Religion

Second Chapter

This chapter is an exploration in to our modern relationship with beliefs and faiths. The opening is intentionally epic to prevent the reader from complacence with such subject matter ‘the universe awakened energy, light, space and time where all conceived’. The reader/author relationship is maintained via disclosing and analysing religiously based events, feeling and thoughts from the author’s life. The effect and implications of these events is then processed openly with the intention of causing empathy.

Continuing the author explores the idea that the strength of a nation is conditional to the health/balance of the bodies and minds of the people 'like a symbiotic relationship'. He proposes that it is essential for people to have belief/faith in something greater than themselves to be able to achieve true strength and balance. This continued theme is maintained to cause the reader to wish and get to grips with the logic of this idea.

Advancing questions confronting why fanatical and illogical worship has created modern extremists and how religious foundations have 'lost their flock'. It dams the overly devout practitioners of faith for their 'murder and sin' branding them of being ‘no better than the atheists the live among’. The division between us capitalists and faith is assimilated with the progression of our materialistic desires.

The debate continues and the proposal a 'little faith' is offered. Using this small partial of belief the chapter opens the reader to the possibility that faith can be reduced to so simple a form that it could be accepted by all. The chapter concludes by demonstrating that failure in the mortal sense in this country is practically impossible, therefore 'we should have no fear of taking on an uncertain future'. He wishes us instead to,

'Just have a little faith'