There are religions that create much uncertainty ...for lack of being able to address some very important questions. The foremost question is how we painstakingly suffer to reconcile our failures in view of our accountability to a Supreme Being who likely would be unsatisfied with us.

Some people deny and rationalize ...not so much concerning themselves with a Supreme Being, but more supremely interested in if they can convince most everyone else that they are in tune with the truth. Or that which is of a higher calling ....presumably themselves.


Others feel they must suffer and pay dear consequences. And certainly there are things that do require consequences ...at least in an orderly law-abiding type of society. If you kill someone ...then any rational society would expect a dire consequence for that.


But, some religions carry beliefs that bring with it something not of the type of an unforgivable killing. The worst of people who thrive on killing seem to follow a distorted religious view which offers them some sort of reconciliation or forgiveness for much less of a sin, by making amends through committing a much greater sin ...not only killing individuals, but also the hopes of the people, while requiring more killing and often inclusive of themselves. How much more freeing is it to believe in Jesus and the message He gave us!!


If you can accept that right now ...then I don't need to go on.


Those of you who know me ...may know I will go on, and you may not always feel compelled to go on with me. But, there must be a reason why you are still reading. Is it perhaps that you think this is serious, and are as concerned about it as I am??


The killing of hope may be within the confusion of a religion, but just because a religion is confusing, does not mean the religion poses the problem. The problem may reside in each of us.


Yes, as that old saying goes, "We are the problem!"


I'm not saying we are the problem ...I am saying we may be the problem.


Also, not saying that people are problems ...the problem is often how we have come to perceive things, and how we go about looking for solutions to the problems. And often we are trained to think the way we do.


I may be easier seemingly to say that someone else is the problem, but that only usually prolongs the problem by dismissing it, instead of committing to take a more sincere look at the problem.


Yes, we ...or the way we look at things often inclines us to fall prey to being hope killers ourselves.


We often attempt to do simple good things ...like make New Year's resolutions, in view of doing something good, and usually improvements in our lives. Yet, when we make a goal that we seem to think we can succeed with for an entire year, and we falter once or twice ...we seem to abandon the goal or resolution, as if it wasn't a good enough goal to strive again, or we are not a good enough person to think we could do anything good or meaningful.


There is something that really makes a huge significant difference in a young person's life ...and that something exists as a thing the majority of youth fail to achieve. And sadly, they often look at it as all or nothing.  It concerns virginity.


Either a young girl is a virgin, or she's not. And equally, if not more so ...a young man is involved.


If she feels, "Well, I'll never again be a virgin!" then the future goals and how one perceives themselves has been for the most part decided upon.


But, my point is, it shouldn't be.


That attitude also drives abortion, which magnifies the problem from promiscuity to killing an innocent life.


And the conversation does not get resolved in the church or the political arena.


Politically, those who are against abortion ...also often appear to be against providing funding for those who choose not to kill, and therefore choose to keep their child. Yet, it should not be so readily a routine, to be involved in such promiscuous behavior that lacks commitment and provision from the very ones who are involved. And why is it that so many adopt children from other countries, while we are readily providing abortions here? Is it economics once again winning the battle over morality?

Foremost, and irregardless of how it came all about ...if a life has begun, at whatever stage of development, do not abort that life. Eternal life for all of us began at conception, and we should be eternally grateful for it ...our own & every other.