This Web Log is dedicated to a useful combination of faith and reason. By faith, I mean religion, or God. By reason, I mean the world as relating to or dealing with existence (especially with human existence), sometimes termed science. For many, reason/science has overcome faith in a way drastically summed up by Nietzsche’s mad man in The Gay Science (German: Die fröhliche Wissenschaft) :
Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the marketplace, and cried incessantly, “I seek God! I seek God!” As many of those who do not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter…
Whither is God,” he cried. “I shall tell you. We have killed him – you and I. All of us are murderers…. God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him…
Nietzsche did not mean literally “God,” but rather the Christian beliefs that had been the basis of European culture for nearly 2,000 years and which stemmed from Jewish culture of 5,000 years. Science/human technological proficiency since the Age of Reason was taking the place of Judeo-Christian beliefs, and the “mad man” of Nietzsche’s book was desperately alarmed by this.
In the year 2009, we are experiencing in America, the West, and ultimately the Global Community (as occurring through the globalization of the economy) the most advanced state of belief in the idea that science appropriately replaces the “myth” of God and its related values. It is the purpose of this Web Log to promote that only the marriage of “faith and reason” will lead to the most constructive society, and that the sole use of science and human technology as man’s guide will lead only to a more efficient deterioration and destruction of a world worth living in.
Granted that this is a fairly comprehensive theme, I will touch on topics from the sublime to the ridiculous. Both the comic and the tragic theatre masks, and many in between, will be appearing.
