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THE GOD PACT – PART THREE Why the God Pact is Necessary in Today’s World and What YOU Can Do About It God has been used to justify war for centuries. To the degree this becomes policy, God would prevent war rather than cause it. Complete respect is maintained for every peaceful religion or form of worship no matter what it might be; all are equally respected. No individual is in any way coerced into giving up their faith – they are simply taught respect toward others, which everyone deserves.

The true God transcends all religions, yet is part of them all. He is not owned exclusively by any of them – no religion can logically lay claim to a monopoly on an agreed upon, all-loving, non-exclusive God. This view is similar to the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance, where it briefly acknowledges “one nation, under God,...” But the God Pact goes one step further and places “all nations under God” (who sign the Pact), whose goal is to live in harmony. It also puts in place proper conduct involving a path towards world peace, including compassion and mutual respect.

Children have a harder time than adults in showing compassion or mutual respect and can be very cruel to their peers. But adults have retained these shortcomings. They simply exhibit them in more subtle – but equally devastating – ways.

We are all children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God’s name with the wrong alphabet blocks. —Tennessee Williams

There’s been nothing wrong with God all this time. It’s what’s wrong with us that has been causing all the problems. To solve these problems, we all need to acknowledge God, together. We need to acknowledge our shortcomings in observing Him, and begin to do so properly and respectfully, through formal agreement, and begin to act accordingly in world affairs to reflect it.

How long will grown men and women in this world keep drawing in their coloring books an image of God that makes them sad? —Meister Eckhart

The true God is a God of love, not sadness. We have warped His image and connected Him to causes of sadness to shift the blame from us. War and violence have made mankind sad and it is time we grew up. We really are God’s children and are slowly learning how to act. We have begun to understand that God is not responsible for war. It is, and has always been, us. We must take responsibility for our actions and put in place something that will express the love of God rather than the vengeance of men. Our ignorance has caused damage but we are learning how to correct it. Slowly, over the centuries, we have become less barbaric. We no longer throw people to the lions in arenas or burn them at the stake. In a collective way we are evolving in a spiritual sense and becoming closer to God. There is still further to go, but if you look at the bigger historical picture you can see that we have indeed progressed. Great people like Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. have raised the consciousness of millions and made tremendous progress through non-violent means, while remaining close to their guidance from God. Today, we have reached the realization that the more collective an effort we make to stop forms of violence, the more positive the results will be.

 The God Pact can be the most collective effort, so far, that we have ever made. It is, once again, not an attempt to eliminate any religion, but to create mutual respect and an acceptance of God by them all. Worshipping the true God means to act in loving ways and to eliminate violent acts, as nations and as individuals. Any religion claiming to have a violent God in sections of its texts or belief structure would be recognized as needing revision, based on the fact that the early formation of religious ideas required violent thoughts and actions among followers in a world that was more ignorant and barbaric than the one we have today. We now know today that violent religious actions, beliefs and wars only propagate more pain and violence. Far less is gained through such actions and beliefs than what was originally envisioned by some of the early religious founders and their followers. History bears this out, and it is a lesson we should have learned by now. Much of the world today is economically and spiritually bankrupt as a result. A nation, religious system or person is not capable of finding God by using violent actions, although these actions may sometimes be necessary for self-preservation, through self-defense.

The God Pact should be drawn up and presented to those few nations that would clearly consider it at this time. Often times ideas like this can be totally ignored by every single authoritative power in existence, which would be sad. But as little as two island nations could draw it up between themselves and sign it, making sure that the wording will stand the test of time and allow for future signers to join the alliance. The wording can be inter-changed to accommodate individuals who agree with it and could sign it on a personal level, whether local elections include it or not. You can therefore treat your friends and neighbors accordingly, as the pact suggests. Did you sign the God Pact? Yes, I did. Publicize it and it will spread. With governmental bodies, the agreement should include a clause allowing it to be integrated with one or more larger, similar alliances at a later time, if keeping with its main premise. We urge somebody, anybody, to take the first steps. A meaningful, grass roots movement must start somewhere. Why not here? Why not with you?

