The human condition demands a king.
That is the lesson we learn from history and the lesson we learn today, for we recognize we are in need of a shepherd. Why? Because we are as dumb and helpless as sheep, and deep down we all know it.
"BUT NOT ME!" protests those that read this. No doubt, the ones that protest say that they are as wise as a fox and self sufficient to boot.
But the history of the human race, which I assume we are all apart of, says otherwise. Most men who have walked this earth have either been a slave or fought for a political demagogue.
To accomplish this task throughout history, the average cookie cutter political demagogue said that they were God so all must bow and obey. But when that went out of fashion, the political demagogue said that they spoke for God, thus they need to continue to bow and obey. but when that went out of fashion, they said that there is no God, thus making themselves a god again.
Those that deny the existence of god have essentially filled the roll to save us from ourselves and no different from those before them that either claimed to be God or claimed to speak for God. For it is these types of people who talk of our "collective salvation" Even the goddess of Mother Nature must beg for their help or she too will be destroyed.
Something worth reading is 1 Samuel 8 where the Hebrew people demanded a king. Up till that time, there was no king, only judges set up to keep the peace. However, the people wanted to be like all the other nations, and demanded a king. God then warned them of the abuses they would suffer at the hand of a sinful man king, but they would not listen, so God then gave them Saul.
From then on out, the nation of the Hebrew people began to spiral the drain until both Assyria and Babylon finished them off, as they were scattered throughout the world to await the horrors of Western Europe and eventually the ovens of Nazi Germany.
But I digress. Yes, we have a God, and it is up to us to either acknowledge that God or fashion one to follow instead. Those are our options.
I'll be damned before I kneel and worship a god..
You bow to the Progressive gods every day.
You pay your taxes, you speak in PC terms, and you condemn anyone who challenges those gods as heretics. For you believe that your political gods and goddesses are what keep people from dying in the streets, and they are the only ones that can save the planet earth itself.
You say there is no right and wrong, but then hail the virtues of democracy, as if it cleansed and purged away our sins. You hail reason and science as your savior, but then in the same breath say that global warming is destroying us, a problem brought to us via science.
For you see, the Bible had it right in the story of the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve forsook the wisdom of God for the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil. You see, they sought knowledge above wisdom like yourself, and how we are faced with looming problems like global warming, WMD's, AI, and the pollution of plastic, all brought to us by a society that craves knowledge but not wisdom
Problem is, knowledge, as great as it is, brings death if void of wisdom.