The End Game

I am feeling distressed. I have been having these haunting feelings about our current circumstance. I wonder how history will record this time.

From afar, I fear it will not be a pretty picture. History will report the strong beginnings of a ideological war between Christiandom and Islam. Christiandom is torn by its own ideological and culture war. The battle between Christiandom and Islam is, at its core, a struggle over competing irrational beliefs. Each claim to possess a revealed truth based upon faith rather than fact.

The battle inside Christiandom is a battle between those who claim to live a fact based reality and those who live a life built upon illusion.

The United States Presidential election of 2008 looks to be the cleave between those two factions. On the one hand is a man who represents a complex multi-cultural world; a man who clearly possesses a deep personal spiritual faith. He yearns to bring people together; to find common ground. On the other hand is a man who panders to the illogical faith of a few; who has little spiritual grounding in his own life, and spreads a message of lies and illusion.

The outcome of this election could be a pivot point. If it is won by the man of illusion, the future appears to filled with fear and demagoguery. The powerful interests will throw cultural bones to the irrational core of their constituency.

I hope and pray that there are enough clear headed voters to enable us to cling to a fact based reality and stave off the forces of fear and illusion.