Hope, Faith and Charity
These are the building blocks of religion. Have Hope in a better place, have Faith in a higher being, give Charity to your fellow man. These sound good on paper, but don’t perform so well in reality.
Hope causes inaction. If someone hopes something will happen, rather than makes it happen, it rarely happens. When it does though…oh hold me tight…it’s a Miracle!
Faith causes one not to think. Why use reason, when you can just have Faith? If you really, really believe as hard as you can, it will come true. If you run this through the filter of reason, it rarely works out that way. Faith causes one to give up reason. Reason is the ability of Man that separates him from animals. It is his tool of survival.
Charity causes self-sacrifice. “Love thy neighbor as thy love thyself” means sacrificing yourself for others. Why? It’s nice to host a barbeque upon occasion, but I’m not paying my neighbors’ mortgage. I could probably afford it, but it’s My money, not my neighbors’. How much do I need to sacrifice to be charitable? Taken to it’s logical conclusion, I should give as long as I have more than someone else. This means that ultimately, I will be the poorest person I know. Sorry, I’m not interested in this “virtue”.
This belief system does more than screw up individual minds. It impacts world events.
We Hope that Iran really doesn’t get a bomb. We Hope that if they do, they don’t actually use it. We Hope that the international community will find a solution. We Hope this doesn’t lead to World War III.
We have Faith that we will find a way to solve this. We have Faith in the United Nations to find a resolution that returns us to the status quo. We have Faith that this will not lead to World War III.
We are Charitable to our fellow man. We feel for the civilians of Gaza and Lebanon. We feel for the citizens of Iran. It would not be right to punish the Iranian people, who have nothing to do with the madness of their leaders, in order to end their leaders’ homicidal fantasies.
Hope, Faith and Charity.
…about to cause World War III.
Sunday August 27, 2006 - 12:36pm (MDT)
Hope causes inaction. If someone hopes something will happen, rather than makes it happen, it rarely happens. When it does though…oh hold me tight…it’s a Miracle!
Faith causes one not to think. Why use reason, when you can just have Faith? If you really, really believe as hard as you can, it will come true. If you run this through the filter of reason, it rarely works out that way. Faith causes one to give up reason. Reason is the ability of Man that separates him from animals. It is his tool of survival.
Charity causes self-sacrifice. “Love thy neighbor as thy love thyself” means sacrificing yourself for others. Why? It’s nice to host a barbeque upon occasion, but I’m not paying my neighbors’ mortgage. I could probably afford it, but it’s My money, not my neighbors’. How much do I need to sacrifice to be charitable? Taken to it’s logical conclusion, I should give as long as I have more than someone else. This means that ultimately, I will be the poorest person I know. Sorry, I’m not interested in this “virtue”.
This belief system does more than screw up individual minds. It impacts world events.
We Hope that Iran really doesn’t get a bomb. We Hope that if they do, they don’t actually use it. We Hope that the international community will find a solution. We Hope this doesn’t lead to World War III.
We have Faith that we will find a way to solve this. We have Faith in the United Nations to find a resolution that returns us to the status quo. We have Faith that this will not lead to World War III.
We are Charitable to our fellow man. We feel for the civilians of Gaza and Lebanon. We feel for the citizens of Iran. It would not be right to punish the Iranian people, who have nothing to do with the madness of their leaders, in order to end their leaders’ homicidal fantasies.
Hope, Faith and Charity.
…about to cause World War III.
Sunday August 27, 2006 - 12:36pm (MDT)
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