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Thomas
Jefferson
had encountered great difficulty in the establishment of the first
University in American that was not church/religiously sponsored or
related. He obviously had the properly conceived notion that in
the presence of religions with their consistent and doggedly insistence
that the truth
lies only within those narrowly defined tenets of its own mythological faith, it would
be virtually impossible to achieve a true atmosphere of free thought and new
discovery. That far more than noble effort of Thomas Jefferson resulting
in the founding of the University of Virginia was the quintessential
essence of that ideal socio-political circumstance where there would exist
a distinct separation of the church and its mostly conservative ideologies
from that of a modern civil state that rightly fosters individual
achievement and growth over which there should be NO moral authority.
Only in that ideal of circumstances would it be at all possible to
actually have what is aptly called freedom of religion wherein
every single individual remains equally imbued with the freedom to pursue the truth according
to his own beliefs and personals needs. As a great man of letters, I
am very confident that Thomas Jefferson, in the light of modern day
knowledge and scientific realities, would be amusingly appalled at the
present state of affairs where so many individuals still so blindly hold
fast to these embellished religious mythologies that have been so totally
challenged and dispelled by modern discoveries and science dramatically
beginning with those far-reaching theories of Nicolaus Copernicus
(1473-1543) and that were so dramatically confirmed by Galileo Galilei
(1564-1642) with his masterful and most timely invention and use of the
telescope to further explore and comprehend the vast scope of our
universe. For Galileo's courageous contribution to the knowledge of
his day that we were NOT the center of the universe and therefore most
likely not the singular focus of creation, he was hastily placed under
'house arrest' by the head of the Catholic Church, and that atrocious and
malign decree was only lifted in the last decade of the Twentieth Century,
some three hundred and fifty years after his death. Reality has not
changed in its essence from the very first time that man began to explore
his ever-expanding universe; the difficulty lies with man's ability or inability to
successfully and realistically integrate his antiquated mythologies
with the hard sciences of our modern times. The beginning of any age of mankind is
appropriately marked not with just the simple discovery of some
undiscovered reality that had always existed, but most appropriately when
the tangible fruits of that revelation or discovery have actually entered
the mainstream of mankind's day-to-day world. From our own Western
culture perspective, the singular event that might well mark the beginning
of this great Age of Reality could possibly be focused on Pope John Paul
II, when on October 31, 1992, the Vatican 'revisited' its initial
indictment of Galileo's confirmation of Copernicus' take on our universe's
heavenly bodies and their actual relationship to earth. Mankind and
his innate noble spirit, has for too long, been held totally captive of these
archaic and notoriously oppressive religions and their often-time radical
leaders who too frequently subjugate that very loving nature that every
individual man and woman should be equally and universally heir to. We are
so very fortunate to be living in an age of such magnanimous discovery.
In most every instance mankind continues to challenge the spiritual
impact of these discoveries and in too few
cases might even be able to successfully dispel many of those conservatively
held points of view. There is in reality nothing new under our own life-giving
sun and mankind has only to accept and broaden his fundamental knowledge
of what is already most evident in nature. Mankind is fortuitously
leaving the very infancy of his spirituality and with this immerging
maturity mankind is entering this most
progressive Age of Reality, most notably with or without the blessings of
many of our world religions. These multitude of spiritually oppressive
churches, temples, and mosques need not be totally dismissed or even left
behind in the dust of discovery; they should, however, all come clean
about the bogus claims of their mythologies and truly
become more spiritually relevant to the real needs of their congregations. I would
suppose that this metamorphose could be
easily achieved by simply redefining their various spiritual and social
roles to reflect an ideology that truly and sincerely fosters the love and
acceptance of all mankind as well as the infinitely magnanimous beauty of
this naturally occurring diversity of mankind that has been manifested in this
wonderful Garden of Eden. This great diversity also carries with it
the reality that not all individuals will posses either the desire or
ability to recognize and accept the fundamental precepts of this
wonderfully freeing age; they are equally free to experience their own
life's joy in any manner they see fit. To those individuals who
are freed by the truth of this fundamental end I most humbly
dedicate these six modest treatises, that in each instance and in their own
unique manner affirmatively proclaim that mankind has already embarked on
that arduous journey that will eventually bring us entirely into this
wonderful AGE
OF REALITY. J. Lamah Walker |
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October 31, 1992 John Paul II received in audience the Pontifical Academy of the Sciences. The Academy presents to the Holy Father the conclusions reached by the "Commission for the Study of the Ptolemaic-Copernican Controversy, which was duly instituted by John Paul II on 3 June 1981 to "provide to the world of science and culture the long-awaited response in merit to the case of Galileo Galilei." |
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