The Hubble telescope has given mankind great insight into how stars and galaxies are formed and how they die. And if celestial bodies be born and then die, why cannot gods the same be?
Today, we are witnesses - to the demise of global belief systems. It is doubtful if ever in recorded history, mankind has had a front row seat to watch or observe a religion locked in mortal combat – not with external forces as the unwary might be led mistakenly into believing, but with the great and mighty spirit called 'Truth' - that merciless examiner of all that we hold to be true and that most patient of collectors who allows us the freedom to believe all that we wish to, but not to escape its consequences.
Which is why when a religion tolerates no examination from within or without, which labels all forms of dissent as heresy, which imbues its clergy with powers both spiritual and temporal, it shall in the end, have nothing unique to offer. It becomes an irrelevancy and its tenets open to interpretation and abuse by the clergy class.
Why?
Because truth or the determination of the truth will not be rigorous and very soon, its skid-mounted, movable beacons and precepts, meant to delineate justice from injustice, truth from untruth, will lead to listlessness amongst its adherents. They are given the task of holding dear a religion which has become irrelevant in the modern world. Violence erupts.
These adherents will lash out at even those who tolerate its idiosyncrasies because it views all such tolerance as condescension. It will seek no force of argument – because it has none. Its new converts will be found amongst the most ignorant on earth - those it will rather not have!
It will be aware of its ungainliness amongst those it so desperately wishes to convert but are ensconced in deep romance with their gods. This will rile them to no end. They thus shall lash out and seek to hurt those who do so marvelously well without the sterling advice offered by their great book.....
Like Red Giant's in the throes of death however, it will first be seen to expand and consume a large part of the celestial skies causing much destruction on earth….but the laws of the universe are steadfast. In the end, it will shrink and become a dwarf - a blackbody - a net recipient of light (truth).
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