Usually, each month begins with a
column explaining why Catholic Fundamentalism is important.
As frequent readers know, Catholic Fundamentalists believe that God is able to program both energies and particles, which we try to visualize as pixels in three dimensional form. He can compile these energies and particles into beings and systems, and has downloaded them in His vast Creation Program in order to provide us with free will.
As we grow in understanding of that, we can’t help but move closer to God. His overwhelming power becomes more manifest every day. That awareness does two important things for us: First, it helps us see His awesome abilities. Second, we are able to get more frequent glimpses of our own comparative insignificance.
The vain among us do not wish God to be seen as powerful, let alone loving. They have an ever greater desire to keep from having their own self-importance minimized by the contemplation of a Being so vastly superior to them in every way.
That is as The Program intended. But, for believers, things turn around with amazing speed. Suddenly, we who have a greater appreciation of the Unprogrammed Programmer’s power, and become more humble as we compare His power with our own, understand that He loves us enough to suffer and die for us. That knowledge, when incorporated into our lives, reinforces a healthy degree of humility while showing us that we’re far more important than we may have previously realized.
If we were truly insignificant, He’d not have suffered and died for us. Since He did, we are important, but only as long as we think, speak, and act as if we aren’t.
