Ready For The Second Bite?

Following my last post (The Harm That They Do), I’ve been happily questioned as to how one is to know, or indeed who is to decide, what should be regarded as gems of truth.  And, if this is not, in fact, the case for any book, and not just “the bible.”

I dearly appreciate this chance to explain.

There are only a handful of books in the world that purport to be the “revealed word of god.”  As such, it is easy to understand how they can exert unusual influence, and unduly impose themselves on the mainsprings of the mind.

Even as a young boy, listening to “the glory of the word” being sprung, I had ample opportunity and occasion to let my mind wander, and ponder.  And, after what seems like a lifetime, I came to realize that truth, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.  And that, as such, we come to discover and appreciate a broad range of infinitely more subtle truths, as they are allowed to gestate and come to full term in the nurseries of our own minds.

But this can only happen if we allow ourselves the time and permission to bear the seeds of germane ideas and ideals, sometimes for a lifetime, as we adjust their fit and features to the feel of our own and other’s experience, while holding them up to the full light of reason.

And, since this has led right into it, this is also the main “right to life” that I think the founding fathers of America felt had to be honored and needed to be protected, when they followed up and enlarged on the claims made in that wonderful Declaration of Independence, by establishing a constitutional government freed from the gruesome grasp of religion.

It also points to the absolute horror that I see taking place, due to the murder-by-abortion of innocent inquiry in its tender youth, by religious zealots who wish to cut out this (dare I say, “god given”) seed, and make forever barren this womb of the mind – first by scarring its walls with the introduction of any number of assorted and sundry points of someone else’s ass-’o-nine articles of faith, and then by sealing it closed forever beneath the burning brand of some bigoted belief.

Phew!  It’s no wonder that there are so many lost souls in the world, that don’t seem to mind blowing themselves or somebody else up.

Hope I didn’t bore you with the answer folks.