The Battle for Equality in a Changing World

What if the principles of freedom and equality are slipping through our fingers? Join me, Richard Ravenbrook, as I confront the alarming forces seeking to reshape our society by imposing religious ideologies in public schools. We'll dissect the troubling rollback of fundamental rights and the mounting threat to interracial marriages, urging us all to step up as guardians of liberty. It’s high time we challenge the status quo, recognize the power we possess as engaged citizens, and recommit to the core American ideals that promise equality for everyone.

Have you ever questioned the grip of mainstream religious teachings on your life? In this episode, I urge you to consider the contradictions and moral dilemmas of certain doctrines, particularly the concept of eternal torment. Together, let's embark on a personal spiritual journey, one that rejects external control and instead seeks internal, personal truths. This is a call to reconnect with spiritual roots and embrace diversity, moving past the superficial divisions that often plague organized religion.

There is an urgent cry for unity and understanding across all spiritual communities. I reflect on the transformative power of unity, not just among pagans but across all beliefs threatened by societal pressures. Let us ally in advocating for an educational system that prioritizes practical knowledge and leaves spiritual teachings to the family. By fostering sustainable living and breaking away from materialism, we can create a world where freedom and equality thrive for every individual. Blessed be.

Chapters

• 0:00 The Journey of Leaving Religion
• 9:28 Rejecting Religious Control and Embracing Diversity
• 21:23 Defending Freedom and Equality
• 28:27 Call for Unity in All Religions

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:59

Welcome, welcome everybody. This is Richard Ravenbrook, and this is the journey of leaving religion. What does spirit have for us today? You know, over the last few weeks a lot of good things have happened. You know, a lot of my books are out, a lot of those books are turned into audio books and Kindle books and I urge people to go out and look for those, because the message is useless unless the message is heard or read or received in some way somehow.

Speaker 1: 1:43

But over the last couple weeks, I think we all know what is the head of all peoples, or the top of what we're thinking about and what we're feeling and what we're kind of going through, and it's a touchy subject and it's a subject that is even has me pulled in multiple directions. The Spirit offers warnings of the future, warnings of things that may seem too good to be true are, and that the road that people believe will be the best road for us will be the very road that takes us to the end of our existence as we know it now us to the end of our existence as we know it now. The election is over and all kinds of things are happening I don't want to get into deep politics and who's doing this and who's doing that, because we all know what's going on. But division is what I see going on right now, division among all of us. It's not just among Christians and pagans and people of other religions, but Christians are rising up in a higher level of arrogance and boldness, assuming their place in this country as a. You know, and I have to watch what I say but yet at the same time, I want to say what spirit wants me to say.

Speaker 1: 3:40

You know, and in public schools, religion does not belong. Religion is something that is taught at home. It's taught by the child's elders and by family members and those around them that love them, those around them that love them. It is of no legality or morality for a public school system to indoctrinate anyone's child. You know so many said. You know they're out there just praising their God for well, we're going to get prayer back in school, which was never removed in the first place. We want to get where Christian courses are taught and Bible courses, and we're going to start teaching this.

Speaker 1: 4:39

But what about the people that send their kids to school that aren't christian? Is the indoctrination of their children acceptable in a land that says that there must be separation between church and state. Do we not know that even the christian god, even the Christian God biblically, would not agree with such indoctrination Because it interferes with free will and free choice? When you bombard people, especially children, you know and I'm going to use, you know, we, just absolutely not we, but the people. There's people out there that just honestly, just absolutely could not stand the idea of a drag queen reading a book to the children, even though they weren't saying anything about being drag queens or anything sexual of the sort, they were just reading a book. But we didn't want, or they didn't want, that indoctrination of the children. But yet it's okay if Christians indoctrinate your children.

Speaker 1: 5:54

Now, I know, and I understand that in the Christian belief because I come from the Christian belief, that their belief is that they are the one and only true religion and that no other religion is true, so they don't have to respect or honor such religions. And some religions they believe completely contradict their religion and offend their religion and their way of life. And right now, what we have is an emotional roller coaster of feelings and emotions, because it seems like we're going backwards, doesn't it? It seems like we are degressing, not progressing. Women's rights are threatened, where women no longer have a choice of their own body or what they do in this world. I saw where even interracial marriages were threatened.

