For Christmas a friend, knowing I'm a classic Saturday Night Live lover (especially the 1970's shows) gave me a DVD set of the third season. One of these shows had a sketch featuring Chevy Chase called the Church of Confusion.
As Chevy rambled on, throwing phrases and platitudes from various religions, I started to think. That is what we've become at times, at least from where I'm observing; we've become a Church of Confusion. We have needlessly complicated the Almighty (God, etc. - whatever!) by bogging down simple basic beliefs like showing love of God by loving one another. We took something simple and beautiful and we buried it in ritual, covered it in candlewax and statues, and we relegated it to the background. We made the ritual more important than God. When somebody else feels differently about the rituals and rites of another it gets said that 'Well, theirs isn't the right way' - I have heard that from more than one church in my lifetime. We preach and teach, throw human-made conditions (no drinking/dancing/partying/joy; must feast/famine/tithe/suffer). We're a lot of unnecessary headaches, we human beings. God never asked for this.
I stand on the platform of the goddess Unity and I beg of each and every one of us to make this a church of Union, not a church of Confusion. Such is the voice of reason and common sense, which does not get heard nor does it make sense at times.
Don't complicate the Creator. Just do as was placed within you at your creation - love one another. To love each other is the highest form of worship we can offer the One that made us. If the rites and rituals bring you closer to the Creator then carry on; just remember that all the rituals and hymns in the world are meaningless if we do not love.
Let there be peace, and Let it begin with me. Rev. K Hyler
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