Every
religion is imperfect and different. Some
are mere snapshots of the relationship of God to man, while others may be a
sitcom or a drama of one hour. Another
may be a documentary, a drama series or a late-night gab session. Any religion that claims to have won the religion
game by having all the marbles, has drunk the Jonestown cool aide.
The issue
before every religion is, are we willing to look ourselves in the mirror? And then we must question ourselves, is what
we are doing working? Is getting hostile
in the face of criticism building our understanding of the God man dynamic? Some believe there is no room or need for such
self-inspection in a religion that may have been around for thousands of years. Surely such a religion would have dealt with
all the questions. Well, answers have been
given but the more likely scenario is that they have been buried and ignored.
It doesn’t
take a genius to state the obvious. In
the twenty first century, the decision that matters the most is not which
religion will be embraced but does modern man need any religion? Every culture on earth is becoming
increasingly secular, making decisions in our personal and group lives, devoid
of any divine consideration. The enemy
of every religion is no religion at all, believers of every stripe must join
arms to address our common enemy, secularism.
The question
that bothers me the most is whether religion is a sugar high for the poor
uneducated masses? That one is being
buried very deep in the face of secularism.
G.Goslaw
Landers, CA
