of ‘no longer entirely agreeable terminology’. The real bugaboo is religion, religion, religion. This organized control seeps into every misguided effort to guide and direct people’s thinking on such a profoundly intimate and personal topic.

RJS