Q repeatedly points out that UNITY is our most important weapon against the Cabal. United we win; divided we remain under the thumb of an Evil that is working to replace benevolent forms of Civilization with a permanent global tyranny.

A UNITED MANKIND is Kryptonite to the Cabal because, as Q puts it (in drop #2526 for instance), PEOPLE ARE INHERENTLY GOOD.

If they weren't, unity would do little to improve the world.

Here's the TL:DR on this essay:

- EVERYONE who follows Jesus' commandment to "Love one another" is part of a SINGLE FAMILY that, UNITED, will END the Cabal of Evil -- REGARDLESS of what formal religion, if any, they follow. LOVE and UNITY are far more important here than THEOLOGY, in part because theology is an attempt to describe a reality beyond human comprehension, and there will never be universal agreement on the topic.

Even as a tree has a single trunk but many branches and leaves, there is one religion -- human religion -- but any number of faiths. -- M. K. Gandhi

I believe that EVERY True Religion (more detail follows) is, at least in part, an attempt to teach and foster emotional health (AKA love) and social harmony -- to, in other words, support the side of Good and to diminish Evil.

Q -- being an American-centric, US-military-aligned, and probably US-military created and run operation (see Drops #3854 and #4438, for instance. 126 drops include the term "military") -- is naturally Christian-centric. The terms "God" (265 drops) and "Christian" (8 drops) are well represented in the Q drops, while "Satanic" or "Satan" -- Satan being the prime Christian adversary -- is mentioned in 14 drops.

"Buddhism" and "Buddhist", on the other hand, are not mentioned at all, anywhere in the Q oeuvre. Nor are "Hinduism", "Jainism", or "Taoism". ("Islam" and "Muslim" are mentioned several times, and often with negative implications. More on this, perhaps, in another essay).

Do other religions than Christianity -- the ones I am calling "True Religions", including several not mentioned above -- make good allies? Are they compatible with the Earthly goals of Christians and do they fit well with the objectives of the Great Awakening?

They do. Judge for yourself:

First, I'll quote Jesus on HIS definition of "Christian" and what He called a new commandment -- which, in my unpopular opinion, encapsulates the essence of His ministry:

John 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.


13:35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

In HIS OWN WORDS (as reported by John and later translated into English), Jesus told us that "if ye have love one to another", you are His disciple -- WITHOUT ANY FURTHER QUALIFICATIONS. Whether you had ever met Him, or heard of Him, or consciously followed Him, He considered that you and He were both living as God intended.

Encouraging people to have love in their hearts was at the CORE of Jesus' ministry. He elevated LOVE and thus COMPASSION to an important, CORE principle. That makes perfect sense, because love is the foundation of healthy, appropriate behavior. As Romans 13:10 puts it:

Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Do practicing Buddhists qualify as "Christian" under THAT definition? That is, under JESUS' OWN DEFINITION?

Yes, absolutely.

Buddhism does not include belief in a creator God, although Buddhism DOES include belief in a type of afterlife (re-incarnation) and other supernatural entities and realities.

Yet practicing Buddhists fit Jesus' own definition of His disciples: they "have love one to another".

There are billions of people who were raised in religions other than Christianity or who have never HEARD of Christianity; some Christians will tell you those people are going to Hell because they "don't believe in Christ."

I do not believe that either Jesus or our Creator is so cruel or senseless.

When Jesus talks about "little ones which believe in me", I am certain He isn't speaking about children who had met or heard about Him and "believed" in Him intellectually but rather Children who had LOVE IN THEIR HEARTS -- who believed and LIVED Jesus' core teaching even if they lived in a faraway land where the name "Jesus" had never been spoken.

Matthew 18:6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. [KJV]

Side note: Jesus' clearly expressed concern for the loving, compassionate, and respectful treatment of CHILDREN is a critically important element of His ministry, because proper treatment early in life creates adults who NATURALLY have love for others, while sufficient trauma can mute access to that love or even over-ride it with anger and hatred. I believe Jesus' teachings in this regard have often been ignored or misinterpreted, sometimes widely and destructively (see the Spanish Inqusition, for example). END of side note.

Despite having no belief in a Christian-type creator God or any formal belief in Jesus, Buddhism IS, in my opinion, a worthy ally to Christianity because it teaches -- nay, insists on -- treating others with love and respect. Practicing Buddhists follow the "new commandment" that Jesus gave us, to "love one another."

