Our upbringing puts an indelible mark on us and mine was as a Roman Catholic, Baptism, Communion, alter boy and Catholic School. I grew up with a clear framework of right and wrong, good and bad. My teachers attempted to instill in me the rules to follow to live a good life. I learned about the holy trinity an idea I later learned was the basis of the scientific concept that an identity can be represented in multiple ways. A human is not only a being but a system of organs and a collection of cells.

Sometimes the child grows up to challenge the parent and the logic of science presented a conflict with my faith based education. The two were not in contradiction for the unknowable could coexist with the knowable but it did render some the conclusions of our ancestors false. Santa Clause does exist in the hearts and minds of our children and will be immortalized with future generations we just know that an expedition team traveling north will not discover the North Pole.

I grew up with the idea of God was a middle aged white guy with a beard, around my age. It because nebulous when you added in the Holy Spirit and God the Father born in our image but never growing older or getting sick. this concept challenged me when you accepts that man’s appearance is evolving through evolution and he is represented in different gender and race.

This reconciles if you considered our image to be the immortal coil of our chromosomes that we receive from our parents and pass down to our children. The teaching two thousand years ago would have had difficulty explaining this to primitive people of the earth. In principle there is much similarity between evolution and religion.

Religion teaches us to place God and Family above ourselves and science presents our being as a container passing down our genes to future generations. Yet it seems that faith has attempted to sell this concept of selflessness by offering the preservation of our complete being—chromosome and consciousness — in a life everlasting. If life is about self preservation we don’t need God.

The more you learn the more you must marvel at the miracle. The beauty of how the world is put together inspires love. To love yourself is not to ruthlessly promote its preservation but to look within at the myriad of components you consist of.—Organs, cells and thoughts shared with the human race and the entire world. The love of God, for me, is the appreciation of the all encompassing world we live in.

The posting would not be complete without some thoughts on love between people. People primarily express love for a mate or family. To love is to truly accept attributes of another living being—courage, visage, intellect. With our family we share ancestry and see within our siblings’ attribute of ourselves which we work to preserve. With a mate we have the opportunity to combine those attributes with other admired traits. Not an easy task findingg love in others but we are compelled to procreate by our biology. A child merges these forces of love propelling our genes towards immortality.

On that note I will conclude this posting and direct myself to cleaning up my apartment for I am expecting family and joy of love.