Body and spirit; creation and evolution; circumstance and imagination are all intricately woven into a single fabric that is both particle and energy at one and the same time. One cannot exist without the other.
Divine formula:
1. God Creates Big Bang and initiates Evolution
2. Evolution creates human Circumstance.
3. Circumspection excites God.
Ergo: Evolution is the New Age Religion.
Friday, October 05, 2007
Sunday, September 30, 2007
ADAM - Evolution Vs Creation
A Brief History of the Argument
Before Charles Darwin published, The Origins of the Species no scientific argument existed that could explain the unique nature of mankind’s position in Nature. Although Galileo and Newton had greatly under-mined many of the Holy Scripture’s sacred tenets on the origins of the Universe, and a subsequent lively revolution in scientific thought pervaded the intellectual atmosphere of succeeding centuries - the pivotal miracle of mankind’s origins, as explained in the Book of Genesis, remained organized religion’s ace in the hole.
The Old Testament’s claim in the Book of Genesis, of man’s special relationship with God kept the vast flocks of the faithful congregated inside the cathedrals singing hymns in praise of the Lord, with their heads bowed in reverence before the spiritual authority of their appointed ministers. Nobody dreamed or even wanted to dream that our ancestors could be apes.
Charles Darwin, with over-whelming evidence to support evolution was loath to publish his thesis and further undermine the established order. The ancient Belief in Divine appointment ensured that organized religion’s collection plates remained piled with gold and silver - while the irreverent scientists were relegated to secondary roles in their dingy under-funded laboratories.
Darwin sensed that the publication of The Origins of the Species would end almost two thousand years of religious guidance; alter the balance of power;transfer the flow of money away from the Church; and place the future direction of human behavior, as well as the fate of the planet we lived on, squarely in the hands of science.
In that revolutionary climate, with Marx’s recently published Communist Manifesto loudly proclaiming that religion was an opiate that numbed the minds of the masses of workers, keeping them bowed before their Lords and masters believing that the birth rite of royalty was by Divine appointment, Darwin knew that the evidence he had painstakingly collected in the tiny Galapagos islands would inevitably erase the last and most important tenet in religious doctrine and help remove the millions of worshippers from its pews. The ammunition stored inside his book provided the final proof the revolutionaries needed to end the religious domination of human thought.
The thought that he would be the man chosen to make the masses lose their special connection with God and King, held his hand. Unwilling to face that reality, Darwin wanted to delay publishing his findings until after his death. It was the zoological researches of Wallace, who had independently arrived at the same evolutionary conclusions that forced the publication of The Origins of the Specie. Over the past century and a half since publication, the disarray Darwin’s theory of evolution has created among all cultures that had based their faith on Old Testament scriptures has never abated.
There can be no question that the Theory of Evolution has been a watershed in mass psychology . Scientific insistence on empirical evidence has almost completely negated any and all subjective claims to a mystical relationship with God. The religious testimony of literally thousands of saints and martyrs are, at best, relegated onto a dusty backroom shelf, labelled: Self Delusion.
Scientific indoctrination in our school systems has focused the mass attention on the mechanics of a Universe that runs according to the laws of physics, with no God at the controls. There is no scientific appreciation of the impact that generations of analytical emphasis has had on the intuitive half of the human psyche, which strives to transcend the finite. As a result, the on-going evolution of our collective consciousness is now almost a hundred and eighty degrees in apposition to what it was formerly.
Before 1860 the power of the Church almost totally dictated the politics of government, economic development and human behavior in general. Any man, no matter his private thoughts, who did not religiously attended church service on Sunday, had no chance of ever being elected to any government office or find a seat on the board of any public company. Since then, decade by decade, as the masses have become educated in scientific method, that power has waned. Today the once vast cultural significance and authoritative theological arguments of Religion, which had reigned supreme for almost two millennia over the minds of men, can be challenged by any school-boy.
