A Roman Story

A Christian apologist wrote a post entitled: "Our Relationship with HIM is Not Optional."

I started to comment but my response started to get a bit lengthy so I turned it into an article.

Part of his nonsensical title is correct but not from the author's canonical perspective. The veracity in the believer's statement stems from the fact that we are all a part of Infinite Consciousness, as a whirlpool is part of the Ocean, as rays from the Sun, so too are we connected to Eternal Source Energy.

The title, theme and apocryphal hubris of your article, leaves me with no other choice but to respond. I have a moral and ethical obligation to counter evangelical balderdash at every turn and writing is my platform.

A coerced relationship with an unseen, highly dubious deity is definitely optional. No human being has the slightest idea who or what God is, or if such an entity exist. Asking anyone to define or describe Divine Intelligence is like asking a fish to describe water. It can't be done.

We are the energetic progeny to some type of omnipotent presence, just as a whirlpool is part of, and the same energy of the ocean.

What religions fail to address is the fact that human beings on this minuscule planet (a planet that is less than a grain of sand if you look at the entire Milky Way Galaxy) are not the only thinking beings in the universe.

There are sextillions (70 million million million) of interstellar civilizations out there. The by-product of star formation are planets; planets that rotate around their nearest star, just as the Earth rotates around the Sun.

Is there a God for each one? Did Jesus go to the quintillion's (1 followed by 18 zeroes) of other planets that harbor life and die for their sins too? For those of you who would answer, "we have not found life outside our Solar System," we won't. Our closest neighboring galaxy, Andromeda, is 14,696,575,500,000,000,000 (14.6 quintillion) miles away. Even traveling at the speed of light - 186,000 miles per second - would take a few decades to get there. That's why we have not found life outside our planetary system.

If Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Carl Sagan, Nicholas Copernicus, Giordano Bruno, Galileo Galilei,  and many other erudite, scholarly, astronomers and scientist, had or have no clue who or what this entity may or may not be, most certainly Pastor Osteen, Bishop Jakes and Rev. Joyce Meyer don't have a clue.

What they do possess are very good motivational skills coupled with the ability to get a point across. It doesn't matter whether the point is legitimate or not, these evangelical shysters have the gift of gab and they use it to their humongous financial advantage.

The type of articles that glorify an unknown entity clearly indicate the author has simply bought into a Roman story, "The Greatest Story Ever Told," hook, line, and sinker.

By the way, if fundamentalist believers were to do an ounce of research, outside of their respective holy books, they would find plagiarism galore. About 80 percent of the Bible and the Qur'an are plagiarized. And get this .. the main characters are plagiarized: Jesus (Horus, Mithras, Dionysus); Moses (Manou, Mises); Noah's Ark (The Epic of Gilgamesh); "The Sermon on the Mount," and the list goes on and on.