A PACK OF NEURONS

The competition of ideas, as in any other arena, makes for a healthier and /or better product. Sporting events or capitalistic undertakings are given to rules that support what can be proven. Some suggest the competition of the religious/spiritual nature is often led by words based in faith and the unknown. I suggest the latter is becoming increasingly untrue.

Frances Crick, co-discoverer of DNA's double helix structure, in his book "The Astonishing Hypothesis, points to you being no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. That is, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, all crammed into a pack of neurons.

So if their is no design or purpose, what of evil? Atheists and "New Age" believers would have you believe that religion is the blame for what ails the world, "comparable to the small pox virus but harder to eradicate", as stated by Richard Dawkins, who also believed in the blind pitiless indifference of nature, where some people are going to get hurt and others get lucky. That explains why this white pack of neurons should have no problem owning and selling some other black pack of neurons. That presents a wonderful contrast and immediately disproves Dawkins.

It is in the "outcomes of living", where we can study what shows up as good and evil, where we witness the relevancy of our belief, and realize the validity of its fact. It has become obvious that this nations designation, as Christian, has come under attack. But you can not pull away from our nation it's Cristian roots, or characterize it other than that, as its traditional identity, nor can you define it apart from the words, "all men are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights." The diluting of Christianity will create a vacuum, where it's detractors and so called "spiritualists" will reel in hoar at what gets sucked into our land.

The Gospel speaks not only to eternal salvation of men's soals; it addresses family and education, law and economics, international relations and scientific endeavors. It condemns rebels and thugs and taught us about banking and insurance, while researching maps and roads. It shamelessly proclaimed Jesus Christ as King over every single aspect of life. Christianity was not always perfect but it had in itself the seeds of its own perfection, and wrote The Book on how to attain your own. Inspired by Whom, you might ask. Read it with an open mind without preconcieved prejudice. It will become entirely unmistakable, by Whom. B.C.