Though the biblical belief in Creation is now barred from the school classroom, influential sects of religious fundamentalists are still holding out. And like the festering thorn of the Zealots holding out against the might of Rome in the fortress of Masada, the legions of intellectual scientists today are obligated to clean them out.
The dissention between Creationists and Evolutionists creates significant educational, political and economic problems that seriously hamper the kind of healthy holistic development that could take place if the entire nation worked together with the kind of will that can only come if all of us were of the same mind and heart.
As it is, increasing millions of Christian parents have removed their children from government classrooms and are indoctrinating their kids into a separatist mind-set at home. If one factors in the cost of all the wars and persecutions over all the centuries that man has fought in order to instill a unity of modern thought, this rift, (one can almost say a holy war of words) right at the level of childhood education, of who man is and what our purpose on this planet is, is a disturbing trend. If it is allowed to grow wider it can only lead to serious future consequences. With exponential population pressures impacting on an already stressed-out global environment, we need to take steps forward into the 21st Century. We cannot afford steps backwards into the 19th.
For those parents who are truly concerned, it is obvious that we all need a unified understanding of the origins and evolution of human consciousness and try to put an end to the impact our seemingly endless family arguments are having on our home planet,
Nobody as yet can prove or disprove, in scientific terms, that God does or does not exist.
That is the only truly indisputable fact in this war of words. In the meantime, with the jury still out, It might save a lot of wasted emotional turmoil if, instead of trying to batter down the walls of Masada and heap the religious zealots with ridicule and invective, a more constructive tone is politely enforced at every public and private debate on the subject. At the very least it would give us a less contentious platform for engaging in the kind of serious thought that might bridge the rift.
This blog will try to address the 150 year old debate in more holistic terms than the way it has been conducted to date. The arument herin has already been raging on a phylosophical forum for several moths. Each day I will post secions of the arguement and its responses for anybody reading this to jump in and add their comments.
It comes without resorting to religious dogma or literal interpretations of the Bible.
It is purely and simply a debate between physicists and meta-physicists regarding the anomalies that divide the analytical and intuitive aspects of the human psyche. The intention is to try and find a reasonable formula that can unite matter with spirit.
The questions are basic:
Did consciousness precede creation?
Or the reverse.?
The answers are more complex.
No conclusive victory is claimed over either side. But it is hoped that all who read this blog come away from it a little better informed and a little more concerned about helping all of us to come to a degree of consensus that could make the world a better place for ourselves and the coming generations.
The Avatar I go by on the forum is MagnetMan.
Any comments on the above?
Before Charles Darwin published, The Origins of the Species no scientific argument existed that could explain the unique nature of mankind’s position in Nature. Although Galileo and Newton had greatly under-mined many of the Holy Scripture’s sacred tenets on the origins of the Universe, and a subsequent lively revolution in scientific thought pervaded the intellectual atmosphere of succeeding centuries - the pivotal miracle of mankind’s origins, as explained in the Book of Genesis, remained organized religion’s ace in the hole.
The Old Testament’s claim in the Book of Genesis, of man’s special relationship with God kept the vast flocks of the faithful congregated inside the cathedrals singing hymns in praise of the Lord, with their heads bowed in reverence before the spiritual authority of their appointed ministers. Nobody dreamed or even wanted to dream that our ancestors could be apes.
Charles Darwin, with over-whelming evidence to support evolution was loath to publish his thesis and further undermine the established order. The ancient Belief in Divine appointment ensured that organized religion’s collection plates remained piled with gold and silver - while the irreverent scientists were relegated to secondary roles in their dingy under-funded laboratories.
Darwin sensed that the publication of The Origins of the Species would end almost two thousand years of religious guidance; alter the balance of power;transfer the flow of money away from the Church; and place the future direction of human behavior, as well as the fate of the planet we lived on, squarely in the hands of science.
