The Meaning of Life with Dr. Bob

You know the saying, “I wish I had a dollar for every . . . .” I lost count early in my full time life coaching career (clergy) of the number of times people came to me and told me of their childhood in church. How they were scared to death over what was described to them as Hell. How if they did not conform to the teachings of that particular religion, that’s where they would spend eternity. I just got a Facebook the other day about how a woman’s child was fussing in worship service. A man sitting nearby took the child from the woman and began spanking him. Wow!

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Yet, some religious organizations are complaining about the increased secularization of society. That means that people are turning away from the religious organizations and trying to run their own lives. I say hurray! I say this, hurray, from one who spent his entire adult life, from age 18 until retirement at 61, being responsible to see that folks knew and followed what my religious organization taught. I still remember the day when a woman come to me after a worship service of that organization and said, “You got to tell me what to do. I’ve always relied on the church to do that.” I told her I would not do that. But I could help her find her own way. She was visibly upset with my reply. Shortly, she left the particular religious organization I served.

My point is this: it is time for all humans to begin to make up their own minds. I know that some do not want to do that. Many, maybe even a majority, still want someone else to tell them what to do. I believe people need to decide for themselves.

If people do this, some will say, there will be religious anarchy. There is now. Some will say that people won’t behave if there are no threats of hell. (Threats of hell were deliberately used over the centuries to have people be kept in line.) We have got to come into a new age where people decide for themselves to behave, whatever that means, because it is the best for them to do for themselves. I behave well because that will get me the best for myself.

When you have found happiness within by being in contact with the Supreme Consciousness of the Universe, which is the meaning of life, you will, naturally, want to fulfill that happiness in the world. Find you bliss within and beam that bliss into the world. What do you think would happen if everyone started trying to do this? I think that peace would break out on the earth. I think that sanity would break out on the earth. I think that conservation of all species on this planet would break out. I think that we would have a far, far better chance of surviving the next 100 years as the species we name human.

So, I say, hurray! For the great secularization of society. Let people choose for themselves as they are taught the consequences of their own actions. Let us drift away from religions that tell us we have to do it this way or go to hell. Nonsense. Let us drift toward ideas that teach us we are responsible for our own actions and their consequences. But this is not new with me. Such has been taught and demonstrated for thousands of years.

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