Us vs. Them

I have read about another worthless survey, this time of youth 18 - 29, which shows that 1/4 of them do not practice or believe in a religion. They do, however, seek spirituality, because their primary long-term goal is to be “spiritual and close to God.” How can this impossibility be possible? It would be better for these youth to seek truth via reason, at which point all roads would eventually lead to God and perforce religion. But it probably won’t happen for this hedonistic, “spoiled” Millennia generation. Religion is spirituality with responsibility, a virtue that admits of the existence of right and wrong, duty and responsibility, good and evil, yes and no, do and don’t, black and white. The word Aryan translates as “noble of birth and race. About 2000 B.C., Aryans came out of the Eurasian steppes onto the Iranian plateau; the rest is history. I like to think that my Aryan heritage of nobility exhibits itself in my embrace of a religion. Surely to be noble, one must confront the fact of the irreconcilability of moral partisanship. Face it, it’s all about us vs. them.