By A Mortal Man
Our English word ‘pray’ comes to us from Latin ‘precari’ meaning “to ask earnestly, to beg, to entreat” which strongly implies the relationship between a high god and his or her supplicating subjects is one of high power versus low power.
Few practitioners of Abrahamic religions ever feel it is their ‘place’ to judge God (Yahweh Allah, etc.).
In such authoritarian religions God is considered so sacred that anything he, it, her, or other feels is righteous is not to be questioned, but rather assumed as righteous, and his subjects are left to only obey his commands—even when those commands seem morally reprehensible. After all no mere mortal man can presume to know and understand the ways and means of an all knowing and all-powerful supernatural entity. Talk about un-mitigating absolute power.
Talk about the authoritarian possibilities to wreak havoc on other entities or souls within the universe—given there was some motive to do so.
And there’s the rub.
Who is to decide when a voice or an order given is that of another mere mortal with dubious motives or a supernatural High God; especially since even the history of Judeo-Christianity is one long dispute as to who is the real creator God and who is not, as in who speaks for the real high power and what disinformation is coming from the heretical or so-called Satanic orders?
One fact that many readers will agree on is that the history of Judeo-Christianity is one long debate on what is real religion and what is bad religion. Any historian of religion, no matter how mediocre or biased will likely agree to this one fact.
So it is not just a matter of being a believer or not but exactly to what one chooses to believe, and this already implies that mortals are in the business of choosing what religious principles, doctrines and values they believe or have faith in.
So far so good. But it is hard to find a more controversial subject than religious believe precisely because it means so much to one’s moral convictions and personal welfare (including one’s soul welfare as in one’s spiritual life after one’s death). There is a lot on the line and therefore people get edgy and sometimes intolerant quite quickly.
Moreover, it is the very attitudes and thinking about one’s motives and actions that often determine one’s innocence or guilt—be it legal or religious. One’s soul is inevitably involved in making choices about not just behaviors and motives, and reasons on moral dilemmas.
Even so-called Bible-thumpers have very different views on what is considered politically correct religion. Being religiously correct is so important it is directly tied to whether one is going to be saved and redeemed or not (or whether one’s very soul suffers eternal damnation). You really can’t get more serious than that.
Note: What is the saying about Where Angels Fear to Tread? From the Internet: Foolish people are often reckless, attempting feats that the wise avoid. This saying is from “An Essay on Criticism,” by Alexander Pope.
Another Note on the word ‘angel’ (a very powerful player in the drama of religion and faith): basically Angel is from Late Latin angelus, from Greek angelos, literally “messenger, envoy, one that announces,” in the New Testament “divine messenger,”.
This role message bringer could be almost anyone who has some message to another so many mere mortals could and do act in this capacity daily. Frankly, any writer, speech writer, diplomat, intelligence and military officer, journalist, etc. can be ascribed in the role of a messenger, but frankly we readers want to pay attention to those messengers who have very important and pertinent messages that are composed of truth and validity!
For example, there are literally hundreds of thousands of humans trying to get there messages out there on the Internet all competing against each other via social media and various websites, but it takes a facile and subtle mind to be able to determine what is important reality versus sidetracking red herrings and disinformation.
Note: ‘disinformation’ is deliberate deceit and there is an enormous amount of disinformation activity affecting our minds on a daily basis. The word ‘deceit’ according to Etymology Online Dictionary comes from the Middle Ages and older: [c. 1300, “trickery, treachery, lying,” from Old French deceite, fem. past participle of deceveir, decevoir, from Latin decipere “to ensnare, take in, beguile, cheat,” from de “from” or pejorative (see de-) + capere “to take,”] …
To take one down as in to be dis-empowered with truth.
THIS, MY FRIENDS, THIS THING CALLED DECEIT, IS THEE NAME OF THE GAME.
CALL IT THE GREAT BRITTISH GAME OR NOT (IT’S MUCH OLDER). Deceit is a strategy in biological species for survival that existed before what we call human history. Various species use tricks to fool their prey.
Generally, we mere humans, on average, underestimate the capacity and the influential affluence of deceit. We have come to the habit of trusting too many we assume are authority figures, and we cannot imagine that, for example, mainstream media news people would be deliberately lying to us. BUT IT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME AND HAS HAPPENED FOR DECADES AND DECADES.
So we all have a problem. If it can be argued that deceit is readily used in real history as a tool of influence, then how can we know that those who claim to speak for a God, or Yahweh, etc., for example, are not really pretending to push their less than sacred positions onto the rest of the world?
Most of us assume Benjamin Netanyahu is not himself a sacred God, and yet he does not defer from using ancient Biblical arguments for his politics of the day which are extremist to say the least.
A concept that is not frequently associated with the semantics of the word Angel is the word ‘intelligence’, and we readily need to note a difference between Intelligence as a national security occupation and intelligence as a biological reality implicit in all of nature’s survival—namely “dealing with information” viably and cogently.
Guaranteed there are one hundred books written on angel lore but few really focus on those attributes that are so central, namely the capacity to comprehend information, to rely it, and the capacity to effectively take appropriate actions to solve problems. Unlike God or Yahweh mere humans, like all species, have to deal with problems to survive and they operate on information or intelligence. You do not need to be the Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations to function as a de facto Intelligence Angel spouting all manner of cliché and hyperbole.
And this is why we mortals need to distinguish between the various nuances of what too many readily lump together as the same meaning—namely the Devil. We need a course on the various meanings and words that readily apply to religious dogma (doctrine) to appreciate the nuances of so called ‘Satanic’ manifestations.
Note: the word and notion ‘contemplate’ evolved to us as human language (there is no divine language as language is especially a human reality) via 1590s, “reflect upon, ponder, study, view mentally, meditate,” from Latin contemplatus, past participle of contemplari “to gaze attentively, observe; consider, contemplate,” originally “to mark out a space for observation” because it comes from “within the temple” con and Temple.
Guaranteed, it does not matter what specific college degrees you can claim or what levels of stature you can claim this is about the real work of intelligence—finding the truth (against all the lies permeating and flooding society) and you do not have to have an achieved title to do such work. You do not have to have a specific degree or title or position of power.
Ryan Cristian, at his super great website: The Last American Vagabond. Com is one on the best souls piecing together the truth about good and evil. As far as I know he does not have any special training in investigative reporting (I do not know him except from listening to his podcasts and videos). But I will advocate this: He is one of the most important voices in regards to politics, and especially of late his podcasts on what is going on in Gaza and Palestine.
***** TheLastAmericanVagabond.Com *****
Nobody accessible on the Internet does better Intelligence than Ryan Cristian and if you are not paying attention to all his research and detailed opinion then you are losing out.
He is an angel.
Amen