It’s ALWAYS Best to Share the Beauty
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I went to see my son last week at his home. We watched Cosmos together, and marveled at the universe, and I got to thinking…I had never talked much to my son about religion. I never took him to church as a small child, even though I myself was taken every Sunday to a Methodist church by my parents.
Sometime when I was about six, I became very spiritual…and thought I felt God. After all, I was out in the swamps all day, among all the marvelous nature that it holds. I have never lost that revelation ever, and I don’t believe you need Jesus to get there.
Some people even think there is a “god’ gene. And that could be true, if we are all stardust, it would explain the tremendous proclivity people have toward the spiritual.
It was at that moment when I was five, that I decided that churches were not necessary for a relationship with god. And so, I’ve always had that…connection. Churches became…places where people gathered. But you certainly didn’t need them at all.
Nevertheless, I wondered what my own son thought about…God. I know I have always put the Ten Commandments as a rule for my own life, not because they were in the Bible, but because they make so much sense. But I never wanted to force my son to church. I figured that when he got older, he could study it all on his own.
As we watched Cosmos, I didn’t say what I was thinking, and at some moment (when they were talking about the big bang) I wanted to ask him if he believed there was a ‘god”, but then, he turned to me and said, “You know, there is absolutely no reason at all that evolution and God can’t exist together. It could have been his plan all along.
Exactly. (It must be genetic)
The universe is filled with so much beauty….and it’s always better to share it, isn’t it?
So, Enjoy some smaller parts of the universe and…hopefully, you will feel the need to share.
(Thanks to JR)
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By my example, I lived by the ten commandments, and my son does also. He got that from me. While it may seem I was remiss in his knowledge of the Bible, I was forever –just by pointing out the wonders of nature, not remiss in his spiritual education, remarkably, he has come to ‘god’ whatever that is, because nobody really knows, even the physicists, since it could be something none of us have the brain capacity to even comprehend, what “GOD” exactly is.
Like I said, why would so many people on the planet feel there is some sort of God, if it wasn’t in our natural DNA? Steve Jobs once said it much better.
And may I ask? Did you raise your children in the church and are they religious? I’m not knocking churches, they are just not for me.
Although, you can imagine I LOVE the acoustics..
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You do well to throw the ball back to my side of the court, Joyanna. And I have to admit a drop-shot. Or three.
I sent my son to a ‘Baptist’ school and my daughter to a ‘Church of England’ school; neither for the religious but for the higher educational standards. It helped that both schools had firm ethics. Neither of the now grown children are ‘religious’.
As for my own example, not good there either. I was a ‘lapsed’ Catholic. Lip service and usually giving lip. So even my serves and lobs were pretty pathetic. I will have to answer for my poor play when all the box-office receipts and refunds are calculated. The Umpire will declare the game.
You have done better than I.
As for the question of the nature of God, I tend to the Aquinas view: God is the ‘Uncased cause of Everything’. I trust the Umpire will be merciful. Defining beyond that is a matter of deduction rather than empirical evidence, but then so is so much of the mathematics of the Universe.
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Typo. Should read….’‘Uncaused cause of Everything’.
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David Bohm. Typo. There are a few other typos there too.
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Quite right too. There is no conflict between evolution (one of several mechanisms for the development of life) and the One who devised the mechanism.
(Life started and developed initially without ‘evolution’ as we know it. The ‘taught’ evolution focusses on ‘survival of the fittest’ mechanisms and the passing on of genes, but there was a time before genes when ‘passing-on’ was just not applicable as there were no genes as such to pass on, nor creatures (vehicles) that did the passing on, nor competition between creatures for ‘environments’ due to the same lack of creatures . Modern ‘taught’ theory completely overlooks that early period).
But the issue of leaving the development of knowledge of God and the spiritual life of a human being to the individual ‘when he grows up’ is a worry, and with respect to a good friend, a cop-out. I am guessing you didn’t leave his finding out about nutrition of cleanliness to himself ‘when he grew up’ but rather made him wash his hands, take a shower, poop in an acceptable manner and eat his veggies.
‘Cosmos’ was (still is) a marvellous introduction to the vastness and the rough detail of the Universe, which itself it just one side of a complex ‘Reality’ created for (some say) our benefit (and perhaps other such creatures out there). But the other side gets neglected in our considerations except by the ‘religious’. The modern Particle Physicist is getting closer to the old Mystic and Priest by the day and the work of David Bohn back in the ’50 and 60’s is becoming ever more clarified. He showed with the mathematical logic tools used by Physicists that the Universe of matter is but one of two major ‘orders’ of reality, it being the ‘Explicate Order’. The other, the ‘Implicate Order’ is non-material but necessary for the explicate which depends upon it.
The language is different but both the ‘Religious’ and the Physicist describe the Supernatural.
We do not say that children should have physics left until they are grown up. We teach it at school and practice it every day at home.
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