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Unjustly Accused? Just Kick the Dog Injustice is your nail. You must struggle against injustice. It is the struggle that is important. Do not expect to achieve perfect justice. Do not expect to right all wrongs. Do not expect to save the naive from the vultures. Little is more foolish than the hero carelessly charging off to save the fair maiden. Especially if later he discovers that the wench is a volunteer temple prostitute. Be careful of whom you blame for your perceived injustice. Understanding the Nature of God, Part VIII A View of God How does a simple idea, a view about the Nature of God, change one’s religion, religious practices, and even such fundamental human ideas as charity? If God is not human. If God has little interest in humans. If God has little interest in human activity, except possibly as a means to an end of His choosing? What then is the importance of prayer, ministers, churches, cathederals, or a heirarchial system of leadership of a religion? Answers: None. In that event, isn’t religion an invention? Understanding the Nature of God, Part VII What Will God Do For Us? What will God do for us? Nothing. Why should He? What does He do for the other species? Why should you expect to get any better answer to your fears and prayers than does a deer fearing a wolf and praying that he isn't seen or smelled? Don’t expect so much of God. God gets to be demanding if He wants to, and He doesn’t seem to do much demanding. On the other hand, God might expect some things of you, so that you might better enable His Plan. Understanding the Nature of God, Part VI What Do We Owe God? What do we owe God? Nothing. This not a question of debt. You haven’t borrowed anything from God. You have not run up a “tab” at some kind of celestial “company store”. You didn’t ask God for life. Your parents made that decision for you. You didn’t ask God for “soul”. You didn’t ask God for a portion of free will. These things were imposed on you. Free will allows you both rejection and refusal. When you are given a free gift, you do not have a reciprocal obligation to pay it back. Understanding the Nature of God, Part V Physics, Chemistry, Evolution, and God's True Creation How does God make the Universe work? It is called physics and chemistry, and He created it. The smartest of us can be challenged, study, and learn from it. To learn of God. To know God. Knowledge of God is not found by spending time on your knees. Knowledge of God is found by scientific study of God’s Universe. How does God make His created life on Earth work? It is called evolution and He created it so the smartest ones of us could be challenged, study , and learn from it. Understanding the Nature of God, Part IX The Man-God Relationship God is not very interested in us humans. Yes, we are indirectly His creation. Yet, we are only a tiny portion of Life. He Creates, changes non-life to Life. When He does, He creates a robust, persistent, tough, adaptable Creation. God Creates for Success. Success at What? Answer: Living. Life, growing, spreading out, changing and adapting to new and different environments, spreading from one planet to another across intergalactic distances. Understanding the Nature of God, Part III Exploration for Purposes of Understanding Exploring understanding the nature of God is usually done from the pulpit. Few questions are welcome at that time. Indeed, even then, almost always, church leaders choose the opposite track. God isn’t enough? Just add Jesus. That isn’t enough? Add The Holy Spirit. That isn’t enough? Anthropomorphize God. Add confusion, muddle details, and make exorbitant claims. The Truth About Violence & War, Religion & Terrorism Human beings are too violent to be truly civilized. Civilization is only a thin veneer laid atop a thick multiple layered structure of fear, suspicion, jealousy, envy, acquisitiveness, greed and misunderstood sexual drives. It is, however, this thin veneer of civilization that keeps us striving for excellence, deflects our energy, and ameliorates our ruthlessness toward members of all species, but especially our own. Nature of God, Part X Put God's In His / Her Place Ultimate Reality simply Is. Religion, organized, or not, cannot change the Nature of God. God doesn’t care what humans call Him. God doesn’t care where He is worshipped. God doesn’t care if He is worshipped. And God doesn’t care how He is worshipped. Any constructed temple by any name, or any design is not God’s place. God’s only "place" is in you. For He is within you, for as long as you draw breath. I Am Who I Am God exists. This statement of faith is the ultimate assumption. This assumption may simply be an egomaniacal self conceit centered around the idea that “I”, a human being, am so “special”. It is not possible for me to exist without there being an all-powerful God that “made me”. It is an unsupported and unstable ego platform. It is only a small step to an egomaniacal anthropomorphous God. That kind of God is more palatable or acceptable to the vast majority of humans. God’s Christmas Tree Lights, Skinny-Dipping in Paradise and Sweets God created all the stars. Imagine being there to see all the stars of the universe twinkle into existence like an enormous string of Christmas tree lights. Why do we have eyes? To see light. Maybe the ancient Egyptians were not so dumb in their worship of the sun? Why is it that human beings have a natural affinity for sunshine, sunlight, and the warmth of sunlight? How is all food created? By sunlight. So, how does God feed us? He makes us sweets. God Is Evil ? Evil exists. Random chance events of nature. Chance events that are the result of free will choices of humans. Now apply these words: like, limits, happy, fear, misunderstood, and control to yourself. Are you wearing blinders? Do you try to deny God? God is neither good nor evil. Why should God “spoil” you? Why should God desire a rotten soul? God Is Dead? God is dead. The whole idea is and was dumb. The real question is not whether God is dead. The question is, is He alive? Is God alive in any sense in which we humans could quantify, or could measure. Is God alive in any sense in which we humans could detect? This is likely doubtful. And, in fact, God may be so disinterested in us as individuals of our species that He could make very sure that we could not detect Him. How do you define lifeand death? Especially as it pertains to a Deity? Families Are No Longer Important to America, the Tax Code Says So Children were once seen as a Blessing of the Gods. Parents with many children were seen as favored citizens. How the world has turned. Society has turned its face away from children and has instead begun to tax them. Governments tax something they wish to supress. In our modern world, children are not seen as very important. The tax deduction for children and their real costs, medical, dental, and education is a joke. We have lost our aim, our goals, and our future.

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