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.