I Believe ...

I believe that God, the creator, does not involve himself in our petty affairs. He is the source and intelligence of the universe and all that is in it, and by giving man choice, man is accountable for consequences for all choices made, both individually and collectively within the environment, with its ever changing variables sprinkled with constants (fate) as we know it or define it.

Prayer works because there is a collective human consciousness and higher spiritual realm, supra reality/environment, the individual spiritually influences the definition of that higher spiritual realm of alternative futures (consisting of individual destinies and unalterable fates). The individual determines their destiny via body, mind, spirit (soul), self actualized living, while coping in life with specific fate as determined by realities over which he has no choice or control (the given constants and parameters of his life). Think now of the Serenity Prayer and the Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi.

IMO, Catholic confession works because it psychologically cleanses the person of guilt and re-focuses the self to living a life free of sin. It would not work for a person who has no ethics or morals, no guilt, and is remorseless, i.e. the hardened criminal or others, unless they experienced a spiritual awakening or rebirth and opened their hearts to agape love and awareness capable of feeling and knowing the difference between right and wrong.

The person confessing his sins is proactively, positively projecting a path for progress in his life, learning from his past, with or without the assist of clerical redirection. Christian ethics promotes values clarification and helps in making wiser choices in the future that attenuate sinning in one’s life. Christianity is a consequence of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. All religions known to man are consequences yielding consequences by their very existence. It is the challenge of religions and of governments to unify the family of man to achieve peace. prosperity, progress, and happiness. Whether one confesses or not, one must cope with their conscience privately, knowing where they could have made a more effective choice in the past, and how to improve their choices in the future. If they do not do that, then they are simply a mindless, uncaring, machine without a soul.


It is man’s duty to serve God, not for God to serve man either individually or collectively. God is above all that. That which we would like him to do for us, but which we should and can do ourselves, he will not and should not do for us. “One Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” says nothing about God solving our problems for us, but simply reminds us of our subordinate status to God, the Almighty.


However you may conceive or do not conceive the God concept in your mind is irrelevant. What is relevant is that you realize that we, the people, are necessarily subservient to a cohesive intelligent greater entity collective universal consciousness, the unified organization known to us as America, (of the people, for the people and by the people) is under, not over, or even equal to the synergetic whole we give strength to preserving, our Nation.