People need religion. We have an inherent need to connect on a
spiritual level. It's why Natives
danced around a fire at night singing. It's why ancients fed virgins to the volcano. For past two thousand
years or so in the Western part of Earth, the story of a Son of God has dominated the
landscape but lately that myth has deconstructed under scandal and exposed hypocrisy.
So Western Earthlings are now
searching for new spiritual guidance.
Enter Capitalism and American
Ideals.
We reach out using whatever institutions we do have, since we no longer have a common religion, and lately Americans have come up with a reverence for capitalism that could be even more
dangerous than religious fanaticism. Over recent decades, we've redirected our need for spirit to the American
dream and assigned assigned god-like powers to profit and a free market, made Ronald Reagan a saint.
No, God is not the marketplace. Sit still and listen to silence, say Om
quietly to yourself. The universe will show you the real spirit if you look for
it inside yourself, you won't find it on Fox News no matter how reverent Megyn
Kelly sounds as she asks each Republican presidential candidate if he or she talks
to God. Aaarrgh
-Kay Ebeling
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