Post #154 "Forming a World Conscience"

Is the perfect Life the Life of God? As one becomes God, does that one live the Perfect Life? Perfection is seen as the essence of God. Again, how is this attained? What offers a better way of becoming God than that which prolongs and perfects life. Does this means that which conquers mortal death? What better way of arriving at Perfection than conquering mortal death? What quality of God speaks more to Perfection than that of Immortality which includes freedom from all death, mortal death as well as spiritual death? Religion's plan of Immortality, however, does not seem to include freedom from mortal death. Then, what about science? Does science hold the key to Perfection, to Godliness? Does science hold the key to Immortality, to freedom from mortal death? It seems, then, that while religion looks to freedom from spiritual death, science, on the other hand, looks to freedom from mortal death. If there is freedom from mortal death, is freedom from spiritual death necessary? If science holds the key, then how does science, in regard to life and death, differ from religion? Is the difference only in terms of the definitions of spiritual and non-spiritual? Could the determining difference be how each system approaches and defines Knowledge? In this case, could Knowledge through Reason, rather than Knowledge through Faith, be a better plan?

Religion, in one form or another, has directed politically, culturally, and socially, much of the world's societies. Through this political, cultural, and societal control, religion provides answers to the basic life questions. Thus, religion has set and determined the basis for past and present morality. Religion has assumed authority over the basic issues of life, but as religion has assumed and been given, throughout history, total authority through its moral code of good and evil, it could be determined that religion can and should be held responsible for creating a world morality that thrives on war and destruction; a world morality that allows the powerful to feed on the innocent and vulnerable. Religion has established and nourished a power based, class conscious, and gender conscience, in other words, a victim/bully world. Religion has been the basis that has established and nourished world attitude, world structure, world systems, and world conscience.