Faith v. intellect

We need someone in politics or the universities or a religious leader who is strong enough to lead the Religious faithful to accept logic.

Some in a position of leadership and authority need to make the following points.

Religious faith is the cause of more deaths than ever before in our history. FAITH is just what the dictionary says: "belief in something for which there is no proof".

The evidence is now so strong, showing that God cannot get the same message to all faiths; and yet all faiths believe God is communicating with THEM.

History has shown that it has been mankind's desire to know; "Where do we come from". This has resulted in religious beliefs in various gods, until the one God idea of the Middle East gained strength in the Torah.

This god communicated with Mohammed and made a few changes.

Not logic but FAITH makes believers. It makes such strong believers that many Muslims are now committing suicide for their faith.

Then the Christian council of Trent decides; with God's help, what should go into the bible.

The Jews are no longer His chosen people, and that wonderful crutch of "all believers in Christ will be saved and have an afterlife," takes hold. Catholicism is the result but later God talks to Martin Luther and changes His mind again.

FAITH is required but not logic and millions more accept the new theology.

This all powerful God still can't get the same message to all and we have hundreds of nominations with differing moral standards.

A really big test of FAITH comes with the word to Joseph Smith that God has some more changes in His plan.

Millions of Mormons have the FAITH. It's the 21st century and there is plenty of evidence that the BIG Bang and Evolution are real.

There is no supernatural loving God out there who is going to solve

mankind's problems.

When that becomes an accepted fact and people rely on their intellect to solve problems we may learn to live together in peace.

Larry J. Kluth

Mesa, Arizona