Charles Bastille
1 min readJul 18, 2021

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If you haven't read A Course in Miracles, I strongly recommend you do. I am a reluctant adopter of it, because I was sure it went against the Bible, but it actually reinforces the parts of it that make the most sense.

It's a difficult to parse tome, and the various interpretations of it are faulty. It needs to be read cover to cover in order to appreciate the message.

I've been reading it for a year, and I'm not quite finished. But the "god of ...." stuff you write is exactly what Jesus talks about in the Course of Miracles.

And yes, I do believe he really used the book's "author" as a channel to speak his mind about modern interpretations of Christianity and Freud.

He lists all those gods specifically, and assigns their source to the Ego, which always acts against our best interest.

He says, in effect, that all of those things are not a part of God at all, and our meditative and prayer practice will only be effective when we can single out the truth of what God is inside of all of us.

He says all the various god of.... things you list is a form of insanity because they are not part of God's truth.

A Course in Miracles isn't for everybody. It's dense, difficult to read, and seems to fly in the face of much of what traditional Christianity teaches. That's not the case, but that is a fairly prevalent view.

If nothing else, the meditations are great!

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Charles Bastille
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