Speaker 1: 7:04

You know where have we gone as a country when we think these things are acceptable? The other day I saw where Some group in the KKK was handing out flyers warning people about the mass deportation and this and that what's coming is not a good thing. You know we blame so many politicians and we blame our government on all the situations that we have today, but do you honestly know whose fault it is? It's ours. We allowed it. We allowed the problems to continue for 20 and 30 years and now we have a problem that isn't easily fixed. Because if you're telling me that it's acceptable to deport a child that has known nothing but this country, that has been born here, has been raised here and knows nothing but this country, that it's acceptable to deport them with their grandparents or whatever else because we failed to uphold the law all those years ago, no, it's not acceptable. It's not that child's fault that it is here, it's ours and it's our responsibility to do what is right. It's our responsibility as a whole, for all people in general, because when you start talking about politics, there truly is no left nor right. But you're either an American or you're not, and an American believes in freedom for all people. They believe in inalienable rights that was given to them by their creator, that all men are created equal, that we have a place in this world and that it should not be detoured or hindered by race, color, creed or sexual orientation.

Speaker 1: 9:29

A lot of people right now just want to. You know where they're attacking all these different things. Well, we can't accept this. We can't accept this. We can't accept that, you know, because, for some reason, they have to play God, they have to be God. They preach constantly that God is in control, but they prove daily that they don't believe that themselves. Well, god won't accept this, but they prove daily that they don't believe that themselves. Well, god won't accept this. Okay, well then, let God handle that. Let them live their life and let God handle that. If God is in control, it's not for you.

Speaker 1: 10:24

Even your own scripture says to look in the stick that's in your own eye. When you start looking for something to judge, judge the person in the mirror, not your neighbor, because the only thing that's truly said about your neighbor is to love your neighbor as you would have them Love you and treat you. You know they and I know I'm hesitating and there's pauses, as I feel and I hear spirit Saying so many different things. That's going on right now and it's difficult sometimes To put these things into Words, because I understand that people are doing what they feel is right and that's the problem, because there's so much spiritual ignorance in this country and in this world. That's why we have all these wars, that we allow our children to go to war so they can fight over oil and property, resources and money. It's not over defending our country, our land. It's not about defending our freedom. It's about making bankers richer and corporations wealthier. Where have we gone? There is no honor anymore. Where have we gone, even as a country that said that all men are created equal? Yet daily we find reasons created equal. But yet daily we find reasons. We find reasons to say that someone is not our equal, that they are unacceptable, that their lifestyle is unacceptable.

Speaker 1: 12:16

And I said once you know, if, if your God, if God himself, will not intervene and stop someone from living the life that they choose, who do you think you are? Who do you think that you are to believe that you are of higher authority than your God himself. You are of higher authority than your God himself, that if God himself says that, so be it. That that is their choice. Let them live by their choice. You know, I don't believe in a fiery eternity. I understand that, the words hell, hades and all of these different interpretations, but the eternal torment was added to add fear. It's not real, you know, and it's, and I know there's a whole lot of controversy on that. But I'm going to tell you just straight out hell is not real. It is not a real place. No matter how you've lived, you are not going to go and burn for eternity. That, our creator, no matter how you believe or how you interpret it, what you name it, what God or goddess's name you name it, that is not. It's not what's going to happen, but it's for you and your spiritual journey to know where you're going.

Speaker 1: 14:03

We all come from different places. We all come from different sources. We all come from different understandings of God and goddess, depending on where our roots are. Most of us have accepted a religion of those who enslaved us. We have accepted a religion that destroyed or murdered our ancestors, and it's time that we get back to our roots and stop following a religion that was never yours. They're going to say that, well, this is the one and only religion. Well, the very evidence of so many different religions in so many different countries and continents shows that's absolutely untrue.