In that revolutionary climate, with Marx’s recently published Communist Manifesto loudly proclaiming that religion was an opiate that numbed the minds of the masses of workers, keeping them bowed before their Lords and masters believing that the birth rite of royalty was by Divine appointment, Darwin knew that the evidence he had painstakingly collected in the tiny Galapagos islands would inevitably erase the last and most important tenet in religious doctrine and help remove the millions of worshippers from its pews. The ammunition stored inside his book provided the final proof the revolutionaries needed to end the religious domination of human thought.
The thought that he would be the man chosen to make the masses lose their special connection with God and King, held his hand. Unwilling to face that reality, Darwin wanted to delay publishing his findings until after his death. It was the zoological researches of Wallace, who had independently arrived at the same evolutionary conclusions that forced the publication of The Origins of the Specie. Over the past century and a half since publication, the disarray Darwin’s theory of evolution has created among all cultures that had based their faith on Old Testament scriptures has never abated.
There can be no question that the Theory of Evolution has been a watershed in mass psychology . Scientific insistence on empirical evidence has almost completely negated any and all subjective claims to a mystical relationship with God. The religious testimony of literally thousands of saints and martyrs are, at best, relegated onto a dusty backroom shelf, labelled: Self Delusion.
Scientific indoctrination in our school systems has focused the mass attention on the mechanics of a Universe that runs according to the laws of physics, with no God at the controls. There is no scientific appreciation of the impact that generations of analytical emphasis has had on the intuitive half of the human psyche, which strives to transcend the finite. As a result, the on-going evolution of our collective consciousness is now almost a hundred and eighty degrees in apposition to what it was formerly.
Before 1860 the power of the Church almost totally dictated the politics of government, economic development and human behavior in general. Any man, no matter his private thoughts, who did not religiously attended church service on Sunday, had no chance of ever being elected to any government office or find a seat on the board of any public company. Since then, decade by decade, as the masses have become educated in scientific method, that power has waned. Today the once vast cultural significance and authoritative theological arguments of Religion, which had reigned supreme for almost two millennia over the minds of men, can be challenged by any school-boy.
Though the biblical belief in Creation is now barred from the school classroom, influential sects of religious fundamentalists are still holding out. And like the festering thorn of the Zealots holding out against the might of Rome in the fortress of Masada, the legions of intellectual scientists today are obligated to clean them out.
The dissention between Creationists and Evolutionists creates significant educational, political and economic problems that seriously hamper the kind of healthy holistic development that could take place if the entire nation worked together with the kind of will that can only come if all of us were of the same mind and heart.
As it is, increasing millions of Christian parents have removed their children from government classrooms and are indoctrinating their kids into a separatist mind-set at home. If one factors in the cost of all the wars and persecutions over all the centuries that man has fought in order to instill a unity of modern thought, this rift, (one can almost say a holy war of words) right at the level of childhood education, of who man is and what our purpose on this planet is, is a disturbing trend. If it is allowed to grow wider it can only lead to serious future consequences. With exponential population pressures impacting on an already stressed-out global environment, we need to take steps forward into the 21st Century. We cannot afford steps backwards into the 19th.
For those parents who are truly concerned, it is obvious that we all need a unified understanding of the origins and evolution of human consciousness and try to put an end to the impact our seemingly endless family arguments are having on our home planet,
Nobody as yet can prove or disprove, in scientific terms, that God does or does not exist.
That is the only truly indisputable fact in this war of words. In the meantime, with the jury still out, It might save a lot of wasted emotional turmoil if, instead of trying to batter down the walls of Masada and heap the religious zealots with ridicule and invective, a more constructive tone is politely enforced at every public and private debate on the subject. At the very least it would give us a less contentious platform for engaging in the kind of serious thought that might bridge the rift.
This blog will try to address the 150 year old debate in more holistic terms than the way it has been conducted to date. The arument herin has already been raging on a phylosophical forum for several moths. Each day I will post secions of the arguement and its responses for anybody reading this to jump in and add their comments.
It comes without resorting to religious dogma or literal interpretations of the Bible.
