Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 5, sect. 1713

1713. But being biased and favouring one truth at the expense of another amounts to injustice. One paints one's favourite theories in beautiful, rosy colours, while painting everything and everyone one does not like in black and dark colours. And thus the divine, eternal cosmic event known as the "creation of Eve" is handed down to posterity by people who have painted it black, depicted it as something horrific and turned it into a devilish act far remote from the purpose and will of the Godhead. And, to this very day, it is this bias that is the basis for the ministry of the Christian church. It still serves death, punishment and divine wrath on all sinners who do not repent with all their heart and ask for "mercy" and the "forgiveness of sins" through the "blood of Jesus". And this in turn gives rise to a classification of people, a division into the favoured and the despised, who are termed the "saved" and the "damned" respectively. While the "saved" end up with God in heaven in rapture and joy, the "damned" end up in the fires of hell where there is eternal torment, weeping and the gnashing of teeth. But is not this favouring of some beings and repulsion of other beings, this classification of one's neighbour, intrinsically ungodly? Indeed, it is this ungodliness, this hateful or intolerant attitude to certain principles of life and the overrating and worship of other principles of the same life that – despite the fact that all of these principles are equally divine and expressive of the divine will – have turned the Christian states into the world's most ingenious warriors and practitioners of the killing, animal principle. To an overwhelming extent they have turned their role model, the Godhead, into a mighty being of war who wrathfully punishes and takes revenge on everything that is not in His favour. A world view based on such an image of God must inevitably turn all its followers into imitators of this, in their view, divine way of being. Is not this religious attitude the foundation for the predominant military concept of the "field of honour"? Is it not considered degrading to not want to die on the "field of honour"? What is the "field of honour"? Is it not the same as war on one's opponents, war on beings that think differently? The "field of honour" is thus the field on which one sacrifices one's life in order to annihilate and destroy one's fellow beings. On the "field of honour" it is not a matter of fulfilling the Christian ideal or command about "turning the right cheek when one has been smitten on the left". On the contrary, anyone who does so risks being punished as a "traitor".