Psychology and Religion

[Vexari]

What Are We Struggling For?

Is it liberty?

What is this thing called liberty?

Is it a kind of freedom that requires the mortgage of our lives and souls?

Is it something so precious that we are willing to kill and die for fear of losing it?

If this is so, then liberty is a hard master and an awfully expensive date..

If this is "freedom", then it is a strange freedom indeed..

So ~ is it freedom then?

How do we even define freedom?

To the Collectivist, freedom is freedom FROM responsibility and worry over day to day needs..

It is freedom FROM a capitalistic, competitive rat race..

However, to the Individual, freedom is freedom TO live an unencumbered life and to own property with the ability to defend that ownership..

Obviously, this thing called "freedom" is awfully subjective..

I know some who have separated themselves in the name of freedom..

This "sovereign" status is a tenuous thing..those who are practicing it live in fear..

They may be absolutely, legally, constitutionally, morally and ethically correct, but they must stake their very lives on this in a society that does not recognize the foundation they stand on..

Some have paid the ultimate price in armed raids and others are rotting in jail..

Is this really freedom?

So what's the point then?

Do we give up and jump into the boxcars? I don't think so..

However, it is time to reassess just exactly what the GOAL is here, and to define it very clearly..

What IS freedom, how is it defined, and by whom?

True freedom is spiritual..

We will always face limitations on our physical freedom.. the very nature of even our original republican government recognizes and requires it..

There is no absolute freedom ~ only a point somewhere on a continuum..

What is the difference between a bit to the right or a bit to the left?

Again, your answer will be entirely relative..

It HAS to be!

Spiritual freedom is beyond that..

A spiritually free individual is truly free to fight and die for principles, and is also free to prosper, (spiritually,) even under tyranny..

The ultimate physical penalties, torture and death, are no threat to one who knows spiritual freedom..

May we know that freedom, and rejoice in it!

May it be our motivation, our goal and our reward..


~ Peter J. Celano ~