Scripture makes it clear that our primary aim in life is to serve God. Catholic Fundamentalists familiarize ourselves with His Programming Instructions, and try to live our lives accordingly. Moses, in The First Programming Log, is one of our most worthy role-models.
Many of us decide that we will believe that His Operating Instructions, which we can download from both Church and Scripture, because they are more “believable” than alternative operating instructions that the Fans of the Golden Calf are always making up.
Our greatest, and often our first, intellectual separation from our time’s Fans of The Golden Calf involves the age of the world. Golden Calf fans continually push back the age of the universe. That gives them reasons to think they’re “intelligent” while serving the purpose of making God seem less so. “If it took him a trillion years to make the universe, how smart could he be?” is their ever-implied question.
Catholic Fundamentalists think that the universe was programmed into existence within the last eight to twelve thousand years. As soon as we see that “God can program in three dimensions”, we understand that He can program particles, compile them into structures and beings, and have them move through time.
Needless to say, the Fans of The Golden Calf do not like that line of thinking. “Why, that would mean that God is more powerful than we want to believe. That’s dangerous to every tax-collecting and sin-justifying system we have. Those who won’t believe in The Golden Calf that we made must be eliminated.”