Evidence for that includes the Eightfold Path, a central tenet in Buddhism: (from https://spice.fsi.stanford.edu/docs/introduction_to_buddhism -- emphasis added below)

The Eightfold Path consists of three categories: moral conduct, concentration, and wisdom:

Moral conduct consists of:

1 right speech (refraining from falsehood, malicious talk, and abusive language)

2 right action (refraining from stealing, killing, and unchastity)

3 right livelihood (earning a living through proper means, not killing living beings, making astrological forecasts, or practicing fortune-telling)5

Concentration consists of:

4 right effort (energetic will to prevent or get rid of evil and promote goodness)

5 right mindfulness (to be diligently aware, mindful, and attentive)

6 right concentration (to rid oneself of unwholesome thoughts and achieve pure equanimity and awareness)6

Wisdom consists of:

7 right thought (selflessness and detachment, universal thoughts of love and nonviolence)

8 right understanding (understanding of things as they are, a full understanding of the Four Noble Truths)

There are similar teachings in many other religions. For instance (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucianism, emphasis added below),

The worldly concern of Confucianism rests upon the belief that human beings are fundamentally good, and teachable, improvable, and perfectible through personal and communal endeavor, especially self-cultivation and self-creation. Confucian thought focuses on the cultivation of virtue in a morally organised world.[13] Some of the basic Confucian ethical concepts and practices include ren, yi, li, and zhi. Ren is the essence of the human being which manifests as compassion. It is the virtue-form of Heaven.[14] Yi is the upholding of righteousness and the moral disposition to do good. Li is a system of ritual norms and propriety that determines how a person should properly act in everyday life in harmony with the law of Heaven. Zhi (智; zhì) is the ability to see what is right and fair, or the converse, in the behaviors exhibited by others. Confucianism holds one in contempt, either passively or actively, for failure to uphold the cardinal moral values of ren and yi.

Traditionally, cultures and countries in the Chinese cultural sphere are strongly influenced by Confucianism, including China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, as well as various territories settled predominantly by Han Chinese people, such as Singapore.

Any self-described religion that does NOT unreservedly support emotional health (AKA love), social harmony, and, in general, The Good, is a fraud and a danger to mankind. Certainly, any religion that advocates human sacrifice or forcible domination or mass-murder of "non-believers" is not a True Religion.

Of course, many groups and social movements that don't claim to be religions (e.g., Communism) are also dangers to mankind.

Likewise, any non-religious group that supports emotional health (AKA love), social harmony, and The Good is a positive element in the world.

Anything from a single person to a two-person friendship, to a family, to a global movement with millions of people can be a force for good.

Q qualifies in spades. Here's hoping that never changes ("Trust, but verify" -- that is a necessary on-going function, not just a saying from Ronald Reagan).

EARTHLY elements vs. OTHER elements

I am deliberating drawing a line between what I call the positive, Earthly elements of a religion and any other elements it may contain, typically including what I will call the supernatural, or rather the specific supernatural schema that members of the religion often consider the main and defining element.

Note that I am not taking a position on the correctness of any of these schemas; it's just that I don't consider them important in terms of fostering the unity of mankind that we need if we are to overcome the Cabal and to set the world right. -- which is exactly what we are trying to do. Without a high level of UNITY the job will never get done.

BEYOND HUMAN COMPREHENSION (and hence not amenable to universal agreement)

I believe ALL the supernatural schemas in the True Religions -- God, the Great Spirit, the various pantheons of gods and spirits, the Tao, etc. -- are attempts to describe a reality beyond human comprehension which can only be grasped partially and metaphorically. Different cultures will have honestly created different schemas and metaphors attempting to describe the same truths, and many of those elements are described symbolically (for example: how long is a "day" in Genesis? Perhaps it is "24 hours" but many believe the term is used as a symbol for much longer periods of time).

EARTHLY CONCERNS MATTER (more than supernatural schemas and creation myths)

Regardless of the schema used for supernatural and world-creation myths, many religions (and other organizations) teach and support emotional health (AKA love), social harmony, and The Good generally -- they foster love for others, as Jesus taught His disciples -- despite differing elements in other areas.

Does it REALLY matter (to the state of the world) whether someone believes one world-creation story or another? Whether their view of the afterlife (or no afterlife) is the same as yours?

Because while most of us might want every person on Earth to have the same religion or paradigm we embrace, that's not going to happen -- nor should it. We aren't social insects, and where universally agreed upon facts are not available, differences in opinion are inevitable. (Even when facts ARE available and agreed upon, interpretation of what those facts MEAN can be all over the map: consider the absolute circus of quantum physics, for example. Multiple universes, or everything just probabilistic unless and until observed? etc.)

https://search.brave.com/search?q=multiple+universe+theories&source=web

https://search.brave.com/search?q=Probabilistic+Universe+Theories&source=web

The particular paradigm or religion someone embraces as a guide to life and an understanding of the world is far less important than whether that paradigm or religion strongly fosters emotional health, clear thinking, honest behavior, and love and respect for the rights of all.

And THAT is the essence of why UNITY is both possible and highly desirable, even aside from it being necessary in our fight to clean the Satanic and other Evil from this world.

FINIS