Religion and reality
I have been exploring the issue of religion, man and his relationship to the forms of worship. Having been raised in a firm but flexible Christian family I spent my formative years in the belief that the “Christian Rules” were the right and just ones. Throughout my adult life I have been very lucky to have the opportunity to travel extensively all over the USA and the world. Having known and inspected several of my friends and their religious beliefs, I have grown skeptical and concerned of the true intent and agenda of those self exalted leaders and minions of these religious machines. This is not to say that there may not be valuable points and direction coming  from many of these groups. But, the idea that each exalts themselves as the one and only, is troubling. In science, we know that many experts with opposing views work hard at supporting and expanding upon their premises. In the end, in most cases, they generally take lessons from each and come together to understand a few fundamental facts, we are always learning, we don’t ever actually know, we just keep getting closer  (hopefully). Instead when we talk religion, we decide there are absolutes. Why?? What else is there in this human existence that is absolute?? It is absurd !! John Locke a very notable philosopher in the seventeenth century sat one day with five or six friends discussing just this subject. The end of this discussion set out that Locke would put his thoughts to paper for their review. This task, in amazement to his friends,  consumed the next 20 years of Locke’s life. He capsulated his thoughts into one text know as his “Essay”. The following is a excerpt from that text.