The Vatican represents the Catholic people and it is a nation unto itself – recognized as a national territory under international law. It has borders, coins its own money and maintains formal diplomatic relations with 174 different countries. Since they are supposed to be closest to God and serve as a representative in this respect, promoting such a pact would seem like a good opportunity for them. The word Catholic means “universal,” or “all-inclusive,” so such a pact would seem fitting for an organization that could then live up to its name and promote a new era of peace. Again, such a pact is not meant to threaten any religion in any way; it just asks acknowledgment of God as our universal, loving father. Maybe someone should present this to them for their consideration. It may still be too “radical” for them to openly promote, but if the movement grows in other areas there could one day come a time when they develop more serious consideration.

Quantum physics and advanced sciences are proving that there is a God-force that connects all things. God really is connected to each of us, but we have failed to acknowledge it. In recognizing this truth maybe we, as humans, need to make a unified effort to connect to God. This one step, connecting to God officially, via the God Pact, is the most practical way to accomplish this. It offers a clear way to begin the process by involving virtually everyone. The God Pact is not only a genuine effort at world peace. It is an effort to realize the ultimate goal of religion, which is to connect back to God.

The word religion means to “rebind.” “Ligio” means “to bind,” and “re” means to “do again.” We cannot rebind something unless we were actually bound to it before, in the first place. For example, to retie a shoe means it was once properly tied. Somehow we have lost our connection to God, at least consciously, and we are trying to rebind ourselves back to God through our various forms of “re-ligion.” Based on the state of the world, with its violence, misery and continued degradation of the things that support our life on the planet, we have clearly failed to gain back our connection to God. We cannot do it by going into a physical church, by reading out of physical books, or by binding ourselves with other church members because all of that exists “out there.” Our connection to God is not “out there.” The kingdom of God is within you. It is one thing to teach that concept—it is another to find ways to realize it, to actualize it. Attempting to live it in a setting of peace, through mutual agreement among all peoples, may bring out such experiences. Concepts will never serve you as well as experience.

The world needs to get serious about its predicament and get to the root of its problems. The God Pact provides a way to do this. With nations, peace should be a natural state of affairs. If all nations would agree to be peaceful, you are left with only radical sub-groups, which are more easily controlled. As a nation, you must make a conscious choice to be violent and to harm others. Building armies and having weapons are still necessary in today’s world for defensive purposes, so should certainly not be banned. But we can work toward the lessening of their use.

What does the God Pact means to you, as an individual? This could be the most meaningful pact you will ever make. If you do have part of God within you – and this is being experienced by some and borne out by science – then what could possibly be more important on a personal level than to make a focused effort to align with it?

This approach to alignment and proper conduct, and then agreeing to abide by it on a mass level, has been missing from the history of mankind. Some may be skeptical and ask, “How could such a thing really be enforced?” It can’t. “Enforced” is a bad word, because it includes the word “force.” In large part, the God Pact is not something that can be “forced” in any way on an individual. By agreeing to it, you are reflecting your very essence, which is connected to a loving God. You cannot force your own essence. The vast majority of people have good hearts to begin with and this general goodness will be put into the public consciousness even more so, with the spreading of the God Pact. The only “forcing” that would result would be that war-mongering governments would have to abide by the wishes of the vast majority of mankind.

The God Pact, signed by each individual who can make a conscious decision, can also “bind you back to God” through a conscious choice. Pacts are the same as contracts, and contracts are binding instruments. Do you want to change the world and live in peace – or at least help create such a climate for your children? The God Pact is waiting. It has just been born and you have an early draft before you. Will it ever be considered? If no countries ever do it, you can. We all have that choice. We use money every day but ignore its stated message –  “In God We Trust.” These words are empty to us because we do not know God well enough yet. Before you trust someone, you should know them first. We blindly trust in God while doing foolish things, thinking He will guide us through. The point of the God Pact is get God’s guidance first, before acting.

Please send this to those you think would be interested. It was John Lennon who once said, “Give peace a chance.” We tried, but that peace never happened. It is time to give God a chance, and then maybe that peace will happen. Please spread the word and give the God Pact a chance.

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