Chapter 34: Religion from First Principles

 

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Religion from First Principles

 

The ‘splitters’ split religions, but we need to build one religion, and it can be done, so I am going to outline a religion from first principles and show that the Rule of Life has brought the religions to where they should be, but with too much ‘baggage’. This is the result of Survival of the Fittest being used on the Churches instead of Reality (getting along with others). Once the ‘bare bones’ of ‘first principles’ are pointed out, it becomes obvious what is necessary, and what is ‘baggage’ that can be got rid of, over time.

 

The Rule of Life states that for organisms over time, chemistry becomes more complicated to better compete, and form becomes simpler to better compete, given that no regression is possible. Thus, our mind/brains must be based on the Mathematics of the Mind, which I derived from first principles. I used the Mathematics of the Mind and the operators truth/existence/reality to determine the three Laws of Life: firstly, componentization, iteration and time passing which align with creation (God); secondly, state of mind, exercise and nutrition which aligns with our living within the world (the Holy Spirit); thirdly, the young must be taught to ‘fit’ into the family and the world in general, (the Son).

 

The three laws generally align with the operators truth/existence/living with others (reality shows this form when applied to life) and these could be classed as one God, or three parts of God to help the understanding. That is, One God, or the Trinity, depending on your choice. Combining this with existence (in a probability of existence space) as determined from first principles defines that we evolved a reality that, by necessity evolved a religion because all tribes use a creation myth, which is logically necessary to specify the tribe’s laws and the family’s requirements and responsibilities.

Notice that I have used two different methods in this derivation, firstly that God needs three words to describe God’s essence (operators from top down) and three laws to describe God’s works (bottom up)!

 

It is important that the Holy Spirit has been found and recognized, because It has been ‘lost’ for thousands of years, and relates to the second Law. A religion derived from first principles contains ONLY the essentials, and that is, as both Christianity and Islam were, in the beginning, before religion was ‘organised’. The Rule of Life has brought out (of the Old Testament and a multitude of writings) the core religion that was necessary to explain creation, how to live in and care for your environment and people around you, and thirdly, what to teach the young and instil a family life (the three Laws of Life). Notice that the Churches have nothing to fear from science, as shown here, because they are within different laws.

 

It has been mentioned in Chapter 18: Finding God Through One Religion, that Muhammad believed that he was in agreement with both the New and Old Testament. Further, I suggested that each Religion use a core that all religions can agree upon, and keep the extra stories, miracles, parables etc. that give their particulate Religion ‘flavour’, separate, until they can be incorporated into a ‘whole’ single religion.

 

The Churches has been functioning for thousands of years and will continue in the same tradition because the churches are using Survival of the Fittest, which is a backwards-looking indicator. The use of reality (getting on with everybody) is a forward-looking indicator and along with the Mathematics of the Mind produces predictions, and those predictions form the future of the Churches and the planet.

 

Everyone knows that we are heading for Armageddon with Global Warming, over-population, lack of food production etc. Everyone knows what must be done, and that is control the population, control carbon dioxide and a few other things like one religion. I have mentioned how this could be done, but, without leadership, it might have to be a popular movement through the Forever Club (as religions started).

 

This is a short chapter, concise and to the point. Religions are necessary and they are on the correct path, but it is obvious what is needed to bring the different religions together in the future, and it is NOT the basics, it is the organization! Literally, the future of the world is at stake, and that is the Holy Spirit! ‘The sacredness of the Holy Spirit is affirmed in all three Synoptic Gospels which proclaim blasphemy against the Holy Spirit as the unforgivable sin.’ (Wikipedia, Holy Spirit (Christianity) That makes sense, in that it is the unforgivable sin to destroy the environment around you, that your very life depends on, and yet, that is what we are doing!