SITE OBJECTIVE

This website is devoted to the unabashed exploration of all the diversity that Nothing has brought forth. It is an exploration undertaken in the belief that just because All Things issue ultimately from One Thing (Nothing), it does not of necessity mean that All Things are therefore devoid of any interest.

Such a pluralistic objective makes it completely antithetical to the single-minded spirit of most religions (the very thing that makes them so appealing to the simple-minded). If you are such a closed-minded person, I suggest you leave at once. There is nothing here for you.

This is not a conservative site.

Conservatives do not explore, at least outside the realms of money and religion. If it has nothing to do with either of those purely selfish pursuits, conservative, gun-toting red-neck Republican Christians want nothing to do with it.

The site's focus is both myriad and sundry. (At one time I had actually thought about calling it "Myriad and Sundry", but changed my mind, because somehow it just seemed too big of a mouthful.) There are, however, a small handful of issues it seems to be returning to again and again. One of them is religion, especially the distorted force of Christianity, a conservative, narrow-minded, intolerant (and thus warped) agenda that once plunged the world into the dark ages for a thousand years. (It required the expansive liberalism of the Renaissance to revive it.)

The importance of dealing with religion (especially Christianity) is justifiable when we consider what a major role it plays in the lives of so many people all over the world. Some of those people, the legislative types, in turn play a role in the way we run our own lives. It thus becomes extremely important to focus on the influence of religion.

In the United States we claim (and seem proud) to have a government based upon the principle of separation of church and state. I believe that such a principle, however worthy it may appear, is nigh impossible to fully implement on a practical scale. Every member of every legislative body in this country is most likely also a member of a religious sect of some kind or other. When we consider the nature of religion and its persuasive effect on the personal lives of everyone who participates in it, in whatever form, it is easy to see how it may, and does, infiltrate the government which claims that it remains outside its legislative processes.

In summary, I believe that keeping religion out of the various law-making bodies is a noble objective, but, at the same time, a nigh impossible one to actually achieve. I do not believe it will ever be possible until we can completely rid ourselves of all religious influence. Consequently, one of the primary objectives of this website is the utter denigration of religion of any kind, but especially the variety that I am most familiar with, Christianity, which I consider to be a virtual insult to God. (Yes, I know, you can't really insult God, but you know what I mean.)

I believe in the complete invalidation of religion, to be sure, but I am not obsessed with it. I do not believe that such an obsession would be healthy. (It would also reek of the very intolerance that religions are guilty of.) When we take a close look at them, obsession seems to be the central passion of all religions.

Hence, my diversions into the myriad and sundry. I refuse to conform to the pattern of a typically religious person, wrapped up, virtually ironclad, in an envelope of unassailable faith-based ideology.

The world is wide open, not constrained within the parameters of an artifact, something that most religions (except those in the East) consider the universe to be. I do not believe the universe is an artifact, a virtual machine formed and fashioned by a monarch in the sky. I believe it is a natural dynamic, which literally grew from the depths of space in much the same way that plants spring forth from the soil.

I invite anyone who is interested (in any of the subjects dealt with in the essays) to respond with their own take on the matter, even if it is antithetical to what I have presented. Dialogue is always more interesting than monologue. Feel free to respond with your own opinions on anything, but especially if you think it might, in however small a way, make a contribution to the undermining and discrediting of religion.