Thought for the day

Subject: Thought for the day.

We can't conceive of god without conceiving ourselves and we conceive ourselves without the power of the mind and thought. God's influence, if it is there at all is in his teachings not his creative ability since we have long supplanted the idea of god's creation with the idea of nature selecting a way to develop the multitude of variables we see around us.

Religion therefore struggles to find a place except that religion which is gained as a early foothold in man's reasoning and which places fear at its pinnacle  (not love), for not acknowledging god. The unknown specter of death on our departing this reasoned philosophical world lies deep within us and reconciling our lives with death is difficult..

The conflict we have is in imagining our brain, which is very much anchored in ourselves, thinking thoughts which appear outside our sphere of intimacy and experience and the question therefore is does god exist in this external minds eye, rooted in speculation and supposition. Can a god of divine power be bypassed by the assembly of random thoughts or is there a synthesis in our overall thinking  which includes god and excludes free will. Do our thoughts have a divine progenitor or are they random and individually ours.. Does the sum of all our random thoughts, each individuals thinking amount to a mind blowing extension of that individuality, or are we simply living in an oasis of self containment.

Descartes' universal doubt, that we can't be sure of anything leaves us in an almighty impasse if we wish to believe in an ordained plan. There has to be an assumption that you have answers but if you can't form the questions through your ignorance then philosophy and understanding comes to a grinding halt and with it religion in so far as religion has to be understood like anything else.

Locke's argument that intellectual and moral principles, thought to be the foundation stone of our human behaviour and recognised as such in our infancy are only understood by a very few through teaching. This then exposes the thought that we learn our principe behaviour through experience and not Divine intervention. Is it any wonder given the wide range of individualised experiences we have, that common policy, as it effects humans is impossible other than in a most generalised way. To formulate general principles through 'rights' is equally preposterous.