It is purely and simply a debate between physicists and meta-physicists regarding the anomalies that divide the analytical and intuitive aspects of the human psyche. The intention is to try and find a reasonable formula that can unite matter with spirit.
The questions are basic:
Did consciousness precede creation?
Or the reverse.?
The answers are more complex.
No conclusive victory is claimed over either side. But it is hoped that all who read this blog come away from it a little better informed and a little more concerned about helping all of us to come to a degree of consensus that could make the world a better place for ourselves and the coming generations.
The Avatar I go by on the forum is MagnetMan.
Any comments on the above?
Thursday, November 23, 2006
THE GUNFIGHT AT DARFUR
I happened to tune into CNN the other night and caught Mia Farrow’s urgent plea for somebody to do something right away to stop the genocide in Darfur. She had just returned from her fourth visit to the area. The killing there has been going on for three years and has now spilled over into Eastern Chad. She had no words to describe the horror she had been exposed to after leaving yet again the artificial comfort and security of her own home and life, The shock of being out on the front lines of the real world, which the majority of mankind has to deal with, trying to let desperate mothers with starving babies and dazed men with gauged out eyes and hands severed, know that at least somebody in the global community cared, showed in her face and eyes. Behind the quiet desperation in her voice I sensed a note of hopeless frustration. She knew, like all of us knew, that with the UN and USA tied up in the tangle of domestic and international political manipulations, nothing of significance would be done.
As these realities impacted on my mind, something snapped inside and brought me out of in insidious hypnotic trance.
Her sincerity, as a woman, as sister and as a mother, appealing directly to me as a man, a brother and a father myself, telling me that other men, bad men, cruel men, were ruthlessly murdering innocent women and children, and inferring what was I going to do about it, cut directly through the artificial reality that I had surrendered my manhood to. I was faced by my own lethargy and reluctance to act personally to such an extreme challenge. My reality was fixed to my wallet and my decisions left to the whim of other men – useless do-nothing men, their own manhood caught up in the artificial power of numbers printed on notes and their civic ambitions twisted in the spin of redundant political ideologies that were revealing an increasing inability to deal with the exponential pressures that our burgeoning populations are currently exerting on the global community.
So, caught in this new sense of reality, with at least one eye now open, I am making the following proposal to millions of other men caught in the same trance: I propose the formation of a privately funded mercenary commando force, of company strength if possible, well armed, equipped with modern communication, and night-fighting capabilities, all well trained in bush warfare and properly supported, to go into Darfur and Eastern Chad and the Congo and start to put things right on the Mother Continent, by giving those roving gangs of thugs a taste of their own medicine.
I have some idea of what I am proposing. Born and raised in Africa, I have traveled much of the continent and spent the past forty years studying and seeking solutions to Her problems. I believe that a well-run mercenary mission designed specifically as a humanitarian relief operation, with long-term goals of repatriation in mind, is not only eminently doable – but desperately needed – and will be internationally applauded by every man and woman who has some gumption still left in them. Such private action stands a good chance of triggering a more positive global response to Africa and the 3rd World in general..
Any billionaire with humanitarian instincts, anxious to prove that privately-run enterprises can out-do government in any sphere of influence, and who might be interested in bankrolling this mission, better still even taking part in it, please contact me at: globalstats@hotmail.com
As these realities impacted on my mind, something snapped inside and brought me out of in insidious hypnotic trance.
Her sincerity, as a woman, as sister and as a mother, appealing directly to me as a man, a brother and a father myself, telling me that other men, bad men, cruel men, were ruthlessly murdering innocent women and children, and inferring what was I going to do about it, cut directly through the artificial reality that I had surrendered my manhood to. I was faced by my own lethargy and reluctance to act personally to such an extreme challenge. My reality was fixed to my wallet and my decisions left to the whim of other men – useless do-nothing men, their own manhood caught up in the artificial power of numbers printed on notes and their civic ambitions twisted in the spin of redundant political ideologies that were revealing an increasing inability to deal with the exponential pressures that our burgeoning populations are currently exerting on the global community.