Speaker 1: 15:04

If God is in control, even in our own country, christianity is divided into hundreds of denominations, where the leaders of the church and the authoritarians within the religion of Christianity can't decide for themselves what that one truth is. So they split up in all kinds of different denominations, all trying to label themselves as the same but teaching something slightly different. And spirit doesn't teach different doctrines and different teachings to the same people, different spirits. Do we got to understand that this spiritual walk, this journey, if you're not looking inward, if you're not listening to spirit, if you haven't been taught to truly listen, and christianity is one that tells you not to look within, to look outwardly, do, do they not? When your Jesus even said that the kingdom of God is within you? When he was talking to the Pharisees, you know he was trying to tell them when they were talking about all these laws and these rules and all the things that they were trying to say and he was trying to say but doesn't your own scripture say that the kingdom of heaven is within you? Do you not understand that? Why are you looking to the sky? Why are you looking all over the place, when the power of the spirit is within you?

Speaker 1: 16:55

Everything you need Kind of like the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz Everything you need you already had. It was already within you the Tin man, everything was already within you. You didn't need to be given it. All you had to do was know where to find it, and then you had to be able to trust what you found. You had to be taught how to listen and how to discern and how to absorb the teachings of spirit and how spirit teaches, Because your own scripture says that you need no man to teach you, for spirit will teach you all things.

Speaker 1: 17:49

For those that want to tell you that, well, you have to go to church if you're going to be a Christian no, and I know that I speak a lot of scripture and I speak a lot, and again and again I remind people. I do this because I'm speaking to the christians that are trying to deconstruct, trying to leave mainstream religion, and they have a hard time. So I'm teaching them, educating them on how to apply the things that are within the book that they believe in and to understand why it's acceptable to leave mainstream religion and to find their roots once again, to truly find out who this Jesus that you say truly is, because the church doesn't teach it. Church doesn't teach that he went to egypt and to various different places to learn various different spiritual paths, various different spiritual paths. I'm not going to teach that because it gets out of their realm of control.

Speaker 1: 19:02

But the true man, yeshua, was a man of magic and power. You know your people, the Christians. They argued for weeks, months, months, some of them even years on the divinity of the man they call Jesus. He was a powerful man. He was a man that studied and learned many different practices. A lot of these practices I have put in the Ravenbrook tradition, you know, in the book the Sorcerer's Path. That book's about my life.

Speaker 1: 19:45

I went by the name Elijah at one time and the book is about Elijah's walk from minister to mage, going from a Christian minister to mage, going from a Christian minister to a man of magic, and understanding that what they were doing was the right thing. It's spiritually truth thing, because sometimes, when you've been so brainwashed in religion that they try to guilt, trip you and they try to do all these different things to convince you that what you're doing is wrong and what you're doing is not right, but you keep moving forward, you keep pushing forward, you keep knowing that your roots, your roots, your name, where you come from, the gods that your ancestors knew as gods. It's time to go back to our roots and we can't do that in a country that's going to determine that we're all going to learn Christianity in schools and everywhere else, that we're going to put up 10 commandments all over the place and we're gonna we're gonna start pushing one religion. That cannot be accepted, nor will it be accepted.

Speaker 1: 21:23

I don't condone violence unless it's in a manner of protection, but we cannot allow such things to happen. We cannot allow the indoctrination of our children. We cannot allow this country to go backwards. We cannot allow our women, our wives and the ladies of this country to be treated lesser than what any man is. May the women in this country have choice. May they have the authority over their own bodies and their own minds, just like any man does. Let people be who they are. Let people be who they are, let them walk whatever religion they choose, or no religion at all. Let them marry who they love, whoever, whoever and whatever they are.

Speaker 1: 22:29

You know when I say that and it's like because it doesn't matter to us, it shouldn't. It doesn't matter if it's an interracial couple or if it's a same-sex couple. You know why it doesn't matter? Because Because it doesn't affect your life. It doesn't affect your choices, and if you're afraid that it might affect your children's choices, then you doubt your own child's ability to choose.

