Day Coming for the Articulate Literalist
Christianity must beef up belief so perceptions will promote "believing is not just believing meanings".
Technologies are changing perceptions and it seems to me the popular organized religions are gaining little acceptance while physical sciences solidify greatly, I wonder if it is possible science and the spiritual may ever even somewhat merge their perceptions. Possible that UFO views could bring them together as respect for the unseen gains awareness.
I detect some increase in the comments favoring a designer on the scientific side as against the randomness more accepted in simplistic concept such as the "big bang."
Since war is always with us how does war enter in? War is the most primitive competition. Success here has a purpose. This is llikely why the utopian societies fail. Their energies are consumed by instinctual competition. Some attempt to achieve it by force and others predominately by sleight of hand in a weaken field. If another group succeeds too successfully than they are a threat to the weaker groups. War feeds on fear.
War is necessary for the group psychology which operates out of fear of any and all other groups. There is nothing like two groups agreeing with each other. It reflects and even guarantees the opposite of what they ostensibly are trying to achieve, like a deadly poker game.
How does the individual maneuver in this struggle? I do not see much to protect the individual unless it is the electoral college which was first designed by the U,S, founders to benefit minorities.
All these forces wrestling with each other are important to appreciate the more technical age we are living in today, as opposed to the world of the ancients and those the Bible spoke.
I believe the effect of technologies on all our perceptions will require an adaptation of some kind, to understand a more articulate concept of faith than is accepted today. In this new mixture, the Bible, if it is not to be under cover changed in the turmoil of translations, must translate the original belief of the ancients. Not yet edited Sunday. First edited version Monday.
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