Something greater

What binds us together

God cannot be dead. By definition, only a god can kill another god. Maybe not even then. No matter how god-like we might feel, we don’t have that power.

What we are perfectly capable of doing is ignoring, discounting, mocking, and holding in contempt what we don’t understand. The thinkers of the Enlightenment gave us the partial ability to set aside what we thought we knew about the world so that truths could be revealed. Eventually, and perhaps in anger and resentment, some of them decided that what we could perceive with our senses, or with tools we created with our human hands, was all that was important.

Having come to this place, the organized religion of the Enlightenment world, Christianity, became a target. After most of its precepts were attacked and hog-tied, any injustice perpetrated by the institution, or members of the institution, was pulled up and waved like a flag of victory. Once god was declared dead - and Nietzsche was not the first to say so - the feeding frenzy began.