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Meantime my essay may serve its purpose as a first attempt to solve a difficult problem, and to bring a variety of scattered facts into some sort of order and system.

The Golden Bough A Study in Comparative Religion By James George Frazer, M.A. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge In Two Volumes. Vol. I. New York and London MacMillan and Co. 1894

I suppose that I am not even that far along yet. I suppose that I am at the awkward point where I have just finished asking the first set of questions and had a beer and a good night’s sleep and then woke up to the second order questions that fill in the scope of the problem.

Now, I stopped being anything other than a “pick and choose” catholic a long time ago. I have heard that this is a common occurrence among us jesuit-educated types. The main point of contention for me is the idea that god loves us and pays attention to us and that justice is somehow mixed into the brew. I’m afraid I see nothing of that.

But I think that there is something out there other than what we see in the range of the electromagnetic spectrum that our bodies monitor. Again, I have no proof of anything I believe. I also think that whatever these things are, we can catch very occasional glimpses and maybe connect those very incomplete observations into a somewhat coherent worldview, albeit one riddled with holes and inconsistencies.

But truthfully, isn’t that just about where we are now?