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So it's approaching midnight and I'm very tired but I just got back from a bible study group. The focus of the evening was John 15, and related hymns were sung. I had a lot of questions but this is what's still lingering in my mind.

What do you think in regards to other religions? Do you think they're wrong or that they're achieving the same thing as you are just in a different way?

I think the response was something like "They can't be accessed by God in other religious contexts so God can't be with them but God also can't reach Catholics either because they don't seek God, they seek religion. Their practice is based solely on tradition not on God."

Another point was raised that humans were made in God's image and have a spirit but other animals and plants do not, which is where I disagreed from the perspective of oneness. The group were very much in awe of 'God' as a higher power that was better than them, more complex and a mystery that cannot be fully understood but my understanding, based on mostly Hindu teachings, is that God is as much us, as we are God. There is nothing but God/being/consciousness/is-ness and I think the personification of the idea of God is where they were wrong. They've put themselves down and accepted that they will always be second to 'God' and put other non-human beings even lower than that. I think it's kind of insane to think that we are better than the trees or better than the wildlife that lives alongside it because humans are the cause of all negativity. Yes we obviously cause a lot of harm to animals and the planet but aside from that, all the pain we cause each other is only bad because we've culturally decided it's bad. So what I mean is that the only suffering we experience is entirely based on two factors:

1. We are trapped in a 'physical' body that experiences 'physical' pain.

2. Culture has predetermined I should not like this so I should be scared of it. 

So in the Christian version of events, their God gave them a body but in the Hindu version of events the body is the sole hinderance to existing as God/love/eternality/all-encompassing-oneness. So I am still confused as to why Christians believe they were gifted their body by a higher power if all it does is fail us, cause us complex culturally decided fears and ultimately destroys everything we come into contact with.

The response to that I can imagine is that it's all part of 'God's plan' but idk I wouldn't trust someone that I truly believe is solely responsible for all of my suffering, even if they promise they'll make it go away someday. But jokes on me because that is the type of person I put my trust in so you could draw the conclusion that Christians are in an abusive relationship with God.