Syllabus: humans are by nature all opportunistic; the concept of any nature of God has been vanquished by 20^th century physics, namely the special theory of relativity, the chaos theory, and the Big Bang theory in global relativity theoretics. So many people going on and on about such exact physical sciences, so many educators droning on in a priori presumption such theories are perfect, and thus such global impact on cultures having been made, face it…only a simpleton believes in God, any faith, any spirituality; handcuff, eradicate, or regulate spiritualists to protect dumb people from predators and rabble-rousers competing with more aggressive opportunistic competitors. Being good requires simply choice and measuring only by the needs or edicts of the day since a lifetime is all there is.

 Ontology-Based Metaphysical Reflection Upon Physics Of Syllabus

 The referenced physics theories certainly are relied upon by many atheists; at the same time, such theories support a certain Protestant and other religious modern concept known as noninterventionist strategy…i.e., God only created everything but ever-after has refrained from any special acts or miracles, yet God concurrently acts at particular moments without violating the laws of nature.

The blatant circular logic of noninterventionist strategy seems plain: it is senseless to say God stays out completely yet somehow gets a message(s) through to some people. As such strategy seems more a purely comparative religious cloy against the Catholic and similar faiths believing in miracles, I abandon further consideration of it except to note it supports a notion of human opportunism. 

The main points of relevant physics appear to be:

First, the special theory of relativity: measurements of distance and time vary from different perspectives upon the observer’s relative motion. Proponents of this block theory of the universe deny the existence of God’s eternal “NOW”, questioning the nature of Divine eternity and creaturely temporality.

As a stand-alone genre of educational and book-selling attack on the idea God is constantly “tuning in” on the world, the theory of relativity where used in such attack weakens due to fact we don’t know HOW God watches (or if God has human distance limitations); to “explain” God’s lack of viewership interest under Einstein’s theory, decades later physics pioneers like Edward Lorenz evolved the second relevant theory…the chaos theory of determinism.

Chaos theory basically sets forth that without need of any God, any absolutely precise input will yield an absolutely precise output most of the time, except for occasional deterministic chaos giving rise to random behavior; where a novelty emerges it has to be a re-arrangement of something commonly existent or it will be so unstable/unsuited it can’t persist…unless a decoherence effect causes it to continue indefinitely, decoherence remains incalculable, or both.

One observes therein an openness: the future isn’t a random lottery, but rather causal principles involved are more than exchanges of energy between constituents; causation is due to differing patterns of dynamical behavior or of expressions of information. No physics makes it difficult to believe that God interacts with the unfolding history of creation through inputs of active information.

Physicists ran from Einstein to Lorenz for an absolute door closure upon or at least scientifically highly implausible perception of God, but haven’t shown it there; maybe the third and final relevant theory, the Big Bang theory, will provide the ultimate smackdown of a mere myth.

The Big Bang theory says our universe created itself from the nexus of another universe, thus no God created it nor by extrapolation anything in it. 

This one’s too easy to rebut: since physics insists no matter can ab initio generate itself, where then did the very first-of-all universes come from, especially since a vacuum produces nothing? Well, physics is pretty quiet there, meaning something in transcendence of our physics is the day one initiator of our realm and everything ever in it or any predecessor universe(s). 

Ontologically Metaphysical Opinion On Human Nature Per Syllabus  

From archaic Greek and Mycenaean society (1400-700 BC) through philosophers like Hesiod (c. 700 BC), Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics; from Hebrew Deuteronomy 15:7-10 to Islamic Qur’an 17^th surah lines 23-30 to physical forms of Hindu karman, and beyond, in such people and texts charity, mercy, and hospitality reflect a diverse and eternal human perspective that what we call “good” is part of a Creator’s essence of which all souls are a part. 

Forever and even today, many in the world insist that no God(s) or universal power higher than man exists, thus the most ruthless must maul, deceive, or otherwise prevail against the vast weaker population, which themselves could be just as ruthless as others but for laziness, fear of suppression, or both; these kind of people insist no God exists based more on expediencies than facts, further insisting that all humans are always born with “bad” character only; and they say there are no spiritual worries if you treat those needing or aspiring to charity/mercy as surplus humanity and losers, preyed upon further by faker clergy of every stripe using made-up faiths to beat fellow pikers like say Laden out of more cash. 

I myself am not aware of any science which dispels my personal beliefs that humanity is imbued with souls all created by God, God operates in the nature of the Gospels, that ruthless, pitiless self-absorption (including direct or passive participation in or tacit mental tolerance/craven admiration for malevolent, hateful, or otherwise misanthropic egregiousness) is rooted in siren enticements of darkness, and that how you spend your life determines where God will then let you stay for eternity: eternal growth in simpatico with a God having no “need or use” for you Himself, or eternal ruthlessness of a realm run by a non-God who detests your existence at all.  

In other words, anyone can be what some call “good” without God, but only to the point, if any, someone needs the help of non-ontological licensed psychiatry to overcome bona fide physically caused impairments re fear(s) or anything else relevant, often it’s easier to stay “good” through the grace God makes available to all no matter how they perceive Him.

