Mixed Up Spiritual Path

Often we mix up a one spiritual path that is advanced, with one that is a bit more primitive, and local.  There was this fellow in the Bible who thought he was part of the Moses religion with the one God, Yahweh.  This God did not believe in human sacrifice.  But the local gods, the local religion in which this fellow lived, his name was Jephthah, liked human sacrifice.  So Jephthah made a vow that if Yahweh would give him victory over enemies, Jephthah would sacrifice the first person who came out of his home when he got back there.  Jephthah was victorious, but his only child, a beloved daughter, came out to greet him.  Bad timing on her part.  He sacrificed her.  He had a mixed up religion.  A lot of us do the same.  We say we believe all are created equal.  Our God loves all people.  Then we look for worship places with people who look just like us.  Worship is quite segregated.  We might say we love everyone, but we then follow local custom and act badly toward certain groups of people.  People in recovery programs say they follow the Big Book, but they do so only to the extent in that it is in their comfort zone.  This is not the same as consciously picking and choosing.  We actually think we are following the whole package.  Mixed up religion people or those on mixed up spiritual paths are hard to convince otherwise.