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Your trouble is that though you accept differing degrees of intellectual quality, you are unaware of differing degrees of emotional quality and even what it means. It is no wonder then why you must reject the religious influence since it is considered all the same.
Science reveals facts and as we know we can acquire more facts and strive to integrate them into better understanding the reality of our world.
However it is not the same with our emotional quality. It remains the same unless acted upon by higher influences
1948
"One never goes wrong following his feeling. I don’t mean emotions, I mean feeling, for feeling and intuition are one.” Albert Einstein, in Einstein and the Poet – In Search of the Cosmic Man by William Hermanns (Branden Press, 1983, p. 95. – conversation on September 14, 1948)
1954
“We will be destroyed unless we create a cosmic conscience. And we have to begin to do that on an individual level, with the youth that are the politicians of tomorrow…. But no one, and certainly no state, can take over the responsibility that the individual has to his conscience.” Albert Einstein, in Einstein and the Poet – In Search of the Cosmic Man by William Hermanns (Branden Press, 1983, p. 141. Conversation in Summer of 1954)
Seculrism closes the opening to the feelings that can result in objective conscience. Where secular science needs quality facts, objective conscience needs the experience of objective value and what brings meaning to the world and our existence. People who have had this experience know the value of freedom. The majority who don’t will accept statist slavery for pragmatic gains and the destruction it must bring.
The essence of religion, its source of quality, is like the pole star for our psych. It awakens us to the higher quality of conscience the world rejects since it threatens its need for power and prestige.
America cannot be great again until it accepts the intent of the spiritual influence which served its foundings. I don’t see how it can happen. Only relative few for example are open to Einstein’s ideas on conscience.
"Create a community which develops the highest of man's qualities based on conscience. You must warn people not to make their in¬tellect their god. The intellect knows methods but it seldom knows values, and they come from feeling. If one doesn't play a part in the creative whole, he is not worth being called human. He has betrayed his true purpose." Albert Einstein, in Einstein and the Poet – In Search of the Cosmic Man by William Hermanns (Branden Press, 1983, p. 135.)
I don’t see how America can survive this growing imbalance between science and religion so I have to conclude that America can never be great again. It has lost its capacity to “feel” conscience. Without it society will never adopt voluntary obligations assuring the loss of freedom.
We have betrayed our true purpose. The secular world welcomes it as progress.
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