Ten Commandments Reflections

  Antwerp CAN LOVE REPLACE LAW? Speech by  David Arthur Walters Jocelyn Maerkian declined my invitation to attend the Antwerp conference, 'Can Love replace Law?', because of a previous engagement. I was disappointed that she could not attend. Her contributions as a fine person and a theologian would be of interest to those who are here this weekend. She did email a simple answer to the title of our conference, "Can Love Replace Law?" "The law of the universe IS love so it is one and the same."  I asked her to elaborate.  "It is the law that governs the universe. With love he gave us his life that we may live again." The many atheists here today might be tempted to dismiss Dr. Maerkian's expression of faith as incapable of proof and impertinent to the contingencies and exigencies of actual life. Nevertheless, if we meditate on her expression for awhile, we can find at least some mystical comfort in it. And, an analytical examination might reveal...

THOU SHALT LOVE GOOD OR ELSE DOOM BY DAVID ARTHUR WALTERS Thou shalt love YHWH or else! YHWH's contract with his Bride Israel specified that the Chosen People should love YHWH above all, or else.  Or else what? or else all hell shall eventually break loose, and everything good shall be lost. That is why the first commandment enjoins us to bind ourselves to the Tribal God Before All Other Tribal Gods, eventually converted into the One and Only Universal God. If we do not love the Absolute Universal God, Who, as Supreme Lord, is the Supreme Socialist Dictator, we shall be ripped into shreds vainly loving the distinctive particulars of an infatuated existence. Religion is the organized worship of Power and politics is the relative distribution of Power. Thus we find the Leading Principle of ancient religious politics expressed in the form of a Contract with YHWH posing as "the Lord." He covenants that, in consideration for being universally loved, the lovers will have Holy L...

 Dürer,1511 Doomsday is Nigh Again! by David Arthur Walters The inspiration of ancient religion is neither faith in visible or invisible idols called gods nor in faith in signs and symbols for same but faith in truth and justice. If the truth be told then justice will be done. We find little faith in truth and justice in the world where might in itself is believed to be right and where the great bitch-goddess Success is worshipped, for an honest and just person will probably fail in that world. Hence few are willing to sacrifice themselves to higher ends. Yet in the final analysis, unless many such sacrifices are made, nothing but the direst of dooms can justify history in the end. Our ‘contemporary’ world of high technology and low morality is a dog-eat-dog world where the mean attention span of the homogenous mass is little more than that of a dog that runs into a room and forgets why it entered. Indeed, psychologists advise people to take frequent breaks from the war of all agai...