"why you gonna measure what you can't equate" --"Who" the Newsboys
From my window I can see light shining through the trees. And it just is. My eyes tell me it is beautiful. My ears hear music from the next room, but I can't tell what song. I feel the keyboard under my fingers, waiting for the next word, patient at my attempts to spell: the delete key forgiving any mistake. But yet there must be something beyond. Beyond sight, beyond sound; beyond imagination and thought. We call this faith. We call the place of faith the soul. If we were forced to give a definition, that is. They both go beyond the simple definitions here, because I don't even know the final definition. They are words bandied about, without thought to their pasts. Or their futures.
My religion teaches that all people strive for things beyond them. And we can see this in our material world: we teach kids the importance to dream of their future job; to imply that success is a worthy goal, whether or not it is achieved. For a while (until it was shattered in the counter culture era, as many things were) it was called the American Dream. The same holds true for religion. But it is hardly recognized and if it is, it is inconvienent.
My country has become a theocracy, though it is not a completely exact term. We have no word for it in English, but we have been duped into allowing an athiest theocracy. People praise Jefferson over and over for a separation of church and state, but TJ could not predict his words would be used to establish athiesm as the established policy of the government. You are not respected in this society if you base major decisions off of the standards gained from religion. Just think what would happen to a government official who says he bases decisions off of his religion; how much contempt would he get--how much scorn?
People can say they are open minded on stuff, but they never say what opened their minds. How much they know about both sides of the issues? Could they argue an issue they believe the opposite of? How do they make sure, that in their open-mindedness, that nothing falls out?
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Submission Name: 'how do you define what you can't compar
