In a way, it’s nice to look along the landscape and see the number of people who’ve suddenly turned skeptic, at least as far as any level o government. It’s sad as well that people have awoken to the absolute fact that the guvrtnment is riddled with liars looking out for whose best inyerest? During a National Emergency? Certainly not their public. Those for whom they took an oath to protect.

How easy is it for those to coose thei own minds, after examining the evidence, even when being told rhar evidence isn’t real and those spreading these “theories” are at best, just wrong in their judgement, and worst case? Delusional. This is important because it impacts one of the sacred rails of public service: health care.

If we can look upon health care and government response during a “pandemic”, shouldn’t we be able to use the same reasoning and evidence gathering toward other aspects of our life that could be considered as harmful, if not more. The difference is the first is a belief borne by science, the latter is a belief, based upon…belief?

Why is ir so difficult for us to recognize that it’s possible that religious belief is based upon a lie and thar it has always been a way for the powerful to retain that power. Look at history, even recent fot proof. Does anyone really believe people would have them take not only their own, but others lives as well? Before jumping to conclusions concerning what or who I am referring to, take a long, deep look at yourself.

I was a True Believer at one time. A Christian. And although my countenance showed one aspect, my true self held contempt for those that disagreed or ignored my chosen faith. That’s right: Chosen. Sure I was raised in a “Christian” household, but that was certainly by tradition and not by action. Don’t get me wrong, by every measurement, I was a nice guy. And maybe that’s where doubt began to come into my life. I can’t give anyone a specific date or event, but there it was, slowly eating away at somethind I considered immutable: my faith.

I began educating myself outside the auspices of any church and something I discovered was that there is an entire school of those that had similar doubts. We never heard about them, and rarely do even now because they’re considered outside mainstream biblical scholarship. What constitutes the “mainstream”? Those thar may have some doubts as to the authenticity o scripture do make up a part, but those are still at some level, believers. Call them possibly agnostic. Possibly. The remainder do not question any of the authenticity of “the word” even though the transcripts they have to use as proof are dozens, if not hundreds of years from the original source. In other words, copies. Not just copies, but copies, of copies, of…you get it. To the degree where it’s impossible to know the authors intent.

So why is it so difficult for the average person to look at any religious belief with some level of skepticism? Think about it. I do and will come back to this topic more specifically, soon.