Western culture cannot bear the concept that Truth is a Person. It’s just another name for God; it remains anchored in His being. “For the Word of God is living and active…”
There will be no patriarch, pope or bishop in the religion of Radix Fidem. You’ll note how I intentionally decentralized things on the human level by how I characterized it. The idea can stand on its own feet. About the only way to maintain the distinction is by the cultural presumption of copyright. That is, when I publish the idea, the idea takes on a life of its own. And perhaps you noticed that I carefully avoid “defining” the thing, only characterizing it.
By the very nature of what it says, the characterization makes it all completely voluntary. If God doesn’t speak to you from these words, ignore it and move on. But you can’t volunteer to make your religion a clone of mine. Volunteering means you get involved in your own faith process.
We might well know that we see a world awash in propaganda about how power is used. The people involved seem invariably false about their motives, interested only in squelching resistance to their plans. Telling the truth destroys a political career, because lying is a part of “professional standards” in politics. And if you haven’t noticed that just about everything has been politicized, you aren’t paying attention.
But I don’t pontificate, debate or try to convince anyone of anything. I simply tell the story of my experience. You can use that story as you see fit, or ignore it, and I sincerely hope you write your own story either way. The nature of Radix Fidem is that we let God change the hearts and minds of people. We characterize it and let others decide.
This is the root of faith. It’s how I breathe life into something God calls me to do, and giving it a name makes it easier for others to make sense of it. So far as I can tell, it may well represent something universal in how God does things with us, but I don’t take myself that seriously — I don’t pretend that I can speak for God to all mankind or even one other person. If all you do is parrot my words, it’s not really your faith, is it? I suppose I might be useful in organizational terms on the human level, but there’s not much to that in the virtual sphere. This thing grew out of a desire to optimize our fellowship in Christ online. The old paradigms can’t survive into the nascent Network Age. We can’t cling to what belongs in a dying Western Civilization.
Breathe life into your own faith; make it as real as God Himself.
