Because I am at one with my thoughts, how could anyone who values my thoughts ever expect to be anything less than at one with me?
How can someone at one with my thoughts ever expect me to feel anything but oneness with them, along with the sense of holding like-value in their eyes?
Religion says you don't HAVE to value any of my thoughts, except they first be translated and repackaged in accords with whatever views were previously held concerning what it is that I reveal. A new order isn't something authorities of the old order willingly concede to, so the old is removed to make place for the new.
Just the announcement of the new has already brought the old to an end. The unveiling of the new was the announcement of the old's end. Whatever is impartial, incomplete, immature, or imperfect fades in glory and passes away from our attention. The new is what rises to the top.
The former things, already obsolete, may yet have defenders . Those in defense of the old are mainly those who've for so long seen themselves as having been advantaged as a result of things being the old way. These are they who fear great loss of clout, authority, prestige, notoriety and wealth will inevitably follow the establishment of the new over them. These rebels, allegiant to the old, contentiously persist in it's contrary speech against the messengers of the new. In many guises, some entertaining, some irritating, many in the guise of teachers of morality and loud denouncers of excess, selfishness, and vain living. The messengers of the old always hope to show up and revive a context by which it'd be possible to degrade and call into question the reliability of the messengers of this faultless message.
As unattractive and horrid as martyrdom may be, and as unnecessary as it today is, having already accomplished it's purpose through the lives of those chosen by God for that purpose, men who sent us letters announcing the new, and who signed those letters in their blood. Men with the ability and the authority to overpower death, who instead willingly entered the belly of the whale, the furnace, and the lions den in demonstration of their faith. The new has been announced in a language louder than words.
Those who've believed the message themselves prove the message, as the message is incarnate in them. Yet, the message is true apart from those who believe it so that even those who do not believe are equally included in it. The destruction of a messenger of truth doesn't even scratch Truth's cheek. So the old order, bible in hand, seek to exploit mankind's ignorance of their redeemed innocence as a result of the obedience of the one, but pointing out the guilt that follows as a result of the disobedience of another. God demonstrates His foreknowledge in that the obedience of the one SUPERSEDES and erases the significance of the disobedience of the other, as the obedience of the one included the all.
Whoever the representative of the old may be, and however attractive their fading glory may be: We've got more behind us that he's got ahead of him. -f
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