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Where have our Godly scientists gone; those who proved the power of prayer to influence the outcomes of their surgeries? Those who believed that God worked through them as instruments of their minds, blessed with the intelligence and understanding of God’s role in their calling.

I feel I was the last generation in my own family to be brought up with any spiritual education; Sunday school, worship services, prayer and Bible study, singing in a church choir to honor God. We have denied this undying generations of most children with the knowledge and embracing of their own souls and the spirit of God in their lives. We have, as a society, turned our backs on God in our quest to obtain more material things, thinking we are giving our future generations better lives, with fewer struggles than we and our parents and grandparents experienced. Many today have useless educations at great expense to us and them, and do not even know themselves as children of God. I know my own (step-children) think nothing of God or would consider spiritual intervention as a part of theirs or their own children’s lives. I imagine they would roll their eyes at the mention of taking their children to Sunday School or reading Bible stories to them. My daughter, due to her husband’s, in name only Italian/Catholicism, and as requested by his parents, had their son baptized in a church they’ve otherwise never entered before or since. I attended a shallow service, a check-that-square event to please the family followed by a more important lunch celebration. The priest who didn’t even know them performed the perfunctory service as if he actually provided them something of value. It was merely a continued tradition of “the family” but there was no deep-felt feeling of the nature of the experience. I observed it carried out almost with awkward embarrassment and a merely a feeling of duty to “the old folks” by the parents of the baby.

We, who know better, have failed ourselves and future generations. We have allowed God to dissolve into the background of our own lives in favor of political correctness of acceptance with our children and the woke-sponsored separation of church and state institutions demand and yet we wonder what’s wrong with our world and humanity. We bow to the media gospel, the increasingly inaccurate and ever-modified “science”, touted as truth which changes to suit the whims of politicians on both sides of the aisle (actually the same). We’re already victims of AI-generated propaganda served up by both sides; the same message, simply delivered in our preferred line of thinking, but with the same result. We have voluntarily given up our souls, our critical thinking, our inner, spiritual compass that connects us with God. Instead we have chosen to follow the golden idols of the moment, offering us immediate, convenient gratification and perceived acceptance within our current families and culture. We are lost and have forgotten who we are, forgotten the true meaning of our humanity as we justify the usefulness or irrelevance of others of our species, abusing and murdering God’s children and killing off our elders as they no longer serve a purpose as told to us by the new gods of science and government; they are useless eaters, no longer contributing to our shallow world of “thing acquisition” but simply wasting our precious resources. The population of human beings is a threat to the planet of things. There’s not enough to go around. We are basically removing those who impart the necessary soul impetus in us that we so desperately need to remind us of the reality of our human essence; newborn babies to instill joy at the magnificence of God’s creation, and the wisdom of our elders who have experienced all that life gives us and how we as spiritual beings need our faith and spirituality to coexist and thrive in this world of light and dark forces. We’ve been programmed to believe these human influences are no longer necessary; they are outdated and meaningless for our evolution as sentient, spiritual beings. We’ve replaced our spiritual intelligence with artificial intelligence(quite the oxymoron). We have basically spit in the face of God, our creator. It will not end well for his greatest creation.

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Ivan Iriarte's avatar

Yes... Unfortunately, science like so many things has become corrupted; and it has become - very inappropriately - a new religion (scientism). Since childhood, I always liked science. But science is just supposed to be a method to help us make observations and experimentations in an organized manner, to understand how the physical world works. Descartes, a long time ago declared that science does not apply to the non-physical reality. Mind you, he did not deny the reality of the non-physical world; he just said that we need to leave that study outside of science. But today, "they" want everything to be "supported by science"... even things of the physical world that are self-evident, and do not need to be backed by any "science". We know that if we put our hands on a hot stove we will get burned. Do we need a "randomized double-blind clinical trial" to prove that? Gimme a break. Obviously, the result is that we get a lot of "bad science"... We need to put science back where it belongs. It is just a useful tool to figure out some things.

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