I don't know. I haven't seen it. He does say G!d doesn't love, G!d is love, G!d doesn't judge, you know, the we are not punished for our sins but by them..
Well put, Wil.
With regard to sin, suffering, righteousness, and reward, I offer (poem XXg on my blog; sorry, it's kind of long):
SIN IS NO CRIME, RIGHTEOUSNESS NO VIRTUE
Present in every man and
In every man the same,
Spirit is as much man’s birthright as flesh.
Their birthright being to both flesh and to spirit,
All men are justified at birth,
Born into the justice – the truth – that
The life of man is simply thus –
Lived on the balance between flesh and spirit.
From the day of his birth,
Man grows to the flesh –
To the body, to the heart, to the mind, and
To the Self arising therefrom.
Grown to flesh, grown to Self,
Man’s needs become desires –
Desires of the body,
Desires of the heart,
Desires of the mind, and
Of the Self arising therefrom.
Non-believers, estranged from spirit
By the dispositions of their lives,
Hear spirit’s voice but faintly, and
Mistaking its source as arising from the flesh,
Respond only to the flesh –
Respond only to the desires of the body,
Respond only to the desires of the heart,
Respond only to the desires of the mind, and
Of the Self arising therefrom.
Responding only to the flesh, non-believers
Are estranged to spirit, and
It is this estrangement that some call
sin.
Non-believers living lives of
sin are
Committing no crime, for
The truth is that
The life of man is simply thus –
Of both flesh and of spirit, and
Lived there on the balance.
Living lives estranged to spirit
Living lives of
sin,
Non-believers suffer, yet
As the life of man is simply thus –
Of both flesh and of spirit, and
Lived there on the balance,
Sin is no crime, and
Neither is suffering punishment.
The life of man is simply thus –
Of both flesh and of spirit, and
Lived there on the balance.
Present in every man and
In every man the same,
Spirit is as much man’s birthright as flesh.
Their birthright both to flesh and to spirit,
All men are justified at birth,
Born into the justice – the truth – that
The life of man is simply thus –
Lived on the balance between flesh and spirit.
From the day of his birth,
Man grows to the flesh –
To body, to heart, to mind, and
To the Self arising therefrom.
Grown to flesh, grown to Self,
Man’s needs become desires –
Desires of the body, of the heart, of the mind, and
Of the Self arising therefrom, yet
Amidst his desires, man fully human
Hears spirit’s whisperings and
Longs for a happiness
Beyond the flesh –
He longs for spirit, for union.
Hearing spirit’s voice,
Believers turn from the flesh and
Pursue this, man’s greatest happiness –
Nearness to spirit with
The hope of final union.
Growing to spirit,
Believers live lives in
Accord with justice, with the truth
That the life of man is simply thus –
Lived on the balance between flesh and spirit – and
That man’s freedom from suffering and
His greatest happiness, lies in
Growing closer to spirit.
Meditating on the writings of the prophets and
Living lives obedient to the teaching of their elders,
Devotees grow closer to spirit, and this pursuit,
This growth to man’s greatest happiness,
Is called by some,
righteousness, yet
Just as
sin is no crime, nor suffering punishment,
Righteousness is no virtue
Deserving of reward, but
Is – in and of itself – all happiness.
As man’s birthright is both to flesh and to spirit,
All men are justified at birth;
All men are born into the justice – the truth – that
The life of man is simply thus – lived there
On the balance between flesh and spirit,
On the balance between
sin and
righteousness,
On the balance between suffering and happiness
