FAITH AND RELIGION–HILARY L HUNT MD

Faith may be defined as accepting an idea as being factual without proof. Religion, on the other hand may be defined as a cultist practice aimed at influencing or appeasing a vengeful God. So, do you have faith? —-do you have religion, or better said, do you practice some organized religious exercise? I suspect an honest answer would be ‘yes’ on both counts for the majority of people. Why do you suppose that is? I would suggest to you that we have been (to use a common term) ‘brainwashed’ by our parents, teachers, and preachers to that effect. So, the obvious question to be asked is, ‘what do you believe and why do you believe it? What belief prompts your religious practice?’

The majority of people in the USA profess some sort of “Christian” faith. Then the obvious question is, ‘just what does that mean? What does it mean to be Christian’? And how is it possible that of the 200,000,000 or so ‘Christians’ in this county alone, no two have an identical faith. Most immediate answers would be something like this—well. I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior.

And I would say, ‘wait just one minute; who or what is Christ?’ Your answer likely would be fluttering, stuttering, and possibly unintelligible. Could you explain to a common simpleton what it means to be ‘Christ? If you could, you’d be extremely more talented than Jesus the Nazarene. As best I can determine, Jesus spent his entire public life attempting desperately to explain who the ‘Christ’ was to his apostles—literally 99.9999% of all written accounts show that he failed miserably.

The word Christ means king, and if it is to be used in Jesus’ title, it must always be Christ Jesus which means King Jesus. Jesus denied being a king, but he did profess to them that he was ‘the light of the world’, meaning that he was shining the beautiful light of God’s love on the entire world so it could once and for all be liberated from the oppressive religion of the Jews. Peter seems to be the first to recognize Jesus for who he was when he said, ‘You are the Christ, the Son of the living God’.

Jesus spent his entire public life in the shadows preaching the singularity of God—that is to say, he kept telling them that God is Perfect Love—the Jewish hierarchy certainly didn’t want to hear that—that was unbounded heresy and demanded death by the cruelest means—crucifixion—he was a traitor to the Jewish religion. Jesus was, in fact, a subversive traitor to the Jewish religion. His singular purpose was to supplant the guilt-ridden, money-making machine of the Jewish religion with a clear understanding that God is all love — he could not possibly reject anything he has created. Jesus wanted his brethren to know that God is in everything in existence and that everything in existence is in God.

Now, just what is religion? Plainly stated, religion is a cultist practice, overtly aimed at pleasing, appeasing, or influencing a vengeful God, but subtly aimed at power, money, and control. Just check a little history—who were the reapers of benefits from the Jewish ‘religion’? —The King and the High Priest. Has anything changed in 3000 years? —if so, its imperceptible.

So, what was Jesus telling them that was so bad? Very simply, that ‘God is in everything and everything is in God’—God loves us in spite of our wicked selves. Even most of his apostles didn’t seem to understand that (they had been brainwashed, just as you and I). Jesus was telling them what the Christ is. Christ is the ‘Light of the World’—Jesus was the ‘explainer’ of our heavenly, all loving, Creator. Jesus was a liberator who steadfastly looked the ‘scoundrels’ in the eye—he called them hypocrites, as indeed, they were. He knew his fate, but he courageously forged on. His apostles didn’t understand—maybe John a little. In his letter, John wrote, ‘brothers, what we are now, we know we are children of God. What we will become is yet to be determined. But. we know that when we get to heaven, we will be like him, because we will see him as he truly is’ (paraphrased). —how beautiful.

It took me sixty-five years of observing religion while exploring the meaning of faith to realize what was ‘missing’—-the essence of God had never explicitly been define—thousands had tried—all failed. By pure happenstance, I stumbled onto a monumental scientific course in Quantum Mechanics (Particle Physics) —it was like a miracle—Christ, the ‘Light of the World’ was plainly visible to me. Finally, God’s essence could be defined in ‘no uncertain terms’. Furthermore, that ‘essential definition’ not only defined our Creator conclusively, but more importantly, it negated completely the practice of cultist religion. That definition ‘opened doors’ never before opened except by Jesus the Christ. Seemingly, he was totally ignored—we’ll never know for sure, so distorted and ‘corrupted’ is the written word we have.

So once again for the uninitiated—God Is A Perfect Rational Being. Absolutely nothing can be added nor subtracted from that essential definition. I am allowed and mandated to form that essential definition through understanding the simple basics of particle physics. Its study shows clearly that there is a perfect rationality which pervades everything in existence. That perfect rationality stems from the fact that everything in this universe is made of perfect particles of energy with different designations and functions. A few names are electrons, photons, bosons, quarks etc. Each of these particles has the following characteristics: each is perfect in both form and function, none is distinguishable from its counterparts, none can be changed, none can be created nor destroyed my mankind, and not one more or less is in existence than at the time of their release nearly fourteen billion years ago. Are not those characteristics to be identified with eternity? I think so and furthermore, they represent that Perfect Rationality which I identify as God. Collectively, they represent all truth in this universe — they are a Perfect Truth System — they are God. Therefore, their essence is perfect rationality and God’s essence must be expressed likewise — God is a Perfect Rational Being.

Now consider this —God is perfect, unchanging and unchangeable. Yet so-called Christians are continually asking, begging, pleading with God in an attempt to appease him in one way or another, begging him to change his perfection. That would constitute blasphemy if done by a rational human. I would suggest to you that, in that sense, we are not rational — we are unadulteratedly ignorant.

More importantly, I would suggest to you that peace can never be achieved until every human comes to that understanding and acceptance — we must all become like-minded. Therefore, once again, I am calling for the ‘Worldwide Communion of Spirituality which means the understanding and acceptance that the Holy Spirit (Will of God) is imprinted on every particle of energy in this universe — peace will prevail then and only then.

In reading and studying the sayings of Pope Francis, I have concluded that he has arrived at similar conclusions as I. That is not surprising since he is a highly educated Jesuit. I could be wrong, but I suspect that he is being advised by his highly educated compatriots who would certainly know about science and specifically Particle Physics (Quantum Mechanics) — likely better than I. More praise to him for having the courage to ‘buck the traditionalist crowd’, and unashamedly profess an entirely new approach and understanding concerning a host of issues — premarital cohabitation, divorce and remarriage, prayer and communion with protestants, and common prayer with Jews and Muslims to name a few I have observed. It seems obvious to me that he recognizes everyone’s God is the same being. It seems obvious to me also that Pope Francis knows that peace can never be achieved without that common recognition by all.

I have outlined my complete philosophy, based on my essential definition of God’s essence in three books, Wilderness Cry, Peace in Spirituality, and Provocative Catholic. I encourage you to ‘liberate’ yourselves in their reading.

Attached are press-releases and short videos of Wilderness Cry and Peace in Spirituality produced by Covenant books prior to my publishing Provocative Catholic. I trust you will find inspiration in their viewing. In addition, I have published Growing Up In Fancy Farm Kentucky, which is a semi-autobiographical, semi-historical account of the first twenty-two years of my life — you may find it informational and humorous.