What the Future Brings

Too many people don't want to have a God around. The main reason for that so far as I can tell is that they don't want to be told what to do with their lives. But what's the only other option? Getting ordered about by other people.

Granted, on Earth that's how things are done because there's little way around it. We need a boss on a job, parents in a home, presidents and congresses in government. 

Such is life. My issue is, you're willing to be sent hither and yon by other folks just like you, who are no better than you and will make tremendous mistakes, who you trust as experts merely because they assure you they are, who will make you do things which you do not and of right should not have to do, yet this is seen as a better system than a belief in and reliance on God.

I don't know about you, but if the future depends on humanity doing the right thing, calling our prospects bleak is the most optimistic I can be.

God and Government

One of the typical criticisms of a belief in God is that, what, you just have to do what you're told because He's God? That's a great oversimplification of course, but I won't address that just now. What I will instead address though is what that attitude means within the purely human world.

When the government of the United States dictates something, what do we generally hear? This: you have to do what you're told because, well, democracy. And an awful lot of people won't think beyond that. You opposition folks just have to do it, on the raw authority of those in power.

There's a certain hypocrisy involved there, don't you think? And also a rather profound error.

At least a kind and loving God merits a following. Government, indeed any human construction, being obviously flawed by virtue of their very humanity, doesn't rise to that level. It is subject to make a great many wrong decisions, and it does. Yet we're to treat it as a god. Go figure.