Egocentric Concept & Rape of the Planet

This may be the second biggest egocentric concept and assumption. It reassures us humans that we have importance. Especially to someone as powerful as God. This idea does a lot for humans. It allows us to believe that there is life after death. It allows us to believe that we have a connection to God. It permits a self-indulgent sense of pride. A self-satisfaction degree of pride that we are “better than” animals.

It justifies our otherwise stupid actions. Our actions of knowingly, or unknowingly, changing our environment in disastrous ways. We give ourselves a sanctioned license to “seek dominion over all of the earth”. If you read (Genesis 9:16), this might not be a good idea. God plainly says He has a relationship with animals.

I worry a lot more about this question than I ever have about the existence of God. I have felt connected to God as long as I can remember. I have never known if He has ever answered one of my prayers. We humans, and Me, Myself, and I, want desperately to believe that we are important. We want it so much, so badly.

We humans could have invented the idea of “soul”. The idea of soul counters the observable facts of sudden, violent, and slow, disease-driven death. We could have invented soul to give ourselves false, but inspired, hope.

Then as an after thought, we may have invented “God”. We also needed a God to “create” our souls. In other words, a falsehood nested inside a falsehood. A circular and self-supporting argument. You know how lies can grow and grow with each telling. One after the other until you are trapped in a fine mesh net of your own falsehoods.

That worry worms inside my consciousness and causes me to squirm intellectually more than a bad case of hemorrhoids.

The closest I have ever come to evidence of soul is found in this story. There was a time and place when there was this custom of sitting up with the dead. When my grandfather died, my father, at about age 16, was considered old enough to take part in this custom. As he sat there, observing his father’s corpse. He saw what he interpreted as the “soul” leave my grandfather’s body and ascend upwards until it vanished through the ceiling.

I challenged his story. My father was a devoutly religious man all his life. He swore to me with his hand on his Bible that it was true. I believe my father believed that it did happen. I still have to question.

Humans are not the only intelligent species in the universe. I think God has been running around like Johnny Appleseed for 30 billion years. He has been planting His Gardens all over His universe. Why waste all that good gardening space? God does not waste. Other sentient species have got to also be a part of God and His Plan.

Animals, life forms of all sorts, even insects and plants may also have a part of Deity, or soul implanted in them. This would maximize God’s ability to learn. Learn without waste of the other possible strands of DNA operating on this planet. I think that God began His system of soul placement very early in the development of life. As the life forms gained in complexity, God's ability to use life to gather information, and learn from it, grew.

To think that God waited until humans evolved is simply more egocentricism. God expects nothing more of us than He does of any other species. This also requires us to re-examine our attitudes that have encouraged us to rape our planet.

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(c) Copyright 2006: George Wallace completed an MA and taught in the public schools for 28 years. He recently published a book on religion which lashes out at nearly all of the comfortable ideas about God, the trappings of organized religion, the layers of money sucking priesthood, and their departures from the fundamental ideas and messages of Religion. His pithy comments and suggestions for a return to a God-centered personal religion will outrage everyone. www.OhGodIsThatYou.com

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