Friday, February 17, 2017

Truth and Justice

The religion of the world is the worship of knowledge and power. Its only commandment is: assert and prevail or concede. Its “heaven” is “to be right” and its “hell” is “to be wrong” with the understanding that might does indeed make right, even as a battle of wits.

The worship of God is the adoration of knowledge and power. Likewise, the veneration of worldly authority is the adoration of knowledge and power. Generally speaking, the gist behind theism and atheism is one and the same. They are merely rival sects of the same religion. Their arguments are accusations of heresy.

What if there is a God and he is indeed omniscient and omnipotent? So what? What does knowledge and power have to do with friendship? If God is all-knowing and all-powerful but unfriendly… he is a devil worse than any Satan imaginable.

What if there is no God? What if we really are a coincidence? Knowledge of the meaningless and power as happenstance would be as vain as ignorance and impotence. Pleasure or pain would be lost to the same oblivion.

We choose to disbelieve in the supernatural… but we all believe regardless. Even the materialist sees meaning beyond the sum circumstances. We know there is good and evil beyond mere cause and effect. Even the nihilist cannot deny his bouts of self-righteous indignation.

Our gods heavenly and worldly are weighed in a balance never swayed by knowledge or power. We declare the righteousness of our deities in supplication of a measure beyond their wisdom and might. For all our worship of knowledge and power… truth and justice are the final authority.


4 comments:

  1. People tend to give very pretty pointless things importance that it does not deserve. If all we ever do is just worship with no point to it, then nothing is really getting done. As humans, we can make the world a better place--even better than it was when God created it.

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    1. People treat creations with the respect when it is the creators who deserve the glory. As for making the world a better place: I think God meant us to do that very thing. He destroys worlds when all they do is sit there.

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  2. Very profound, I am always amazed by your insight. All your convictions are sincere and ring absolutely true, knowledge and power will never determine our fate the fires of Truth and Justice are the only measure.

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    1. If it were otherwise then evil won from the beginning. I doubt we would even have a sense of good.

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