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Boston Marathon Terror

The investigation has moved swiftly and the suspects tracked down and identified, at additional cost to life. Seeking the final suspect as I write this. Hopefully, we will get some information as to their background and motives, even if the remaining fugitive does not survive the manhunt. More to the point, is that we all need to pay better attention to the vulnerablity our country has to such attacks and be more actively involved and alert to these threats. The safeguards and surveillance in place, intelligence gathering, and federal, state and local law enforcement organizations at work, not withstanding, will never be enough without every citizen accepting more responsibility to commit to the role we all can play in observing, questioning, and reporting suspicions and suspicious persons.
How Did Faith and a Belief In God become about Money and Power? Religions have evolved through oral traditions, the spoken word and telling of traditions and practices that become a common belief or guiding principle or truth. Much of this must have been based on common sense and the need to develop some degree of order and authority as bands of people grew into tribes and eventually regional and/or ethnic groups and nation-states and political states. Some of these trends were a mixture of secular power and religion, others divided power and authority between the secular and the religious leaders, and variations of each. Imagining trying to make sense of the natural calamities that afflicted the people of prehistory and to maintain and rebuild out of chaos and devastation must have credited the Gods with all manner of ills and anger towards the people that must somehow be explained and set aright. Eventual we have the word, the oral traditions and practices, set to written for...