Who Do You Serve?
Dear Daddy:
You seem like a reasonably intelligent guy. How can you line up with so
many losing groups and positions? You seem to be against just about
everything I am for -- and I am a totally mainstream kind of guy! You come
across as anti-choice, anti-evolution, anti-everything! Do you really think
the majority of the people out here can be so wrong in the ways they feel
about so many things? Do you really think there are religious answers to
many of today's serious societal problems? Secular problems demand secular
answers!
-- Wondering about you.
Dear Wondering:
When I was younger, I didn't think I was "religious," just as you don't
seem to think you are. As I matured, I came to realize that all human beings
are unavoidably and incurably "religious." There are too many questions that
demand answers that are not "scientifically provable" by the world's
standards.
The very word "religious" is so misunderstood. It has been twisted from
its original meaning -- its actual meaning. The Latin religare: to bind
together. This describes much of what is truly "religious." What are your
theories, your stories, your beliefs of what makes sense of the universe?
What are your unifying principles? This is your true religion, boy. You
think it is churches and solemn observances and rituals. These things can be
made into a religion, but they are not what it is all about.
We humans must operate on faith. In what do we put our faith? Things that
appear to work? Things validated by having large numbers of adherents? Your
unproved and unprovable ideas about the nature of man and his soul, and the
origin and purpose (or purposelessness) of the world and the universe --
however cloaked as scientific, and rammed down the throats of millions of
captured kids in a million classrooms. This is pure religion, administered
with religious zeal, seeking mass conversions for political and spiritual
purposes.
Think there is hope in "secular" approaches? What does this oft-used word
even mean? Again, from the Latin root saecularis: temporal (opposed to
eternal). It is not non-religious, as our Supreme court and various public
battlers would have it; rather, it is more correctly a religious explanation
of things that has no view of eternal reality. It allows nothing outside of
itself to hold it accountable, no standards to meet. It is based on the
denial that there even is anything outside of, or beyond itself. This is the
god you serve, to the extent that you deny the True and Living God.
Yep, I am a representative of a tiny, tiny minority of believers,
considering the world's current population. But even when there were only
Twelve standing with the One, Truth was Truth.
Daddy.
Past Issues of 'Dear Daddy'
What is Gunophobia?
Reclaiming Freedom
Loving Correction
Throw Off the Shackles
Death Penalty 'Balance'
Keep Christ in Christmas
Ten Commandment in Schools
The Never-Born and Heaven
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