The Hubble telescope has given mankind great insight into how stars and galaxies are formed and how they die. And if celestial bodies be born and then die, why cannot gods the same be?
We
are witnesses to the demise of a global belief system. It is doubtful if ever in
recorded history, mankind has had the privilege of studying the dynamics of a
religion locked in mortal combat – not with external forces as the unwary
might be led mistakenly into believing but with that great and mighty spirit
called Truth - that merciless examiner of all that we hold to be true and that
most patient of Collectors who allows us the freedom to believe all that we wish
to, but not to escape its consequences.
Which
is why when a religion tolerates no examination from within or without, which
labels all forms of dissent as heresy, which imbues its clergy with powers both
spiritual and temporal, it shall in the end will find that it has nothing unique
to offer. It becomes an irrelevancy and its tenets open to interpretation and
abuse by the mullah class.
Why?
Because
truth or the determination of the truth will not be rigorous and very soon, its
complete lack of immovable beacons and markers delineating justice from
injustice, truth from untruth, will lead to a listlessness amongst its adherents
who very soon they become violent and attack all others who are in harmony with
their gods.
Adherents who will lash out at even those who tolerate its idiosyncrasies because it views all such tolerance as condescension. It will
seek no force of argument – because it has none. Its new converts will be
found amongst the most ignorant on earth and it will be aware of its
ungainliness amongst those it so desperately wishes to convert but who are
ensconced in deep romance with their gods and this will rile them to no end.
They thus shall lash out and seek to hurt those who do so marvellously well
without the sterling advice offered by their great book.....
Such
a religion will in the end die out because the great merciless spirit of truth
will snuff it out. Like Red
Giant's in the throes of death however, it will first be seen
to expand and will consume by fire a large part of the celestial skies causing
much destruction on earth….but the laws of the universe are steadfast. In
the end, it will shrink and become a dwarf and a net recipient of light (truth).
Didiscottie