So, caught in this new sense of reality, with at least one eye now open, I am making the following proposal to millions of other men caught in the same trance: I propose the formation of a privately funded mercenary commando force, of company strength if possible, well armed, equipped with modern communication, and night-fighting capabilities, all well trained in bush warfare and properly supported, to go into Darfur and Eastern Chad and the Congo and start to put things right on the Mother Continent, by giving those roving gangs of thugs a taste of their own medicine.
I have some idea of what I am proposing. Born and raised in Africa, I have traveled much of the continent and spent the past forty years studying and seeking solutions to Her problems. I believe that a well-run mercenary mission designed specifically as a humanitarian relief operation, with long-term goals of repatriation in mind, is not only eminently doable – but desperately needed – and will be internationally applauded by every man and woman who has some gumption still left in them. Such private action stands a good chance of triggering a more positive global response to Africa and the 3rd World in general..
Any billionaire with humanitarian instincts, anxious to prove that privately-run enterprises can out-do government in any sphere of influence, and who might be interested in bankrolling this mission, better still even taking part in it, please contact me at: globalstats@hotmail.com
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Friday, October 27, 2006
The Relationship between Science and Reliogion
Shaman47 wrote:
I have no problems with the concept of mutual respect between faith/hope and science. However I do feel that there is a huge differenece between faith/hope in religion and faith/hope without religion. We do not need religion as it exists today, and faith/hope can and will exist without it when humanity is ready to rid itself of the perils of religion.
MagnetMan wrote:
I have use the word religion in general terms. Religiously practiced metaphysical (spiritual) observances is more precisely what is meant - with the rider that every person is free to decide who and what form God/Creator takes, and how to pay private respects.
For instance: If one worships Reason - then one should religiously (regularly and devoutly) pay homage to the underlying metaphysical force that gave rise to reason. Such humble observances serves to keep the psyche focused on the endless need for learning and saves the ego from prematurely arriving at the delusions of all manner of self-importance.
I agree that Scriptural dogma, especially Christian New Testament dogma, which asserts Jesus is God, is primitive and dangerously divisive and has no place in the modern world. Jesus' message of love for neighbor and non-retaliation for trespass is for me socially brilliant and religiously profound. As is the messages of all the other great socio/theologians.
My argument is that science deals with physics and has no knowledge of metaphysics and therefore has no business even mentioning it, let alone knocking it. Even though one may not agree with the vast majority of the word who have faith in spirit, one should at the very least respect their view.
Finally science itself is an outgrowth of scripture. The spread of scripture taught mankind to read and write. And it had to be spread among hostile heathens by learned ministers who had to brave all kinds of hardships that only Faith alone could have sustained in their desire to teach.
Scripture first served to break the superstitious hold of oral-based totemic worship and unit warring clans into a national consciousness, with all of them re-focused on a Common Origin.
The content of the Scriptures aside, the grammatical structures of literature stimulated our intellect - and the metaphors and parables in scripture that the ancients needed to explain the workings of the universe to inquisitive children, excited our maturing curiosity to search in an educated manner for more determinant answers. Mix that intellectual awakening of the literate mind with the practical engineering technologies that we had already developed during the hunting and gathering and agricultural eras - and we see how Scripture was instrumental in moving man away from purely oral-based metaphorical instruction into new eras of industrial and scientific consciousness.
For that evolutionary reason alone, science should be grateful to religion - for all the added complexities it brought with it..
I have no problems with the concept of mutual respect between faith/hope and science. However I do feel that there is a huge differenece between faith/hope in religion and faith/hope without religion. We do not need religion as it exists today, and faith/hope can and will exist without it when humanity is ready to rid itself of the perils of religion.
MagnetMan wrote:
I have use the word religion in general terms. Religiously practiced metaphysical (spiritual) observances is more precisely what is meant - with the rider that every person is free to decide who and what form God/Creator takes, and how to pay private respects.
