"IS GOD DEAD, FREDERICK?:

Over 150 years ago the immortal Sojourner Truth exclaimed from the back of a tensely packed lecture hall from which Frederick Douglass, had just despairingly declaimed, on the eve of the Civil War, "Is God dead, Frederick?" There was no response from the immortal Douglass nor from anyone else, whether learned or unlearned. I ask the same question here. "Is God dead?" On the eve of the inauguration of Donald Trump as U. S. President. The question was too preposterous to warrant a response! So too our fears!

NATURE-GEOMETRY-KARMA-FRAUDS

NATURE-GEOMETRY-KARMA-FRAUDS What is planted will grow, usually, whether it be by seed or deed. This natural occurrence supports a host of other truths, postulates, generalizations, in religion, politics, human society, and in common everyday parlance . Just as "you reap what you sow," there are also "tares" that sown secretly among the wheat, resembling the wheat, but lacking the nurture of the wheat, because tares are from fraudulent wheat. Tares, then, are one exception to a "reap what you sow" factotum. Another exception is to have "sown much, but to bring in little," which is a close cohort to you sowing with "others" reaping it all. These "others" might be birds of the air, weeds of the field,drought from no rain just sun, or by men's hands and feet in war or by tax. Thus, the word "usually" is used in the first sentence to contextualize the thrust of its import; to limit it; to recognize, and to acknowledge, that, on Earth, things can and do fall apart. Thus, if in the mere fact of sowing "seeds" in the soil, things can go and do go wrong; that bad things can happen at any stage along seed's development, by natural "blight" of all kinds, regardless of the most carefully laid plans of "mice and men," of "cabbages and kings," still broader truths unfold, are deducible from the foregoing. Karma inscribed in seed is akin to seeds' natural phenomena, expressed in human aphorism or wise teaching. Karma is not Euclid's geometry. Geometry is proven, is demonstrated in logic, in mankind's deeds, philosophies as, resonant in science, music, art. The triumph of geometry is built into the Great Pyramid. That edifice shows that geometry can be, has been, applied to earth, upon Earth, magnificently; that man can access divinity on earth in stone, in math, in love, cosmically in harmony with nature, in time. Karma understood as retribution relies upon human inference, upon mankind's subjective sense of justice and truth set forth in the riddle of the ancient Sphinx, whose karmic nature is in its nose.

WINGS

No one and nothing can normally operate beyond the extent of its understanding or conception. A bird's flight is tied to its wings.

EARTH IS THE LORD'S

SINCE "THE EARTH IS THE LORD'S AND THE FULLNESS THEREOF, THE WORLD AND THEY THAT DWELL THEREIN," CAN ANY ONE PLACE, PERSON, PEOPLE, PROVE ANY DIVINE PREFERENCE OVER ANY OTHER PLACE, PERSON, OR PEOPLE, CONSISTENTLY WITH THAT PREMISE?

FACTS AND PHENOMENA

Facts may be abstracted from phenomena as easily as phenomena from facts.

LEAD US IN PRAYER

While I was pastor of a very small AME church in Butler, Missouri, BROOKS CHAPEL, (1995-2004) I once asked a man who had been somewhat regular in attendance to pray . He could not, would not, did not, and thereafter he never returned to worship with us ! I was reminded of this unusual occurrence when reading a similar account involving Dr. W. E. B. DuBois at Wilberforce University in Ohio, which is an AME college. DuBois wrote in DUSK OF DAWN (1940), his autobiography: "Into this situation I landed with the cane and gloves of my German student days; with my rather inflated ideas of what a 'university' ought to be and with a terrible plainness of speech that was continually getting me into difficulty; when, for instance , the student leader of a prayer meeting into which I had wandered casually to look local religion over, suddenly and without warning announced that 'Professor DuBois would lead us in prayer,' I simply answered, 'No, he won't,' and as a result nearly lost my job. It took a great deal of explaining to the board of bishops why a professor at Wilberforce should not be able at all times and sundry to address God in extemporaneous prayer. I was saved only by the fact that my coming to Wilberforce had been widely advertised and I was so willing to do endless work when the work seemed to me worth doing." P.594-595. DUBOIS :WRITINGS (1986)

"SCIENCE AND EMPIRE" IN DUBOIS' "DUSK OF DAWN"

To its peril does science ignore art, literature, philosophy, music in its noble pursuit of the essential origin of all natural law, since all of these also comprise important aspects of natural law's evolving complement . This thought was inspired by my reading of "Science and Empire," in DUSK OF DAWN (1940) by W. E. B. DuBois, wherein he writes: "Herbert Spencer finished his ten volumes of 'Synthetic Philosophy' in 1896. The biological analogy, the vast generalizations were striking, but actual scientific accomplishment lagged. For me an opportunity seemed to present itself.... I determined to pursue science into sociology through a study of the condition and problems of my own group. "I was going to study the facts, and all facts, concerning the American Negro and his plight, and by measurement and comparison and research , work up to any valid generalization which I could. I entered this primarily with the utilitarian object of reform and uplift; but nevertheless, I wanted to do the work with scientific accuracy. Thus, in my own sociology, because of firm belief in a changing racial group, I easily grasped the idea of a changing developing society rather than a fixed social structure." P.590-591, DUBOIS : WRITINGS (1986) The point here is that all of natural laws' infinite aspects whether from science, art, philosophy, literature music, are inseparable from one another each one flowing affluently into the other in synchronous unity. So, to be sure, as noted above by Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, there is ever "evolving," or, one might say, ever evolving a conception of a divine cosmological ecology subsuming science and sociology subtending and extending, all that exists. Yet, none is discrete from any other.