Friday, June 03, 2005

A Modern Religion Demands A Modern Symbol

All religions of course have a symbol with which they represent themselves notwithstanding the fact that there are no images which their adherents are to pray to.Crosses, stars, astronomical images and all sorts of simplistic imagery are the common denominator of religions today and that is because they are artifacts from the age they were created that is the iron age .These symbols are a representaion of the consciousness of their founders and early converts and should actually be a source of embarrasment to any thinking person.Surely God and his infinite subtlety should be represented by something a little more thoughtful than a simple object that a child can draw and that is not a difficult concept in yet that seems to have escaped the so called religious scholars.A true representaion of God will be a representaion of the universe and it's creation since as shown earlier by the principle of least action God's mind and the universe are synonymous.Now if the universe is a form of Henkin sentence which derives it's own existence then a true symbol of God would be the geometric form of such a sentence.A true symbol of God will be so compelling that it will be unstoppable and will be found in the mind of a mathematician since god is the ultimate mathematician not in a seminarian.The idea of God must move past the iron age to the modern times and beyond since if he is infinite we can never know him completely and there can never be a final prophet only the latest.