No Money…in Sun-Worshipping

 

We have all heard the expression that the kingdom of God is within or that we, ourselves are gods and goddesses. Every time we use the words God, He, The Man Upstairs, Father, The Lord etc., we are expressing a monotheistic idea which was introduced to the world by the Ancient Egyptian King Akhenaton. This idea or concept of one god has ultimately become a global consensus. This, however, does not make monotheism true. Had not Akhenaton introduced a one supreme being concept, we may still be under a polytheistic religious construct, which preceded monotheism.

In Ancient Egypt, prior to King Akhenaton, there existed a god pantheon which consisted of various gods and goddesses which were “responsible” for various assignments. For instance, the goddesses Maat was the goddess of rulership of the pharaohs, Osiris ruled over death and rebirth, Thoth was the god of wisdom and writing, Septu resigned over war, Nun over water, Khonsu was responsible for travelers etc.

In the United States (a world within a world), we also appoint a pantheon of “gods” and “goddesses” for various responsibilities. For instance, our farmers are the gods of agriculture, those in the pentagon are our gods of war, doctors represent the gods/goddesses of medicine, teachers and  professors are responsible for being our gods/goddesses of education. We are essentially gods and goddesses responsible for our own procreation, self-preservation, and self governorship. So, who made us? The answer is the Sun. That’s right, the Sun is why we’re here. Consider the following facts:

The Sun is 4 ½ billion years old and it is the product of the gasses and dust of stars that lived and died billions of years ago. It is the debris from many generations of stars. We live inside the Sun’s atmosphere and all life on earth exists because of it. The Sun is 93 million miles away, yet we feel and see its effects all around us. Despite the Sun’s great distance from earth, it only takes eight minutes for its life-giving properties to reach earth. The great Sun is approximately 900,000 miles across and it could hold around 1.3 million earth-sized planets inside of it. Our great Sun represents 99.8% of the entire solar system and it weighs 300,000 times more than the earth. The Sun is 400 times larger than the moon and its core is estimated to be 27 million degrees Fahrenheit. Every second, the great Sun releases the amount of energy equivalent to 1 million H-Bombs. The elements that make up the Sun, the earth, and all of humanity, comes from the same source–star dust–the remains of stars that lived billions of years ago. Essentially, we are all the substance of stars; made in their image! The calcium in our bones, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our bodies, the oxygen in our lungs, are all elements created deep inside stars through nuclear reactions. Every atom in our bodies was produced by nuclear fusion in stars that died long before the earth was born. The Sun is responsible for everything we know. It gives us life and on the eve of its retirement (approximately 6 billion years from now) it will take life away. The Sun gives up its energy so that we may live. This last fact alone, is behind the very concept of the Christian Jesus (a man-made personification of the Sun)–who gave his life, so that we may live.

It’s easy to understand why the Sun was worshipped by just about every culture on earth. It is our real monotheistic supreme “being.”  The only reason why the sun is not honored as it once was is because there was no money to be made from it. Every one could see it, feel it and depended on it. In religion, a man-made institution where man puts himself in control, there are priests, symbols, doctrines, creeds, laws etc. Religion simply personified the Sun by creating characters with life-giving, and life-sustaining attributes. There was and still are huge profits to be made from religion. The Sun, however, cannot be placed under anyone’s law or control. Although we are blessed by the Sun, one cannot join it or tithe to it.

Now, the question becomes, “who” made the Sun; a very ordinary, average sized star amongst billions of galaxies consisting of billions of stars in each. The answer is beyond our cognitive reach–for now. Time is what essentially created the Sun and that’s the closest we can get to answering such an otherworldly question (again, at this time). Time is a dimension in space and it creates everything–in space-time. But it’s impossible to attempt to go back to a “beginning” of time. It is beyond our ability to imagine, perceive or comprehend something that happened billions or trillions of years ago. Therefore the religious/biblical claim of “In the Beginning” becomes a moot assertion. Beginnings and endings are concepts that exist within the constructs of our human ways of perceiving things. There are beginnings and endings to the books we read, the movies we watch etc. There are some things we don’t know and may never know (in our lifetimes). That’s what makes life so beautiful and mysterious. Life gives us the thrill of having imaginations. Never allow religion to manipulate it.

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