God?
Since antiquity, great religious and secular philosophers alike
have constantly advocated peaceful
unified ideals for Humanity.
One glance at society today makes one wonder
why the idea of universally valuing
and respecting your fellow human being
and working together, has never taken root.
I think I was on Larry King about 4 times.
And he said to me, "Jacque, what do you think of Christianity?"
I said, "It's a wonderful idea."
"When are they putting it into practice?"
.
Being a Christian, in behavior,
is very rare.
People seem to behave in contradictory ways.
They weren't warm or they did not personify the teachings of Christ
or Buddha
or Moses.
None of them seem to personify that kind of teaching.
The Bible is subject to interpretation.
When you read it, you say, "I think Jesus meant this."
"I think Job meant that."
"Oh no, he meant this."
So you have the Lutherans, the Seventh-Day Adventists
the Catholics
and a Church divided is no church at all.
And a Church divided is no church at all.
And those Christians that really believe
in setting up a world which is the brotherhood of Humanity
you have to get them to join The Zeitgeist Movement
to carry out the teachings of all religions.
In order to eliminate most of the problems
that exist today,
we have to declare the Earth
and all its resources
as the common heritage of all the world's people.
Jesus said: "Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven."
And that's the way we see the Resource-Based Economy.
Or The Venus Project.
That you can create all your spiritual aspirations
but make it a reality.
Not going to church, and sing all day long. Do things!
Jesus said, "By their works, ye shall know them."
All they talk about has no meaning at all.
It is time to stop talking about our supposed
humanistic and religious ideals
and actually work to make them happen.
♪ [Attention] I don't. I don't understand ♪
♪ why so much hate ♪
♪ [Attention] between races and religions? ♪
What we're advocating is a method of how to achieve
what all those people who have desire for higher consciousness.
How do you do that? How do you achieve that?
How do you achieve a world without war and crime and bigotry?
Human beings think that they're the greatest creation of nature.
They're spiritual beings.
They put themselves on a pedestal.
And they're the ones that are poisoning the air.
Killing each other, in the name of God.
"Do you believe in my God? No?" Boom.
The Bible says, "Thou shalt not kill."
♪ Hand fits giving so do it ♪
♪ that's what the gospel said to me ♪
♪ Life fits living so let your judgments go ♪
♪ that's how our future should be ♪
It's going to take time for people take on the responsibility
of managing this wonderful gift of nature, the Earth.
Water. All the wonderful things that we have.
And we have to take care of the Earth.
We have to assume responsibility.
Religion doesn't work. It never did.
Religious people kill. They get angry. They're jealous.
They go to church, and they pray.
That isn't what Jesus did. He went around helping people.
He associated with bums, beggars
prostitutes, the down-trodden.
Human beings have lived this way
for millennia upon millennia.
Why haven't they changed?
Why haven't you, who are listening now,
why haven't you changed?
You know if you don't change
what the consequences are?
Fighting, fighting, fighting.
Bringing up more and more armaments to destroy each other.
Now, why don't you, if you are at all serious in this matter,
why don't you ask yourself that question?
Why am I, a human being
who have been through all this, why haven't I changed?
What would be your answer?
Either you're not serious
you want to live a very, very superficial life.
And that superficiality temporarily satisfies you.
Or, you really don't care.
As long as you have immediate pleasures,
immediate satisfactions,
you really don't care.
How can you find out what a religious life is, when you're blind?
A Resource-Based Economy puts into practice
everything the great religious and philosophic teachers
have always talked about, in regard
to humans embracing each other as their own.
And working together in mutual respect as a single human family.
What we need is a true change of consciousness.
Where we understand the interrelationship between all of us.
People ask me, "How long will it take
to make the world a beautiful place?"
It is not up to me, it's up to you.
What you do out there.
If you do nothing, nothing will happen.
The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren
and to do good is my religion. -Thomas Paine