For instance: If one worships Reason - then one should religiously (regularly and devoutly) pay homage to the underlying metaphysical force that gave rise to reason. Such humble observances serves to keep the psyche focused on the endless need for learning and saves the ego from prematurely arriving at the delusions of all manner of self-importance.
I agree that Scriptural dogma, especially Christian New Testament dogma, which asserts Jesus is God, is primitive and dangerously divisive and has no place in the modern world. Jesus' message of love for neighbor and non-retaliation for trespass is for me socially brilliant and religiously profound. As is the messages of all the other great socio/theologians.
My argument is that science deals with physics and has no knowledge of metaphysics and therefore has no business even mentioning it, let alone knocking it. Even though one may not agree with the vast majority of the word who have faith in spirit, one should at the very least respect their view.
Finally science itself is an outgrowth of scripture. The spread of scripture taught mankind to read and write. And it had to be spread among hostile heathens by learned ministers who had to brave all kinds of hardships that only Faith alone could have sustained in their desire to teach.
Scripture first served to break the superstitious hold of oral-based totemic worship and unit warring clans into a national consciousness, with all of them re-focused on a Common Origin.
The content of the Scriptures aside, the grammatical structures of literature stimulated our intellect - and the metaphors and parables in scripture that the ancients needed to explain the workings of the universe to inquisitive children, excited our maturing curiosity to search in an educated manner for more determinant answers. Mix that intellectual awakening of the literate mind with the practical engineering technologies that we had already developed during the hunting and gathering and agricultural eras - and we see how Scripture was instrumental in moving man away from purely oral-based metaphorical instruction into new eras of industrial and scientific consciousness.
For that evolutionary reason alone, science should be grateful to religion - for all the added complexities it brought with it..
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
The Chicken-bone Mentality
After publishing my book on Psyche-Genetics I have, for the past several months been posting novel arguments taken from the book, on a number of international philosophy forums.
Each argument has challenged conventional wisdom on a wide variety of social and spiritual issues. As can be expected, I have been met with fierce resistance and an almost complete refusal to entertain any new idea that has been presented.
What has confounded me is that most of my arguments, which appeal to my own common sense do not seem to do so with others. Which leaves me in the unhappy position of thinking that either I have lost touch with reality, or the world around me has.
Let me give you an example (not from my book) of the way I think and how and why it contradicts convention beliefs - just to see if I am not a one-eyed man in the kingdom of the blind.
I came to America as the guest if a friend. During a barbecue at their house, I tried to feed their pet poodle with a chicken bone. At least four people rushed to wrestle it away from the dog and I was severely reprimanded.
Now everybody knows that any dog can choke on a chicken bone, but if he does, he is a greedy idiot and needs to be reminded of that fact. The more basic fact is that dogs have been eating birds for millions of years and are past masters at crunching and swallowing any kind of bone you care to name, including fish. Nature has endowed them with a powerful jaw with three times the crushing power of apes in order to do just that. They also have brains - and they know all about choking on a bone splinter and how foolish that is if it happens.
So today, throughout the length and breadth of America, tens of millions of chicken bones get thrown in the trash daily, and one of the most delectable meals a dog can sink his teeth into, sadly goes to waste.
I am still hopeful that at least one brave American will step up to the plate and rely on his own common sense to defy national convention, and feed his dog a tasty chicken bone.
Each argument has challenged conventional wisdom on a wide variety of social and spiritual issues. As can be expected, I have been met with fierce resistance and an almost complete refusal to entertain any new idea that has been presented.
What has confounded me is that most of my arguments, which appeal to my own common sense do not seem to do so with others. Which leaves me in the unhappy position of thinking that either I have lost touch with reality, or the world around me has.
Let me give you an example (not from my book) of the way I think and how and why it contradicts convention beliefs - just to see if I am not a one-eyed man in the kingdom of the blind.
I came to America as the guest if a friend. During a barbecue at their house, I tried to feed their pet poodle with a chicken bone. At least four people rushed to wrestle it away from the dog and I was severely reprimanded.
