Narrow Way Cafe

Religion is a pyramidal apex from which institutionally convenient “wisdom” trickles down. The rules of morality.

400 years of the Inquisition demonstrates how that works, quite well. Greed and the lust for power over others is an indelible tradition, trained into princes through the generations.

So morality probably requires a higher power as a basis for consensus – whether agreement be forced or not. The apex requires an occupant.

On the other hand, nature itself suggests inalienable rights that form a basis for respect, boundaries, sufficiency and sustainability that reflect the dignity and equality of life. And such are those rights that they are self-evident to all alive; they do not require institutional interpretation. The unindoctrinated cannot not swing to provoke artificial dominance.

But our species will abuse either, Morality or Nature — and so we do. We learn to aspire and acquire. Covet. We want and take, and only unwillingly limit our consumption when depletion impoverishes.

Self-evident beauty of life rests gracefully upon peaceful glades of woods, passing undisturbed in balance.

Whereas horror falls on our avenues torn by crime and warfare, agony crowing over death in ruins.

We choose which we will have.

.. and God has little to do with it. We have the power to make a garden of our gifts or perpetrate the ruin of this world.

Morality will never prevent the latter. It’s oxymoronic to think that ‘good people’ succeed, because morality flows from an apex of institutionalized thinking. A seat where there is room for only one.