In Order To Live Man Must Believe

Historically, Religion Has Given People Another World To Live In, A World More Adaptive To The Human Spirit. As A Student Of World Religions, I See Religion As The Winnower Of The Wisdom Of The Human Race. Of Course, Not Everything About These Religions Is Wise. Their Social Patterns, For Example - Master-slave, Caste, And Gender Relations - Have Been Adopted From The Mores Of Their Time. But In Their View Of The Nature Of Reality, There Is Nothing In Either Modernity Or Postmodernity That Rivals Them.

When Historians Look Back On Our Century, They May Remember It Most, Not For Space Travel Or The Release Of Nuclear Energy, But As The Time When The Peoples Of The World First Came To Take One Another Seriously.

Seen Through The Eyes Of Faith, Religion's Future Is Secure. As Long As There Are Human Beings, There Will Be Religion For The Sufficient Reason That The Self Is A Theomorphic Creature - One Whose Morphe (form) Is Theos - God Encased Within It. Having Been Created In The Imago Dei, The Image God, All Human Beings Have A God-shaped Vacuum Built Into Their Hearts. Since Nature Abhors A Vacuum, People Keep Trying To Fill The One Inside Them.

We All Carry It Within Us: Supreme Strength, The Fullness Of Wisdom, Unquenchable Joy. It Is Never Thwarted, And Cannot Be Destroyed.

Modern Science Agrees That The Universe Consists Of Vibrations, But Sound Is More Than Vibration. Distinct From White Noise, Sound Is Vibrations In Harmonic Proportions, And From The Billions Of Vibrations That Are Possible, The Universe Shows A Startling, Overwhelming Preference For The Few Thousand That Make Harmonic Sense.this Is Because The One, From Which All Things Issue, Is Beautiful.