So we hear a lot of questioning as to what is right and what is wrong. And how to know the difference. Even though truth is one, our understanding thereof evolves, and there are more ways than one to approach it. Truth is, the earth is a circular planet. It took us time to understand this. It went from being ’round’ to being ‘spherical’. Last I checked it is now ‘an oblate spheroid’. The falsehood is that it is flat. Therefore, a truth is a truth, and a falsehood is a falsehood, regardless of if and when we make the distinction, and certainly regardless of whether we recognise it or not. The earth retains its natural shape, irrespective of you and me.

Therefore, virtue, or any truth, must needs be independent of us. Though our circumstance may affect our perception, it remains independently true.

Accepting something, anything as true and/or positive,simply because we are in a society that does, has been an integral part of every societal debacle.

Succumbing to what our environment holds to be true, be it due to political/peer pressure, political correctness, the result of group-think, etc..would make it alright to engage in anti Jewish pogroms 70 years ago in Germany, own a couple of black slaves in the Americas 200 years ago, or subscribe to ‘unions’ of a bestial nature in some parts of northern India today, or paedophiliac ones in some parts of Eastern Africa, or homosexual ones in parts of Europe. Point being, geographically, and historically, humans have flawed and swayed, due to lack of a common base/an all-encompassing moral compass/a code of virtue.

My contention, which shall be referred to throughout these monographs if you will, is that nothing besides science and religion, is worthy of making up this moral compass. Science explains the technical aspect, and religion the moral one. We are speaking of unabused, and unadulterated science and religion here. For one without the other is incomplete, but together, they are the source of unending good. We cannot discredit science because two scientists had a conflict, anymore than we can religion due to so-called religious people having issues one with another. As afore-mentioned, the truth stands!

And according to these, I would be safe through time and space,throughout geography and history, knowing full well that slavery, religious prejudice, and illicit sexual practices are wrong, no matter WHERE or WHEN I may be! The fact that such firm and moral individuals always have existed, and always will, shows it is an uphill but feasible task. People like every scientist, and revolutionary, have held this attribute.

Simple people like this gent below,

http://all-that-is-interesting.com/august-landmesser

it is not okay, simply because it is accepted, or legal, or politically correct, or the norm, or society as a whole approves. Be a rock. Not a leaf. A rock stands for what is right, based on the common foundation that is made of science and religion,and no river however tumultuous can thwart its stance. A leaf sways wherever the trend blows…

God bless.