So ... what if?
What if everything that you thought you knew to be right or wrong, didn’t matter?
What if the God you were taught to believe in didn’t exist?
What if God is Female?
What if he, she, or it is not wearing long flowing robes?
What if god is red, black, or yellow?
What if that church, synagogue, mosque, temple, or shrine was merely man’s attempt to create order out of confusion?
What if that prophet, leader, savior, or guru were just men or women who had an idea?
What if all that money and time you gave was used for selfish purposes?
What if it doesn’t matter whether you wear special underwear, a yamaka, a veil, robes, a camauro, or rainbow colored tattoos?
What if all these thousands of religions, mostly claiming to be the only way, are wrong?
What if when we die, that is the end of our existence?
Will we be met by an all knowing judge at some kind of gate, portal, or heaven and have to recite a special word or offer a secret hand shake?
What if that leader, prophet, or guru was only responding to a bad dream because he had eaten some spicy food the night before?
What if your neighbors religion is right and your religion is wrong?
What if the life we live on earth, is all there is?
What if this life is one of many and we get to plan each life?
What if all the woes and troubles that you experience are because of your own decisions?
What if the cancer, accidents, and traumatic life are all the result of your own creation?
What if you could create anything you desired?
What if you are god?
What would you do?
What kind of earth would you create?
What kind of rules would you make?
Would you exclude from your presence, any who broke your rules?
Would you command your children to kill one another because a rule was broken?
Would you create a church that would teach your children to fear you?
Would you insist that your children bow down and worship you?
Would you create something only to destroy it?
Would you allow your children to mock your rules?
Would you choose a favorite child and give him exclusive rights to which children would be allowed to return?
What if nothing you did mattered?
What if this earth is only one of countless places we have lived as part of an eternal journey though a limitless universe?
What if we are lost in space?
What if god travels in a space ship?
What if god is a whale or a dolphin or a turtle?
What if we made the whole thing up?
What if you and I are only variations of the same god?
What if there is no plan and anything and everything is open to experience?
What if this is a giant free for all?
What if my sacred cow becomes your happy meal?
What if that happy meal is Uncle John or Grandma Jones?
What if my sacred text becomes a comedy hit on Broadway?
Can you say with certainty that any or all of these things are valid or not?
Does that certainty come from a personal experience or is it based on childhood programing that you received?
Does that personal experience include a one on one with god, goddess, all there is?
Was that experience tailored to your limited earthly understanding to favor your programming?
Are we really talking monkeys on a cosmic journey, traveling through space?
I am unable to answer for a certainty.
I am a product of my programing.
I would like to believe there is a plan to this life.
In the mean time ...
I will treat others as I wish to be treated.
I will see myself in others.
I will honor all life.
I will strive to follow my heart.
I will judge no man.
I will laugh at myself.
I will cease to follow.
So ... What if?
