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  THE QUESTION:  Perhaps you have already answered this, but having learned what you have, would you care to venture a solution that might help solve this religious quandary?  

 

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  THE ANSWER:  I guess my answer would be pretty much the same today as it was some two thousand years ago, “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free."  This mess that you refer to is something that plagues the mind of Lamah, and is no doubt the very reason for his heralding the idea of this Age of Reality.  Borrowing from Lamah's own mind, the serious nature of this problem has extended far beyond the bounds of the church itself.  Lamah encounters of the same sad faces and grim looks of despair that once inspired me to seek a solution for my own people.  The modern quick fix of social opiates has already reached a catastrophic level where the only predictable outcome is often that of death.  It appears that this modern society often tries to put short-lived Band-Aids on the symptoms rather than addressing the real causes, and when that doesn't seem to solve the problem, it appears that society is then so naïve as to add more of that volatile religious fuel that only exacerbates the problem.  And let me be very clear that when I say “volatile religious fuel” I am referring to the very capricious messages uttered from the capricious pulpits of so many modern-day Pharisees and Sadducees.  And as I had said once before, my heart goes out mostly to the stricken children who too often have no viable alternatives made available to them that could possibly replace the unrealistic fabrications and religious mythologies of their parents and the less than sober society to which they have been born.  Too many countless individuals have lived under the authority of this false God for so long and with such blind devotion that many religions are simply accepted as some absolute reality.  Nothing could be further from the truth!  In the course of this interview Lamah had encountered a young woman who had come to recognize this great disparity between what her parents and their generation believe and the blatant reality that she has encountered in her own life and education.  She asked Lamah,  “Does all the depression and sadness that I witness with so many of my friends have anything to do with this disparity between belief and reality?”  Lamah reminded her that it was Karl Marx that had once accused religion as being the opiate of the people.  I am in no better position to be offering a more viable solution to this problem than many who live in this very day and time.  The real problem is obvious to those who have open eyes with which to see.  Those who hold political power and moral authority over the majority just aren't willing to relinquish their coveted positions and yield to the outcry for the real truth.  It would take a major social revolution, for which there appears to be no available leadership, as those who would try are too often and routinely denied the opportunity.  Those few like Martin Luther King and even Gandhi seem to have been successfully silenced before they ever reached that ultimate pinnacle of the truth.  There are those who claim that the reward of sin is death, but it appears to me that the only reward too often given to a freedom seeker is also death.  All of this only serves to remind me of the first part of my own life, which was to have once ended hanging on a cross; that part was true except that I didn't actually die.  I was fortunate enough to have lived the second portion of my life in such blissful ignorance as to what might have followed my youthful enthusiasm.  I guess that it was I that really hadn't learned anything from my own crucifixion; perhaps I really should have died on that cross?  From all that has happened since that time, I certainly deserved to have died with even greater pain except that it would have served absolutely no purpose whatsoever!