| Our modern world is being threatened by an invisible | | | | each culture both ancient and modern, we find |
| enemy which will conquer using the art of deception. | | | | religious beliefs permeating every aspect of culture |
| As bizarre as it seems, this enemy is promoted as | | | | and governing every facet of how a community, |
| our friend, healer and helper yet the havoc being | | | | tribe or nation functions. I believe that the Eastern |
| caused by this enemy may be beyond our | | | | world and thus Eastern philosophy and religion |
| comprehension. The name of this enemy reveals its | | | | (specifically Eastern Orthodoxy) which were the |
| true nature and when broken down the name | | | | preserved by Eastern peoples, were in turn, |
| reveals the words, 'against life'. So, what is the name | | | | corrupted by Western peoples, thus opening the |
| this enemy goes by? 'Antibiotics' is the name and it | | | | way for the destructive aspects of modernity which |
| takes many forms, all of which are contributing to a | | | | we are experiencing today. |
| world wide proliferation of destructive super bugs | | | | Conflictive Views |
| that have been created by the very drugs that were | | | | Rather than digging deeper on this thought, I would |
| created to destroy the diseases they targeted. | | | | like to leave it and jump ahead to the conflict we |
| How Bad Is It? | | | | moderns are experiencing between what I will define |
| The following quote was taken from an article in the | | | | as synthetic materialism and natural materialism. |
| Nov. 98 issue of Discover magazine in an article titled, | | | | Having supposedly evolved to a higher form of |
| "Last Days Of The Wonder Drug" and I'm sure that | | | | thought, we moderns have embraced 'man' himself, |
| ten years later, the stats are worse. "More than 50 | | | | as being the creator, savior and ruler of the creation. |
| million pounds of these antibiotics are produced | | | | Religion for the most part has been relegated to the |
| annually in the United States. Some 40 percent of | | | | realms of the spiritual, immaterial world having no |
| that total is given to animals, mostly to promote | | | | influence on the material aspects of life, thus creating |
| growth rather than treat disease. Antibiotic use is also | | | | a huge "God void" which as a vacuum had to be filled |
| rampant in agriculture--for example, the drugs are | | | | by something and that something was man's intellect |
| sprayed onto fruit trees to control bacterial | | | | and ability to achieve. Thus, what we are observing in |
| infections. Another little-recognized application is in | | | | the world around us today is an all encompassing |
| antibacterial household cleaning products, soaps, | | | | phenomena of creating a synthetic material world |
| toothpaste, and even plastic toys and cutting boards, | | | | which is consequently supplanting the natural material |
| which incorporate bacteria-killing substances too | | | | world. |
| potent to be used in the body. The upshot of this | | | | Synthetic World |
| massive exposure is the increasingly familiar | | | | So what's wrong with a synthetic material world? For |
| predicament the world now faces: disease-causing | | | | starters, it is a denial of faith in a Creator and His |
| super bugs that resist the drugs that once thwarted | | | | ability to create that which is good, beneficial and |
| them. We are experiencing an alarming resurgence of | | | | enlightening for mankind. Consequently, because we |
| common but no longer curable infections from super | | | | are no longer relying upon a Creator, Provider and |
| bugs that developed their resistance in our | | | | Helper; as a civilization, we find the need to create |
| antibiotic-filled bodies, in animals, in fields, even on our | | | | our own provisions and means by which to benefit |
| antibacterial-soaked kitchen counters." | | | | our selves and our fellow man. So, instead of |
| Sterilized Creation | | | | acknowledging our Creator, Father and God, we now |
| Another sobering consideration is the fact that one | | | | ignore Him and continue on the path of creating our |
| billion tons of antibiotic laced animal waste is being | | | | own world which mimics the natural world order but |
| generated yearly with these antibiotics going into the | | | | does not give life, sustenance and good health. |
| environment thus creating even more resistant stains | | | | Delusional Thinking |
| of bacteria. Add to this number, human ingested | | | | Thus, we are experiencing the proliferation of |
| antibiotics which continue to do their destructive | | | | so-called medicines which we accurately call |
| work even after they leave our bodies passing into | | | | 'antibiotics'. The term 'antibiotic' itself reveals the utter |
| our water supplies as well as back into the soil. | | | | ignorance of mankind and our inability to extract |
| Additionally, millions of farm acres world wide have | | | | ourselves from the consequences of calling good, evil |
| been sterilized and are continuing to be sterilized by | | | | and evil, good. Apparently this principle is so deeply |
| industrial farming practices using synthetic fertilizers. | | | | ingrained into the darkened and deluded human |
| The consequences are such that beneficial flora | | | | psyche that even though we take them to promote |
| within the human and earthly terrain are no longer | | | | life, we name them according to their true definition |
| flourishing, opening yet one more facet through | | | | and purpose which is 'against life'. Nevertheless, we |
| which disease and destruction will prey upon the | | | | continue to flood the human and earthly terrain with |
| human race and our environment. | | | | these products in a state of delusional thinking and |
| Wrong Belief System | | | | schizophrenic behavior. |
| So, how is it that life on this planet has come to such | | | | Abiding Hope |
| predicament as this? When considering the big | | | | Yet, in saying all of this, it is not too late to turn back |
| picture, we can blame our situation on the | | | | to natural materialism as the means by which to |
| philosophical foundation of modernity. Modernity grew | | | | obtain our life, our health and our sustenance. The |
| out of the age of enlightenment which was nurtured | | | | earth is forgiving, revealing the nature of God and |
| in the soils of Western civilization. But if this so, what | | | | though the hour is late, it is not too late to turn back |
| was wrong with Western civilization that could | | | | to the ways of the ancients, to the ways of East |
| cultivate such disastrous consequences? I believe the | | | | and to once again embrace nature, the good earth |
| answer lies within the world of religious belief. Religion | | | | and all that grows upon it naturally as being for our |
| takes various forms around the world and within | | | | benefit as God had ordained in the beginning. |