CWG/Abraham-Hicks

Here is an excerpt from Conversations with God Book 3. At the end of the excerpt, God uses a similar analogy to one that Abraham often uses:

"The people of every country think I condone the war they are fighting, and condemn the war that their opponent is fighting. The people of every nation believe they have "God on their side." Every cause assumes the same thing. Indeed, every person feels the same thing-or at least hopes it is true whenever any decision or choice is made.

And do you know why all creatures believe God is on their side? Because I am. And all creatures have an intuitive knowing of this.

This is just another way of saying, "Your will for you is My will for you." And that is just another way of saying, I have given you all free will.

There is no free will if to exercise it in a certain ways produces punishment. That makes a mockery of free will and renders it counterfeit.

So with regard to abortion or war, buying that car or marrying that person, having sex or not having sex, "doing your duty" or not "doing your duty," there is no such thing as right and wrong, and I have no preference in the matter.

You are all in the process of defining yourselves. Every act is an act of self-definition.

If you are pleased with how you have created yourself, if it serves you, you will continue doing so in that way. If you are not, you will stop. This is called evolution.

The process is slow because, as you evolve, you keep changing your ideas about what really serves you; you keep changing your concepts of "pleasure."

Remember what I said earlier. You can tell how highly a person or society has evolved by what that being or society calls "pleasure." And I will add here, by what it declares to serve it.

If it serves you to go to war and kill other beings, you will do so. If it serves you to terminate a pregnancy, you will do so. The only thing that changes as you evolve is your idea of what serves you. And that is based on what you think you are trying do to.

If you are trying to get to Seattle, it will not serve you to head towards San Jose. It is not "morally wrong" to go to San Jose-it simply doesn't serve you."

Edit: Gotta love the synchronicity! Here is a paper I stumbled across while looking for the trouble religious fanaticism has gotten us into. I will paste the link and first two paragraphs here:

On Religious Fanaticism
A Look at Transpersonal Identity Disorder
by
John Firman and Ann Gila
Our world today is torn asunder by men and women who claim that
God is on their side, and who, secure in the righteousness of their
positions, perpetrate acts of violent destruction. Such individuals are
driven by the certainty that they are privy to sacred truths and are
therefore morally obligated to do everything in their power—no matter
how many people may suffer—to act upon these truths. Coupled with
their inflated sense of personal rectitude, moral certainty, and ideological
purity is a tendency to dehumanize and even demonize those who oppose
them.
Although this disorder can be called “religious fanaticism,” those
afflicted need not appear wild-eyed or deranged; quite the contrary, they
can present themselves as thoughtful and responsible people inspired by
the loftiest of ideals. Nevertheless, their absolute confidence in themselves
and their cause, their willingness to create massive destruction for a
supposed higher good, and their dehumanization of their opponents, all
indicate the imbalance of a personality disorder. We need not point out
specific examples of this disorder perhaps, except to say that it can afflict
anyone, from the person on the street, to the international terrorist, to
the leader of the most powerful nation on earth.


http://www.psychosynthesispaloalto.com/pdfs/Religious_Fan.pdf

An interesting read, to say the least...

Edit #2, here's another similarity between the teachings of CwG and my new favorite book, My Big TOE by Thomas Campbell. Here is one place where Tom talks about superiority (I added the bold): "How many of our wars, atrocities, and general acts of meanness have sprung from a sense of superiority? A belief in the supreme importance of humankind is the ultimate source of much mischief. The notion that humans are inherently superior leads to the idea that some humans are superior to, or more significant than, others – a concept that represents the first step down a slippery slope that is both steep and long."