When it comes to religious faith, or degrees thereof up to atheism, although I’m a Roman Catholic I don’t tell anyone else what to believe or not believe re God…I would publicly puzzle, however, why anyone expecting better accountability out of government and populations at large would vehemently protest not JUST the Ten Commandments even if not identified AS upon religious monument styled works, but a religion with diverse sects predicated upon light (wisdom, truth, accountability) coming into darkness (under-exposure, ignorance, deceit, ad infinitum) in a wholly peaceable way.

In such milieu, it would be awfully easy for anyone to blame others constantly for why they themselves do what they do when they have a choice not to, the velocity and depth of blame being exculpatory and thus not conducive to improvement.

Scanning the gamut of Democrat and republican themed rhetoric, it looks like THE 2008 pretense for super-charged emotionalism, while bands play on, which will by itself “change” all apart from Iraq, is: blame Churches as the tools of Conservatives and the GOP for mis-spending faith based funds through them, yes, even when spent to the tunes called by Democrat States and Towns as THEY distribute it, no Federal strings yet attached and upon suppression of fact they do receive and distribute such funds.

Whatever actual officials do or don’t say on the matters, the private cheering sections are rife with such elitist manipulations. Before anyone yells “Commie pinko!” or “Catholic Nazi!” or “GOP lickspittle!” at me, please know that in late 2002, in a National Review piece, famed Catholic/GOP/Skull & Bones/wealthy guy William F. Buckley, Jr., said of government funding of Church and charity that such things and the State needs lives of their own, I then and since concurring…especially since now so many amorphous elitists are globally involved in their own bailiwicks of State-religion partnering, in the case of Chavez resulting in little more than taking care of their whole populations for the dictator until the same care under same expectations can be transplanted elsewhere, and as the dictator uses his own resources to advance his own power globally. Surely, not that many of ANY officials truly supports de-constructing USA defenses and accommodating dictators as long as a few in private enterprise can profit therein with blind eyes to gathering foreign takeover ambitions. And the private interest political camps do appear to be urging such direction, some on precept from their own mouths they’ve “bought and paid for this or that party, so pay off!”.

Yesterday at my post office box, I received a six-page PSA from People For The American Way (PFAW), founded by Norman Lear, which PSA begins: “When you have folks from the Religious Right invoke God’s name to promote discrimination, undermine civil liberties, and limit free speech…do you think that’s not the America you believe in?”; perhaps that’s PFAW’s way of “explaining” how all immigration and fundings thereof are “used by religions to twist people around instead of talk about real issues common to all”. At page two of relevant PSA, bulleted point four says: “And, they’ve directed millions of taxpayers’ money into their own pockets and Churches under the guise of the Office Of Faith-Based Initiatives”, PFAW linking ONLY the GOP to same…see, per PFAW, either this isn’t going on in Democrat areas, or even 100% Democrat-run Illinois HAS to partake and so proceed due to a “Bush they’re afraid to say no to or talk about” if the obvious use of Democrat faith funding surfaces…the permanent status of “never-changing victim” does often get called the whole point of any blame game strategy, even outside politics.

Oh, ad damnum, GOP, ad damnum and mea culpa! But in Illinois, Democrat run entirely at the State level and home of Durbin and Obama and birthplace of Hillary Clinton, the use of State-directed faith funds and spending thereof by assorted faiths is such an orthodoxy unto itself, not even most Illinois Catholic Churches will say they have even one USA national parishioner who needs any nature of social justice themselves, nor will any such Churches normally even mention the existence of contrarian opinion channel EWTN (global Catholic network). Maybe the State Bogarts the Churches, maybe the Churches Bogart the State, maybe they Bogart each other; who knows, but a good example of why Church and State should be completely separate.

Something to think about, because politicians are famous for waffling so they always were “on the winning side” of everything in their careers, and some are saying that through HR 1955, LOST, and the Global Poverty Act, through appeasing current and future dictators through acting just like them,, the USA can be secure even economically and with a State/religion partnership undisturbed, all the globe’s people CAN under all this flourish beyond imagination.

Thus, good questions for ANY candidate arise: WHAT needs to be changed re faith funding in their own opinion; on WHAT should such funds be spent? After all, any President including Bush and his successor of any party will ex officio hand out such funds by Congressional mandate the President do so, any President thusly just a figurehead to such affairs.

After all, PFAW may come well-late to Buckley’s table insofar as separating Church/charity and State simple, yet exhortations to abominate GOD as the responsible party through his ministers as if THEY are pushing politics is not only totally off the mark, such exhortations forget to mention that PFAW colleagues are presently musing over ways to make the 100 million-plus and growing “unchurched” in the USA “of interest” for such non-attendance/non-belief(s) simple, and at the same time muse how those who DO attend, or as is the case of at least 80% polled at least have SOME faith, can be made “of interest” on grounds of PFAW types “ALL faiths are based upon non-Divine revolutionaries and disruptive rabble rousers”…in the latter case, again, and this would be the reason GOVERNMENTS fund them? In any event though, therein is still no tether as to how to change and progress, just blame gaming.