The Rise of Religion: Part 3
Before closing this series of articles, I think it essential to mention that I am not against all the moral and economic pillars of liberalism per say. Nor am I against all the other ideologies proposed throughout history, each one notably being deemed “radical,” before becoming accepted into the pantheon of political and philosophical thought--again, per say. I am against the immoral and sometimes amoral doctrines and expectations that each have upheld and supported.
I believe that with each man-created movement we are drawing ever closer to the realization, or at least the opportunity to realize, that we as a species are not perfect nor will we ever be, at least morally. Researchers may inspire and produce wonderful contraptions and ideas, but there will always be one or more people who will harness it for ill. Even the motives of the researchers may be based on selfish ambition, greed, jealousy, and hate.
Nevermind if society realizes and fully accepts that this is the true state of the world, things will continue unabated. The West will probably fall in its power and prestige within global affairs; another region will rise...and the process will carry on.
What we must realize is that humanity is morally at a loss, and is accountable for its actions. Each and every one of us has the scientific and spiritual capabilities to overcome our base characteristics. Society has recognized this in the legal system: people are held to their actions and intentions, the latter of which may be hard to prove empirically, but which we can sense and detect much better, easier, and faster.
At this point, I think it is helpful if we take a quick divergence: the law is not the end of anything. What it is is a means to satisfy aggression and hurt, loss and injury inflicted on others. It is also imperfect, for men and women can and have used it to complement their avaricious pursuits. Above all, it does not provide true justice in moral terms.
Humans are incapable of delivering true justice, as all judges and attendants to the law indirectly acknowledge when they must argue in defense of someone who is openly guilty of an act (though this action is an intelligent move) or when they must compensate a death or some other life-altering event with money or an entity that is incomparable and immeasurable to the moral qualities of love and selfless sacrifice, among others.
And so I conclude. No matter what your beliefs, misbeliefs, disbeliefs, and/or unbeliefs, we can all agree on two things: we will all die at some point, and the world (and possibly universe) will come to an end.
The end may occur in two plausible manners, and in two degrees of time. I will first mention the latter: either soon or relatively soon (for time is an infinite conception). In terms of the former: either naturally (for those who do not have a faith: the sun will expand and swallow up the first four planets in our solar system or an asteroid will collide with Earth) or by divine intervention.
I personally believe in the second alternative of both categories. Of course I am unsure about the exact timing of the end coming “relatively soon.” But I am sure that the complete end will come by divine intervention, namely when Jesus comes back to Earth.
What we do in the meantime, in our relatively infinitesimal lifespan, is of lasting importance. We must hold true to the moral underpinnings, in contradiction to the teachings of any given time, and most likely in contradiction to a sizable number of pillars of the many ideologies that were, that be, and that will.