The Persuasive Power of Faith

Humanity: A species of animal resident on the

third planet from the sun within its solar system 

among billions of others in the Milky Way Galaxy.

These are animals smugly complacent in the

certainty that they represent a higher order of

existence, replete with a soul, a mind and the

extraordinary capacity of thought and intellect

enabling it to investigate and understand the

mysteries of nature and the oscillating universe.

Human cognition and memory is legendary in

its scope as is the brain's potential to invent and

analyze, and reach the highest orders of sublime

creation to emulate nature's infinite designs.

Yet humanity is beset by base emotions of envy

greed, suspicion and hatred, partial to constructs

of thought elevated as devotion to ideologies

validating human paranoia guiding believers to

trust in the sacred nature of existence while

simultaneously advocating toward conquest in

the command of an eternal being itself jealous

of divine status demanding total obedience and

subjugation equipping its faithful with the frenzy

of persuasive obligations of worship of the

sacred unseen in devotion to deadly conflicts.