Now everybody knows that any dog can choke on a chicken bone, but if he does, he is a greedy idiot and needs to be reminded of that fact. The more basic fact is that dogs have been eating birds for millions of years and are past masters at crunching and swallowing any kind of bone you care to name, including fish. Nature has endowed them with a powerful jaw with three times the crushing power of apes in order to do just that. They also have brains - and they know all about choking on a bone splinter and how foolish that is if it happens.
So today, throughout the length and breadth of America, tens of millions of chicken bones get thrown in the trash daily, and one of the most delectable meals a dog can sink his teeth into, sadly goes to waste.
I am still hopeful that at least one brave American will step up to the plate and rely on his own common sense to defy national convention, and feed his dog a tasty chicken bone.
Saturday, October 21, 2006
FAITH, HOPE and STATE
There was a time in another Age when all men believed in the Divine Design of an Almighty God. They believed in the Divine appointment of their religious leaders and in the blessed anointment of their kings. The had both good rulers and bad rulers and accepted the weakness of individuals. But they all held true to the general principle that men proposed and God disposed and that He controlled human destiny.
Ten basic commandments laid out the rules for the good life that led to God's grace, and by and large they tried to be obedient to them. Faith, Hope and Charity were the golden principles that ensured a common consensus of social and spiritual ethics.
It was reasonably easy in that Age to evoke the collective will; to get them to make sacrifices and contribute to the general good; to build mighty defences and to die in war. They were conscientious craftsmen and worked together on communal projects without the thought of individual profit. They built mighty pyramids and soaring cathedrals and left behind for posterity unparalleled works of art and architecture.
With the rise of science, pseudo-intellectualism claimed the mind of man and shut down the intuitions of his heart. Revolutions were fought and kings deposed. Republics were formed and the laws of God and commons sense were replaced by convoluted constitutions of man which were so full of loopholes, they required endless amendments and new legislation's.
Thus the State separated itself from the Church. Faith and Hope were scoffed at as the crutches of the weak and feeble-minded.
Now, unless the carrot of personal profit is dangled before the eyes of man, no work can get done. No government can rule without argument and divisions of thought. Wars are fought for profit and not defence. Natural resources are mined relentless, the environment is polluted, half the world starves. In this self-determinant Age, where Faith and Hope are no longer idealized, every man, world-wise or not, claims his right to express his own opinion, and a tower of Babel deafens the globe
For those few who still cling to Faith and Hope, their challenge is to see the Divine design that underlies the moment.
Ten basic commandments laid out the rules for the good life that led to God's grace, and by and large they tried to be obedient to them. Faith, Hope and Charity were the golden principles that ensured a common consensus of social and spiritual ethics.
It was reasonably easy in that Age to evoke the collective will; to get them to make sacrifices and contribute to the general good; to build mighty defences and to die in war. They were conscientious craftsmen and worked together on communal projects without the thought of individual profit. They built mighty pyramids and soaring cathedrals and left behind for posterity unparalleled works of art and architecture.
With the rise of science, pseudo-intellectualism claimed the mind of man and shut down the intuitions of his heart. Revolutions were fought and kings deposed. Republics were formed and the laws of God and commons sense were replaced by convoluted constitutions of man which were so full of loopholes, they required endless amendments and new legislation's.
Thus the State separated itself from the Church. Faith and Hope were scoffed at as the crutches of the weak and feeble-minded.
Now, unless the carrot of personal profit is dangled before the eyes of man, no work can get done. No government can rule without argument and divisions of thought. Wars are fought for profit and not defence. Natural resources are mined relentless, the environment is polluted, half the world starves. In this self-determinant Age, where Faith and Hope are no longer idealized, every man, world-wise or not, claims his right to express his own opinion, and a tower of Babel deafens the globe
For those few who still cling to Faith and Hope, their challenge is to see the Divine design that underlies the moment.
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