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.