What's Up My Godless Heathen Homey?

I thought I'd write you quick note after learning that the exchange of information is going to destroy organized religion and large-scale warfare.

I don't know, Richie boy--I think you've gone off the deep end a bit. I've watched a few of your You Tube offerings and read a snippet or two there (still haven't gotten to your books yet because Song of Myself is just too beautiful to put down and let's face it, anybody with a brain in their head and a heart in their chest should be reading Walt Whitman every waking moment of the day.

I don't know man--this whole science replacing God thing that you kooky Bioethicists have drudged up again is leaving a bitter taste in my mouth. Not that I'm against offending organized religion because, shit--me and Nietzsche invented that shit; but I find the whole premise of religion and war becoming marginalized by the greater exchange of information to be a bit laughable.

Speaking of Nietzsche, he said it best in Thus Spake Zarathustra: "You have made your way from worm to man and much in you is still worm." Much in you is still worm, Richie boy--don't forget your roots.

I agree with you that it's a bit preposterous that so many millions of people out there worship words and the books that bind them and the ideas they project to the point of continuing to murder over them. It is a bit childish to worship and facilitate a long outdated ritual (no matter what the religion). But wouldn't you concur that religion is ultimately a positive organizing force in society?

No?

George Washington did. He said:

Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.

Now I know you British bastages don't respect Washington as much as we do here in the land of fluoride and white teeth but I think he made a valid point.

See, science has a point where it ends, where it can go no further and at that point it shuts down as a support system because logic can only go so far (I know that truth may hurt but sit with it and let it kill your ego and you'll feel much better about this whole thing).

I guess what I'm saying is that you'll never convince someone to turn away from their conception of divinity by appealing to their logic and reason. You have to speak to their heart and to do that, Richie boy, you need to understand metaphors. One well-placed metaphor can murder millions or lift them up to the heights of ecstasy.

People need a reason to live and science is the scenery of life, it isn't the driving principle that makes our boners raise the sheets at dawn every day.

God is not in the details because God is just a word. But that word is trying to point us past itself to a universal truth beyond names and forms, an underlying factotum of existence so basic that it supports and subverts the very logic which seeks to ascertain its circumference and depth.

Anyway, keep up the good work tearing the churches down brick by brick but just remember that the human heart abhors a vacuum--something has to be rebuilt in place of the church and the world already has enough Wal-Marts and universities.

Cheers Mate,

Josh