Welcome to the weekly Third Degree: Tough, Brief, Weekly Interrogations on matters public and private that force thinking and response. This Sunday we target: Infallibility

  • What better day than this Easter Sunday to reaffirm the existence and utility and glory of the one true faith with its divine foundation of infallibility?
  • Assuming one would not believe in or follow an untrue faith or one that was fallible, while understanding that adherents certainly stray from espoused truth and are palpably fallible, doesn’t the primacy and attractiveness of your God (or Gods) in the ever-evolving pantheon of Gods seems essential to a one true faith?
  • With joyous Easter today, as well as, in full Masters-like swing, Passover and Ramadan, plus events from other Abrahamic tributaries, do we sense comity or competition?
  • Does conflicted copycatting concealed by centuries of contest and control cast any light on who’s right?
  • Who or what has bragging and assurance rights as to the top dog God?
  • Do numbers matter? Can the estimated 2.4 Billion Christians, 1.9 Billion Muslims, 15 MillionJews, 1.2 billion Hindus and 500 million Buddhists plus a billion two of non-believers plus another billion or so of various flavors including the Rastafari (Christians too, but you get to wear dreadlocks, smoke weed and be racist) provide any insight or assurance other than insistence and promises (and control) that “they is the truth and the way”?
  • If the God of choice is any less than omnipotent, omniscient , omni-present and, oh yes, infallible (should we throw in ‘rational’ as well ), and promising of great things, is there much chance of success in such a competitive landscape?
  • What techniques or methods of conversion and belief have triumphed over the millennia?
  • Are we confronted and comforted by a fulfilling and lifetime quest for that certain and true God buoyed by the faith of evidence unseen but sensed and sustaining?
  • Should we beware man or organization that claims infallibility, or so acts, but perverts and betrays making truth a liar by language and political manipulation?
  • If our freedom to practice a, non-violent, true religion is sacrosanct, then how important is political truth in our lives?
  • Should acceptance of political lies or deliberate obfuscation by the political gods and media be acceptable or tolerated?
  • Does a tyranny of power, fanning flames of division and passing the buck, while claiming innocence and infallibility, put faith and nation at risk?
  • Can infallible believers in American idealism, without illusion, renew faith and trust throughout the land and beyond?
  • By their acts shall we know them and ourselves too?

Socrates reminds: “The unexamined life is not worth living”. The answers and actions remain yours.