What's on TV?

Jesus Camp.

What's going on there?

Well-meaning people attempting to immortalize their religious convictions.

Like how?

They say there are two kinds of people: those who love Jesus and those who don't.

And what does this lead to?

Separation among humans - the kind of division that is directly in opposition to the teachings of Jesus!

This is an "us versus them" attitude. This is the foundation of war.

If Christians really want to be true Christians, then separation of any kind should be the most distant thing from their minds.

How is what Jesus Camp is doing any different than what Al Qaeda is doing?

Not by much. Attack on any level is insanity, and an insane premise based on religious views is twice insane. Attack is the activity of fear. The only goal of fear is to defeat an enemy. Christians have always had an enemy - Satan - now they have "those who do not love Jesus". It does not matter that Christians may say they love their enemy, for in identifying an enemy they automatically promote fear and thereby have established an eventual attack. And that leads to something else - a future, which, being predicated on a past, is anything but living in the present.

Fear is the one thing that Jesus did not teach. Jesus taught love. Fear cannot exist where love is. So if the Jesus Camp is teaching fear on any level (through guilt or by association with anything not of their liking), they can't be true to the teachings of Jesus. Then it's not really a Jesus Camp, is it? Let's call a spade a spade. It's a Fear Camp.

Do Muslims - and speaking specifically about Al Qaeda - love Jesus? Indirectly, if you take into account that Christians believe that Jesus is God. Muslims love God. Muslims also have a high regard for Jesus - just not in the same light as Christians do. Why should that matter to Christians who love Jesus and therefore also love God Whom the Muslims also love? For that matter, why should it matter to Muslims that Christians don't hold the Prophet Muhammed in the same light as they do? What has one icon of Godly authority have over any other? They are all icons, and icons are the one thing that the Prophet Muhammed was against. So what did the Musltims do? They set Muhammed up as an icon! Of all the nerve! Is that any different than the Christians setting Jesus up as an icon? Not any different at all. Isn't that ironic?

Religion is a power play. Each group has their own icon blessed with the highest authority possible. Each group wants to be on top of everyone else simply because it makes them feel good that their group members will be the ones "saved". This kind of power play can only result in the annihilation of one or more of such groups. And we've seen that already in Muhammed's complete destruction of all religious orders that did not agree with his views - and it appears that his followers are still at it. And that feat was followed by the Christians in the Crusades. We also see this all the time in the power play between street gangs, between corporations, and between countries. Every group has its own agenda. What lunacy is this?

So by all means, let the Jesus Camp continue on its self-destructive path. Let Al Qaeda continue on its self-destructive path. Let all religions and man-made ideals continue on their path of self-destruction. In the end, what will be left are those who finally realize that Mankind is ONE. Mind is ONE. All thoughts have ONE source. The only purpose and activity of that source is Love.

Christians and Muslims, try to see your brother as yourself. See God in all life. See your only purpose as extending the Love of God rather than in defeating some idol of your own making.

When people of all faiths give up their fear of everything, religious war just might be a thing of the past. Then maybe we can teach the non-religious world that fear is senseless, thereby making war altogether a forgotten memory.

Teach only love, for that is what you are. - A Course In Miracles, Text, Ch 6.