Speaker 1: 23:00

We have to trust our children with enough knowledge and wisdom to judge for themselves what it is that they want. We guide them, we protect them, we keep them from doing stupid things. Sometimes that's what parents do, but we also have to be willing to give some grace into the choices that they have. We have to be able to trust, we have to be able to listen to them and hear what it is that they want. You know, as parents, a lot of times we want our children to be just like us or we want a certain path for them, but they may not want that path. They may even want a path that offends us or goes against what we believe, but they have that right to make that choice.

Speaker 1: 23:54

But right now this country is trying to take away all of our choices, trying to dictate what we're going to believe and what we're going to do and how we're going to live and the laws that are laid. It's unacceptable. No government should ever have the right to tell man, woman or child what they can or cannot do For each man and each woman and each child. Their life is their life, their life To choose for themselves where they go, what they do, what they believe. This country was based upon freedom, people Liberty, free expression, free speech, liberty, free expression, free speech.

Speaker 1: 24:51

When we begin to start eliminating those things because we think that it's the right thing, understand that your own scripture says that, that we have to be careful because what seems right to us is definitely not right to God it means that we don't understand the ramifications if I can spit that word out of what we do. We don't understand the domino effect of what we do sometimes. We don't understand that just because we knock that one domino effect of what we do sometimes, we don't understand that just because we knock that one domino over, we don't understand that it's going to knock down another 6,000 dominoes or whatever how many is out there and hurt people that we can't even see or people we don't even know. But what we do is we just? We focus on us. We focus on our families. Is we just focus on us? We focus on our families.

Speaker 1: 25:50

If somebody's doing something that we don't believe in, then have enough spiritual maturity to let it not offend you. You know, it's different when people begin to take their belief and use it to hurt people. But isn't that what the church is doing right now? Because if they interfere with your religion, with your free will, are they not hurting you? If they begin to do things that Bring your religion down In character, are they not hurting you, hurting your religion, hurting your family, hurting, putting you in a dark light where it has taken hundreds of years To rise, where we are now? Because right now is the time of enlightenment.

Speaker 1: 26:51

And that's why they're afraid, because people are beginning to wake up and understand that mainstream religion is flawed, it's corrupt and it leads to nowhere but slavery and ignorance. But they're afraid of awakening people. They want to call them woke. Maybe woke's not such a bad word anymore. Maybe that's a word that we can be proud of, because I'd rather be woke than dead asleep, ignorant in this world, ignor, ignorant of what is truly going on in this world, when a man would choose to laugh. When they talk about deporting children along with their older family members, as I heard when they were talking about it on the news, they were saying well, what do we do about the children that have been here all their life? Well, we can deport them with the rest of them. And people laughed. How heartless, how you know, and it just grips spirit and just that you can treat another human being, especially a child, in that manner. Protect these people, protect the children, save the children.

Speaker 1: 28:27

If you take anything from this podcast today, it's remember unity. Remember that we can't do this without unity. We can't grow in enlightenment, we can't grow in knowledge and wisdom without unity. You'll even notice that two or three of my books speak about unity and how Spirit urged me to how to do these things and how to progress with these things. Spirit's been doing a lot of work the last six months to a year, not just in these podcasts, but in books and in writings and articles.

Speaker 1: 29:07

I urge you to look at these things and help me with this movement of unity, where it's not just for pagans, but it's for all people.

Speaker 1: 29:23

Yes, it is for pagan protection, it is so we don't go backwards in time, but it's also for the Hindu, the Buddhist, even the Muslim, all religions that live and breathe in this country, that their lives and their religions are threatened at this very time. We can't go down this road, guys. We have to come together and say no, we will not support one religion over another. You will either teach all religions or you will teach no religion, and the most intelligent choice would be to leave religion to the parents and leave the public school system to basic education. Maybe we ought to get back to really educating our kids with real things instead of the ignorance that we've done the last 10 years or so. Maybe we can get back into teaching people how to work with their hands, how to grow food, how to feed themselves, how to hunt fish, whatever else, teaching people how to live off the land rather than just be consumers. Be blessed everybody. Blessed be. This is Richard Ravenbrook, everyone. Have a blessed evening, me.