Can We Really Say Goodbye To God?

 

Dear Friends & Family of the Heart:
 
Let's think about it all over again for a moment.
 
First: The topic is very simple, very clear, very transparent. We are
debating the idea of whether we can say goodbye to god, not a specific god
whose followers tend to flare up at the drop of a hat.
 
Second: When we come together as a family to debate the idea of whether or
not we can say goodbye to god, where does the idea of revelation of a
specific nature come into all this?
 
It appears to be a simple matter, really, but it is not that simple after
all, as we have seen so far, with 288 volleys to our credit.
 
As we contemplate whether we can say goodbye to god or not, some
simple-minded folks have reminded us in extremely volatile language that we
dare not cross the line.
 
Yet, so far, no one has come forward to answer the simple question, Can We
Say Goodbye to God?, with any degree of rational clarity.
 
Instead, we have bogged down in ditchwater.
 
No one has taken the initiative to ask, What is this thing we call God? Is
God a male or female entity? Where did S/He come from? Why is S/He important
in our lives anyway? And, seriously, can we say goodbye to this thing we
call God?
 
No one has said God is part of our operative motherboard, that it is the
core of our conditioning. No one has used the word conditioning, because
god, any god, is a product of human conditioning within a particular
geography, a particular history, and a particular mental ecology.
 
No one has come forward to say that he or she feels one with God, has
attained inner peace and harmony with the source of all being, or that s/he
begs to differ with God about all the inequities we see in the world around
us, including the recent tsunami, the hurricane Katrina, or the 7.6
magnitude earthquake that has rocked Pakistan. Where does God come into all
this? Or does S/He?
 
No one has attempted to define the term 'God' in such a way that we can all
be on the same wavelength.
 
Everyone's idea of god appears to be something else, as if we were
rebuilding the Tower of Babel.
 
We have heard inspired voices from Bedlam, yet they make no sense to anyone.
The argument continues. And much of the correspondence pasted on this
website is out of point.
 
The bulk of it is like an exercise in self-gratification, and we appear to
be none the wiser--none of us. Has anyone changed his or her perspective
about God and can say with certainty that we can or cannot kiss goodbye to
God?
 
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we made universal sense out of something as
catholic and liberal as the simple sounding question, Can we say goodbye to
God?
 
Think again, folks. Can we get back on track?
 
Who needs high-falutin' words from this or that holy book?
 
Instead, we need ideas, not words. Ideas from you and me about what we think
should have been, not the nonsense that's been around for thousands of years
which has solved or resolved nothing.
 
We need to ascertain if we can tolerate ideas, ours or those of others, not
show how dogmatic we are. After all, this is the new, 21st century Family of
the Heart. Or are we a bunch of cardiac cripples who cannot speak their
mind?
 
We are not doing that.
 
We are meandering.
 
Please tell me, for I am genuinely interested to know, can we say goodbye to
God or are we just wasting each other's time?
 
Thank you.     
 
Rashid Mughal
 

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