What do all founders of religion have in common?

Question

They only intend to teach and show people a way of life, but never wanted to start a cult. Jesus wanted to get people to live a life of compassion and faith in God. Muhammad wanted to wake people up from worshiping symbols and objects that are meaningless and teach them a lifestyle similar to what Jesus taught. Siddhartha Gautama of Buddhism wanted to teach people to reach enlightenment. Guru Nanak of Sikkhism created a way of life in between the Muslim's and Hindu's philosophy. Confucius promoted a life of wisdom and Lao Tzu of Taoism promoted a life of balance and etc. All these founders have something in common. They only wanted to teach a way of life, not start a cult. Jesus never said to build a church system that would look like today's system (which consists of a lot of riches, gold, and pride). I realized that the people after the founders start the cult which holds immense pride and corruption. We are forgetting about the way of life, the most important aspect of religion.

They only intend to teach and show people a way of life, but never wanted to start a cult. Jesus taught a life of compassion and faith in God. Muhammad wanted to wake people up from worshiping symbols and objects that are meaningless and teach them a lifestyle similar to Jesus. Siddhartha Gautama of Buddhism wanted to teach people to reach enlightenment. Guru Nanak of Sikkhism created a way of life in between the Muslim's and Hindu's philosophy. Confucius promoted a life of wisdom and Lao Tzu of Taoism promoted a life of balance and etc. All these founders have something in common. They only wanted to teach a way of life, not start a cult. Jesus never said to build a church system that would look like today's system (which consists of a lot of riches, gold, and pride). I realized that the people after the founders start the cult with immense pride and corruption. We are forgetting about the way of life, the most important aspect that teaches us to become better people.

Okay, I was supposed to edit that, how do you edit instead of add on to details?

I thought deeply about it and fixed the details to make it blend with your opinions. Anyways, it does not matter whose way of life you follow as long as it helps you try to become a better person and promote humanity. Basically, there is no point to religion if you cannot obtain the way of life they express, otherwise you are just following a cult. There shouldn't be any separations. We should just live as a people, and the ways of life helps us to do that.

Answer 1

No enlightened person would ever want to create a religion; they would just want to spread words of love.

So neither Jesus created Christianity, nor Mohammed created Islam, it was their followers, who later organized themselves and started calling themselves so; that is why they are called 'organized' religion.

So if you wish to see the true forms behind these religions, look at the mystics in these traditions.

When we enshrine, such enlightened people into temples and mosques, we forget their life's messages. We simply chant their words to one another without following them in our own lives. You must have noticed people who truly follow them, they seldom feel the feel the need to preach them or fix other people; they just follow their hearts, as they trust that God will do the rest, and know that they will be guided when needed.

When we enlightened people into Gods, we forget their teachings and their love, out of the window. We simply forget being them, we simply want to preach like them, they preached because they we are asked by God to do so. So let’s first meet the Divine within, and then talk about preaching to others. When we are ‘light’, it spreads automatically, no matter where we are. So talking of light is very different from being the light. Not knowing that difference confuses us.

The confusion also happens because we confuse when we can mouth great truths, we are also following them in our own lives.

That is where most humans go wrong, unless we have lived those truths, we don’t become worthy of preaching them. No robe can give us that virtue, nor can any decree, though a simple ‘presence’ in our hearts can.

You must have notices how most 'super' religious people find it so hard to find their spiritual backbones. The reason is that for so long they have confused it with the spines of their holy books or the moral compass talked about in them so eloquently. They never make an effort to connect with their inner voice, through intuition; they rather open their books each time they are confused rather then opening their hearts to listen to voice of the Wise One, sitting within. Just as they confuse knowing about God with ‘knowing’ Him. Just because they know enough about God, they think they have experienced God.

No book can do that for us, no one can take teach us enough about enlightenment, we all have to bear our personal cross, Jesus did it, so did Mohammed and Buddha, the cross to enlightenment is a personal journey for each one of us. And it is a journey we all are already on, whether we realize it or not. The more we make consciously, the easier our lives get.

And the good news is that one day we will all be, in God.

Answer 2

I agree with everything you said, until you said "Religion. That term alone creates division.Labels Like black, White, Latina or whatever, why can't we just be people?

Those all were great teachers in their time for that cause, but we forget the rules of nature. Opposites attract.

a peaceful nature attracts war, a loving nature attracts hate.

Its is all the same message, religion is what makes each teaching a separate one. If you ever really cross checked them all, its the same concept the only thing separate is the name. All have one Major God, or smaller saints aka deities.
No difference.

Answer 3

As far as I can tell the thing in common that all founders of religion have is that they all encourage their followers to live a life of purity, (both body and spirit) compassion, and love for their fellow man. The passions and the soul, because they are two different parts of us entirely, are usually counter to each other. In otherwords, the thing one strives to do spiritually usually battles with what the ego/passion/physical part of us wants to do so we're at counterparts within ourselves. We're made that way by nature because we're two components, physical and spiritual. The trick is to bring into submission the physical (ego/passions) part of us, and live in the spirit, which is pure love. Our spirits are pure love, because just as scripture says, "we're made in God's image," and God is love. The "problem" if you will, with religions is that people, because they're human (ego/passions), have not yet been able to bring into submission their ego/passions. That's so hard to do, isn't it? The beautiful thing is that we realize that we need to, and continue to work at it... I do believe that most of us is doing the best we're capable of at any given moment in time. Notice I said most, not all :-)

Answer 4

The East symbolizes The Spirit. The West symbolizes The be conscious. The Spirit and The be conscious agree, as those are the two Witnesses; the two Divine attributes of God. in spite of if it rather is not the fabric issues of this existence that we are to resign now, however the religious issues, the unseen unholy principalities/powers that govern our innovations and coronary heart! (Ephesians 6:12)

Answer 5

Enlightenment. What do all religious people have in common? Ego.

Answer 6

Power!