I had a waking dream today. I had seen an online post from someone asking about religion. They were thinking of moving away from Christian faith, as they no longer felt connected to it. They wanted to know about another faith, or any faith really, that had meetings in their neighborhood.

Of course their question spawned a slew of “Jesus is the only way,” “don’t give up on Jesus!” and so on. I didn’t respond to these people. It would be pointless.

Later on, I decided to get in my car and get a coffee. An audio book I was listening to came on… it was the book, “Horus Rising,” a Warhammer novel. It went for a min or so and then it directly discussed the situation I just encountered. The passage below is a character in the fictional story. His name is Sinderman and he is addressing an audience of students:

“‘To sum up, for I’ve been speaking far too long, this recent episode allows us to observe genuine blood and sinew beneath our philosophy. The truth we convey is the truth because we can say it is the truth. Is that enough?’ He shrugged, ‘I don’t believe so. My truth is better than your truth is a schoolyard squabble, not the basis of a culture. I am right, so you are wrong is a syllogism that collapses once one applies any of a number of fundamental and ethical tools. I am right ergo you are wrong, we can’t construct a constitution on that and we can not, should not , will not, be persuaded to iterate on its basis. It would make us what?’ He looked out across his audience, a number of. hands were raised. ‘There,’ ‘Liars.’ Sinderman smiled… ‘I was thinking bullies or demigods, but liars is apt. in fact it cuts deeper than my suggestions. Well done. Liars. That is the one thing we iterators can never allow ourselves to become.”

The Waking Dream

What eloquence in reference to such dialogue as, “a schoolyard squabble.”

Imagine a fictional work about a future where all is war and death… and tuning in at this moment to hear a reference to a situation I just encountered. This is Light. This is a teaching. It is not the praising of a character, it is the statement above, while in the moment I am experiencing.

The answer to his question… what does this type of thinking make us? “Liars.”