Freedom and Salvation

 

I live in the United States of America.


It is not very united these days.


I feel that much of the underlying divisiveness stems from the vague words we hear used to describe what it means to "be American."

We use words like Freedom, Independence, & Rights.


Similarly, most Major world Religions seldom seem to be consistently united in their concerns and convictions. Again, this may be related to the words that are central to each Religious community.

Words are used like Salvation, Sin, & Justification.


All of these words are open and vague.

All of these words require interpretation and opposition to have meaning.

Freedom from __?

Independence of _____?

Rights in regard to ___?

Salvation from _____?

Sin defined by ______?

Justification for _____?

 

Every individual has feelings about what these words should mean. Since no two people seem to agree on what Freedom, Salvation, or what Rights are; people are consistently at odds.

 

What I think has happened is many leaders in Religion and Government have purposefully defined the opposing factors for each word to breed a fear that requires a populace to assume a fight is necessary. 


If we all assume that all of these words are "false flags," "red herrings," or "wild goose chases," how would our world change?

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