Brother, you say there is but one way to worship and serve the
Great Spirit. If there is but one religion, why do you white people differ
so much about it? Why not all agreed, as you can all read the Book?
Sogoyewapha, "Red Jacket" – Seneca My
Friend suggested what then seemed a novel idea. He said, "Why don't you
choose your own conception of God?" That
statement hit me hard. It melted the icy intellectual mountain in whose
shadow I had lived and shivered many years. I stood in the sunlight at
last. Big Book
pg. 12 We
have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which
faith can be acquired. If what we have learned and felt and
seen means anything at all, it means that all of us, whatever our
race, creed, or color are the children of a living Creator with whom we
may form a relationship upon simple and understandable terms as soon as we
are willing and honest enough to try. Those having religious affiliations
will find nothing disturbing to their beliefs or ceremonies. There is no
friction among us over such matters. Big Book
pg. 28 Grandfather help us to understand that many paths lead to the top of the mountain.
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