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No, unity and uniformity are not the same thing. There can, should be, and is great diversity in unity. Whatever divisions we may imagine are either not real, or are secondary identities that serve the great identity of the universe -- including us -- as "one."
But as we can see, not all religion/beliefs agree that they're all "one" when the difference/contradiction is present between them, so maybe the practical sense about "one" is that many different individual/divisions/religion/beliefs/non-beliefs tolerate with each other, live and let live?
That's part of the brokenness of humanity, that we are egocentric, rather than outward-looking. Science tells us that human beings are human beings, "race" is a convenient division, as are national and religious differences. But none of them are, in and of themselves. our true identity. Our identity is "all of us."
Fact is, we are souls that are bodies, bodies matter, the earth matters, and we have already inherited the earth, because it is part of us.
You mean like a person's true identity is the combination of every people's different identity?
Yes. Thomas Berry says, "Nothing is itself without everything else. Nothing exists in isolation."
To love and work
I can't see the relevancy of that.
I myself have all that, and I don't have any beliefs in a god.
Sounds to me as if your mission here is to proselytize, which is against the forum rules.
Who gave you the authority to speak on behalf of the church? Or is this some misplaced ego trip? How can one purify what is not 1) theirs to purify, and 2) does not need "purification" of the sort you mean?
