I've seen this sincerity before.
In Rajneeshism, in EST,
in anyplace where people are seeking
as if faith and sincerity
were the only key.
There's beauty there, honesty and compassion
and in their hearts there's the warmth
of being sure and right.
Asian faces, Hindus, Christians, Moslems,
Allah, Jesus, Krishna,
temples, mosques, cathedrals,
songs, tithes, offerings, ... and feelings.
But, can it be so easy?
Can one be right and another wrong?
Can one feel their sincerity is genuine
and, at the same moment, disbelieve another's?
We are all children in this world
so full of half truths and glimpses of God's patterns
and ready to believe we have the whole truth
the moment we find those who will agree.
Ready to reject the others
and feel that God has given US alone the truth
when, in fact, we have stopped far short of the truth
which must embrace us all
as the children of God.
gallagher
21 April 85
— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —