My family gathers every Sunday, devout Catholics with hearts full of certainty. They are good people who believe with absolute conviction that Catholicism is the chosen path, the one true way. All others, they think, walk in darkness.

It is an evident lie because there cannot be two chosen ones. The very concept of being "chosen" implies exclusivity. It's "the chosen one," not "the chosen two" or "the chosen many." It's a fundamental logical contradiction. Because when multiple groups each claim to be exclusively chosen, they create an impossible scenario, like trying to have multiple "only children."

Catholics and Muslims both claim to be divinely chosen. Either one must be wrong (in which case, how can we determine which?), or both must be wrong. The argument collapses under its own weight.

Why? Because there are no chosen people. The very concept of divine favoritism contradicts the nature of universal love. Every single living person is a child of God, or if you prefer, a manifestation of the divine, a spark of the universal consciousness. Each deserves the same love, care, and abundance as everyone else. No one is superior to anyone; everyone is equal in their essential nature.

The same applies to animals and all sentient beings on Earth. All are, so to speak, children of God, all manifestations of the great principle of life, The Absolute.

Yogi Ramacharaka teaches that, "all life is One. The apparent separateness is but illusion... He who sees the One Life in all beings, to him the vision of separation disappears."

So, from the Yogi's standpoint, and indeed from the perspective of any true seeker of wisdom, there are no chosen races, no exclusive religions. When I watch my Catholic family gather each Sunday, certain in their exclusive truth, I'm reminded that this same scene plays out in mosques, temples, and churches across the world. Each group is equally convinced, equally certain, equally human.

What we're all really witnessing is the One Life expressing itself through countless forms. The notion of superiority, whether religious, racial, or cultural, is logically absurd. Because when we truly see, as Yogi Ramacharaka teaches, that 'all life is One,' the illusion of separateness dissolves, and with it, the desperate need to be 'chosen' at all.