"The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.
'" "Beyond the Catholic exclusionary paradigm is a larger one which is the Christian one.
Christians claim that if you don't believe in Christ, you can't get to heaven.
Well that eliminates two thirds of the world's population!" "The Roman Catholics teach that unless you're a Roman Catholic you do not go to heaven.
" "They may not use the word better.
But they certainly believe that they'll go to heaven and Jews will not.
" "I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.
" "It becomes 'our neighborhood is better than your neighborhood.
' It becomes 'our family is better than your family.
'" "It graduates to 'our state is better than your state,' and 'our nation is better than your nation.
' And it circles all the way around to where it started: 'Our God is better than your God.
'" "If we win, someone else loses.
But if someone else loses, we lose.
Which is a point we're not getting.
The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious.
" "It'll become obvious that we've really been working against ourselves.
" "I called my book series the 'with God series.
' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God.
This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet.
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