god the red herring

[jim barlow]

Lets consider the concept of religion before we get to that.
I think it is almost a hard wired something along with folk dance, tradition, theater etc.
The interesting thing about it in our day (and I am talking mainly of the big 3) is not that "religion" is a waning phenomenon only its content is in the process of being rearranged.
The additional problem is that the "new" still has missing parts and there is a lot of custom preferred from the past - eventhough the mental frame surrounding those "teachings" is incomprehensible after about a hundred years never mind 4000.
Now this god thing of the "new". Is there or ain't? Are there human precursor paradigms? Maybe. Conciousness probably in a subquantum solution? Are there transuniversal forces possibly circulating in parallel universal branes in pre-time like gravity? Possibly. Is there some moral force that guides us toward survival? Possibly but it is generated by us thru experience.
Science and religion may or may not be deadly enemies but the NEW name for religion seems to be science.

[labelwench]

Affirmation

I accept and absorb all the strength of the earth
to keep my body hard and strong;

I accept and absorb all the energy of the sun
to keep my mind sharp and bright;

I accept and absorb all the life force of the ocean
to cleanse my body and bring me life;

I accept and absorb all the power of the wind
to cleanse my spirit and bring me life;

I accept and absorb all the mystery of the heavens,
for I am a part of the vast unknown.

I believe God to be all these elements,
and the force that unites them;

And from these elements I have come,
and to these elements I shall return;

But the energy that is me will not be lost.

Dr. Peter Jepson-Young
©1987, Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation