Night Thoughts
A person asked me once “how do you honor God?” I assume that I had a puzzled look on my face because he went on to clarify.
“If you believe in God or a higher level of being or beings that created and have command of everything and yet has allowed people to have free will or choice what do you do to honor him/her/it/whatever? Assuming you don’t possess all of the answers yourself or not certain of all the operating instructions what do you do to indicate that you are appreciative of the existence that has been provided for you. Say you haven’t been raised to believe in any particular religion or better yet there is no church or temple in the town in which you live. Yet you believe in something, something that you believe you should praise. Something that you feel wants you to live or conduct yourself in a particular way. On a basic almost instinctual way what do you do to honor or to live in accordance with your belief in this entity?”
That was the question he posed to me. At the time I did not have a particular answer. Later that night I though long and hard about the question. I realized that what was asked was really two questions. What did I believe in and how did that make me act or how did my belief guide my actions? I smiled because it reminded me of the old Steve Martin routine, “What I Believe.”
So what do I believe? In no particular order here are some of the things I believe.
Belief in God. That the entity exists is real and all that stuff.
People are basically good. I know, I know that really puts me at odds with many of the organized religions in the world. Believe me I have been lectured to a great extent about the illogic of that belief. If I truly believed I would understand that humanity is fundamentally flawed and that the only salvation, redemption is to except the one true, savior, Lord, prophet, messenger etc. into your heart mind soul and through your new found faith only then will you become the truly good person that you wish to be. I heard it before, and truth be told emotionally as well as intellectually I just can’t buy it. I end up feeling bad for those who are trying to lead me to faith because I hate for them to feel as if they have failed with me. Usually I end of telling them that it’s not them or any lack of their discussion its just more along the lines of I’m not capable of letting the truth into my heart as of yet. One day, hopefully, I will be able to give me will, heart, emotions, love whatever to the deity. Then and only then will I be able to accept the truth into my entire being.
I will continue this discussion a little later as something has come up that I think may have quite a bit more relevance at this particular place and time.
The Center for Constitutional Rights has published a book entitled
ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT
AGAINST GEORGE W. BUSH
ISBN 1-933633-08-5
$9.95 paperback original (144 pages)
The authors of this book have investigated and gather evidence to present four articles of impeachment against the current President George W. Bush. The case is presented so well the charges and claims are so clearly defined and presented that on one hand you would think that no rational person could argue against what is being proposed. Yet I get the feeling that many people on the left don’t understand that many people who support Bush and his actions don’t really care that he’s broken the law or that he has violated the Constitution of the United States. As far as they are concerned the only thing that matters is that he, Bush, is a strong decisive president and that he is protecting us from the international terrorist conspiracy. Despite the fact that the Bush policies are bankrupting the economy and actually endangering the lives of millions of Americans many people support him on, pretty much, whatever he decides to do. So if the researchers and writers of the book are waiting for Congress to take the bait and step up and be adults, well don’t hold your breath waiting.
And for God’s sake don’t wait on the mainstream media to take the lead on much of anything.
I’m sleepy now. Let’s continue this later on this weekend.
