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taken literally and were documented, but not clearly understood beyond
their time.
In today’s world, polytheism [worship of multiple gods] is primarily thought
about as past tense, because almost everyone today agrees there is only one
God. However, even as humanity today proclaims to worship one God, it
worships multiple gods without even knowing it. The roles have changed
from those early times, and false gods now represent the material or
physical elements of life, such as money, gems, jewelry, stocks, housing,
clothing, sex and pleasure, children, pets, the earth etc. God is secondary for
almost everyone until disaster strikes, and only then do people turn to God
for assistance. Many no longer deal with a reverential need to put God first;
their needs are only what they think they want, not need. The wants are
endless, as people are obsessed in the pursuit of them. Happiness in life
supersedes spiritual well being, and true spirituality has diminished greatly
while material wealth abounds! We seem to constantly choose all the wrong
things, considering them the true value of life. Subsequently, these things
have become false gods!
Who Will Win the Race?
T
he only race of concern is the human race. We are not intended to run a
race to attain human rewards only. We must become spiritually endowed
with the wisdom to distinguish between the spiritual forces of good and evil
to avoid the wrongs in life. We are destined to win and to love as it is to be
loved. Love offers us the advantage to win the race. Love is a distinguishing
factor in avoiding all obstacles along life’s path.
Each participant in this race has different characteristics, and the dress code
is unimportant. Endowed with certain genetics, each participant is prepared
to participate. The red man/woman, the black man/woman, the yellow
man/woman, and the white man/woman are adequately prepared to win.
Physical appearances are a potential distraction, suggesting supremacy in
one way or another or perhaps inadequacy.
Racial superiority is a self-righteous prejudice, even though certain physical
attributes may better equip some participants to run. There should be no
ethnological corroboration, and we are different for various reasons. The
major races have been defined largely based on skin pigmentation, and
prejudices have been based almost exclusively on physical characteristics
that have no proven relationship to intelligence or political, social, or moral