Praying To a More Modern God

LIFE IS a spiritual journey for us all, with many changes of direction along the way. As we age, new insights can come. This can lead to crises of faith, as it has, for example, to more than one Mormon, and for doubtless many folks of other faiths. The story, isn't it, is that Joesph Smith dug up, in up state New York, golden scripture, in, wasn't it 1820? Then came the Mormon church, and the whole saga. May the dear Lord bless and keep them folks. Now, of course, that scripture is God's word, right? The Book of Mormon? There's a story in it, I think, about someone using a steel sword in ancient times, long before steel was invented, which was in the nineteenth century. Seems almost as if the Book of Mormon was written in the nineteenth century, then buried. (if you didn't know better). Anachronism! Well, if it was written by God, interesting way for God to write it. Sort of like saying in the Christian Bible that the world is flat, that when Christ returns the stars will fall from the sky like little glass trinkets, the value of pi is three even, and if your child talks back, you should kill him or her. Interesting Almighty writing, to be sure. To my way of thinking, barbaric. In reference to the Catholic church, Voltaire, aka Francoise Marie Arouet, ejaculated: "crush the infamous thing!" And really, why not? Clean the slate, take it from the top, uptempo. Start from scratch. Only this time, inject logic and modern cosmic understanding into the whole thing. Like Carl Sagan said, the Christian religion, the vision of the universe given in the Bible, is simply too small. It doesn't even extend out to the rest of the solar system, let alone the galaxy, or the billions of other galaxies throughout what we humans like to call, "the universe". Let us bow our heads and pray to the four forces of nature, to their eventual hoped for messianic unification, and to the infinite galactic panorama, their humming atoms, their grand voyage away from each other, and the infinitely superior spirit which instigated it all!