Religion

You are inoculated in a culture once you are born. The culture becomes so ingrained you live and see only in the light of its prism. Stepping outside the culture is often impossible for most people.  Even when they do take a step outside, it is only into a culture with a very close affinity. Another “Western” like culture is what is embraced and you proclaim yourself “world class”.

There are intellectual risks to stepping outside your culture. Here in America we take the core precepts of Christianity for granted. It infuses us like the air we breathe. Christianity appears as anything but a linear progression if we apply scholarship to its genesis and evolution. There were twists and turns all along its evolution and inescapable questions arise about its numerous junctures. The more one learns, the more challenging is belief in singular story.

As America’s preeminence declines, other truly different cultures will erode this culture. One causality will likely be Christianity as an unassailable truth. It will be submerged back into the realm of “faith” and cease today’s forced competition with the empirical in America.

The competition fires are being fanned by our politicians. They are using Christianity as a gambit to control the people for their own nefarious ends. The game is who can throw the most combustible material on the fire. Other cultures, even “western like” cultures, are taken aback by this obvious farce. 

You can not force feed religious tenets on others and achieve a sincere and enduring result. Religion implies willing sacrifice.

Religion needs no proof or justification other than the belief of the faithful.  They will always stand as a group apart.

Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's,

and unto God the things that are God's

Matthew 22:21