2 SCIENCE IS BLESSED

We are all familiar with the Christian groups who advocate Creationism and claim their views alone to be "right with the Lord. Because of the volume of their rhetoric, it is easy for the uninformed to assume that Christianity is fundamentally in opposition to science (or using the brain in any way) for we are aware that the official Church was against Galileo and Darwin in their times. That assumption would be just as valid as assuming that the United States now supported slavery because most of the founding fathers were slave owners.

The fact that Christianity has had many running bouts with the insanity and unfaithfulness of feeling threatened by knowledge just shows how far we have drifted from our Jewish roots and have blatantly chosen to ignore and abuse their writings. Judaism has always known that our minds are part of the HOLY, that WISDOM is an integral part of God's Spirit, calling to us from the streets and fields, urging us to hear, to seek, to explore and find ourselves within the total picture of God's Creation and Being.

Among Jews, there has never been a question that science and knowledge were unholy. How knowledge was applied? Now THAT could and should be questioned! But to not inquire? Silly! Jesus of Nazareth was best known as a teacher and urged others to think for themselves. In his name, that is the least we can do.

The most important area of inquiry in the Jewish understanding was regarding scripture itself. "Study is the highest form of worship" is a saying from the Talmud. Question everything, we are told, for in questioning, along with experience, comes understanding and hence, faithfulness to God and growing in love.

To grow as spiritual beings we must identify our needs to inquire, to share, to debate with and explore with others, regarding all that touches our lives. Let us mourn those who ignore this aspect of their holiness and let us oppose those who try to limit it in others, for nothing is more in opposition to Love and Life. And let us use our wits to find out how this aberration was born, what is feeding it and do our best to love it to death.

It is most important to use our minds in considering everything from this point on. Two thousand years ago Judaism and then Christianity were known to be the faiths of thinking and educated people. Don't you hesitate to throw out and reject beliefs and traditions if they are keeping you from growing. For you, they are evil.

If these points cause you to think and ponder, I have done well. You are being a child of God just by answering the Call to Wisdom. Don't worry about anything else.