That there exists a universal belief in God does not in itself make the existence of God a reality. The first primitive man who felt a soft breeze caressing his bristled face and inferred there must be a loving goddess blowing kisses does not a spirit make, anymore than a biting, frosty wind through his beard embodies an angry god. Nor does the existence of a spiritual marketplace in which the world’s religions vie for desperate consumers in search of solace suggest the existence of a caring, spiritual CEO. Throughout the ages of man’s shrewd artifices there were gods of sword and plow, anger and love, making no difference in the DNA of humankind left to risky chance subject to the chips of creation falling where they may.
That there exists a universal consciousness in the world is what makes reality, though tentatively mathematical as memory chips, lending a sense of false identity. There is no iron-clad human destiny other than its cropping in this world and on other planets flowing with a helplessly expanding universe. Yes, there exists an intelligence in the real world; that it is divine is a matter of faith’s perceptions irrelevant to a relentless equation solving how we came to be but not the nth power of why.
We are thus recycled to primitive, enduring dissatisfaction of the turmoil of faith.
Copyright © 2006 Richard R. Kennedy All rights reserved. Revised: March 8, 2006.
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