Views on religion (this one will cause responses!)

The development of human civilization has been one product of the intelligence and instinct that are part of being human. Religion is one part of that development that has been influenced by the greater consiousness called by many names by many religions throughout the centuries. Most of these religions, inspite of their common cries to the contrary, are based on the same concept of God. The basic concept is to promote love and kindness for each other and to live in ways that allow each of us to be what we can be and to be recognized as individuals that are all equal in the eyes of each other. This concept is needed to help all of us supress the animalistic and self-centered instinctive drives that brought us to the top of the inhabitants of this world. Without some religious pressure helping us get along we could never have became civilized. We would be like roving packs of wolves ruled by the most vicious in the pack. When the pressures of religion are weakened on a strongly individualistic member of our society we get the Hitlers and the Saddam Husseins who have no real love for any other person. These persons can warp the intentions of the religious pressure in their own society to support their own self-centered goals.

I have never raised kids (another story for another column) but I believe the instinctive me-centered animal that any uneducated child is must be balanced and controlled by the education and religion that society needs. All criminals and criminal actions are in some part the result of ineffective education and faulty religious pressure. That said, I have to qualify the statement by defining my concept of criminal. Criminal activity is an extension of the way a child of, say four, will hit another child and take away something the other child has. Breaking a societal law or rule is not necessarily a criminal act in my mind. The victimless crime is an oxymoron. If there is no victim, there cannot be a crime. "Crimes" based on religious rules are certainly crimes imposed on people by the religious criminals who want to have their own way. They are just advanced forms of the uneducated 3 or 4-year-old who has not been properly instructed.

We have all lost sight of the true root message of religion and instead have become focused on the messengers and the formatting of the message. Many millions of people have died over the centuries because someone was convinced they followed the wrong god. In fact, both victims and killers were focused on their messengers and formatting and had ignored the message of God (which was the same to all).

WyoKnott

A science comment

First I have to declare my official ignorance of any form of science beyond high school physics. That said, I still have opinions on top of opinions or I wouldn't be spending time writing this.

I am convinced modern physicists have been beating their collective head on a wall for several years. There is a significant understanding of the measureable and predictable effects of gravity and the electromagnetic force. I suspect there may be a similar but not quite fully predictable understanding of the "strong" and "weak" nuclear forces. The grand unified field theory that Einstein was never able to produce is still eluding scientists even with all the technical advances in computing and all the experiments with various particle accelerators...etc. Science will be stuck in this level of understanding until some person with a bit of insight and a willingness to express it cracks the wall. I will not live to see it and with the way we humans are destroying our own environment we may loose the chance. We need to support education and science with open minds. We must not limit our support to those persons and projects that fit into the simple pigeon-holes of tradition. Support the fringes of science and personal style so that unique ideas get tested instead of supressed.

WyoKnott

Quit paying elected officials!

We are all aware that elected government officials such as senators and congressmen are constantly being "romanced" by various special interest groups and political action committees. There are always ways for these groups to influence the decisions of our lawmakers. Most of this activity happens behind the scenes, out of the public eye. I believe we need to know who our elected officials are being influenced by. Here is my proposal:

Stop paying elected officials from the public coffers. Let them freely and openly accept their pay from the groups they support. Any person running for election will be required to list all sources of their political income.  For example: Candidate Jones will announce his support for and payment by this list of organizations: The NRA,  the auto industry PAC, the right to life movement, the British conservatives group...etc. As voters we will know where his votes will fall on the issues we find important. We can choose to vote for the candidates who are supported by the organizations we agree with or against the candidates who are paid by groups we strongly disagree with. The more effective politicians will receive better pay from their support groups and we will not be  voting for candidates who promise the moon but deliver BS.

Think about it...

Welcome to Science Politics and Religion

I just created this blog and there is no content as yet. I plan to pour out my personal opinions about the three subjects in the title and I certainly expect to encounter disagreement. My only request is that your responses are not personal attacks, are reasonably literate and properly spelled (within reason).