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he Olympics is the biggest sporting event of the year. Hopes and dreams are made and shattered in a fraction of a second. One competitor'€™s mistake is someone else'€™s good fortune.

The medalists stand to make a fortune, while those who trained equally hard are soon forgotten and left with their tears. Winners or losers, they are all aware of the risks as decisions are based on individual performance. No bias of race, color or religion. Nor does it matter whether or not their parents have a criminal past. In this respect, we humans are fair and just, we hold no prejudices.

Compare this to the billions of people who have been brought up over the centuries (brainwashed), who lived and died with the guilt and fear of original sin by a single act carried out by Adam that actually made him a human being rather than a subservient slave. But, God decreed that from then on, all human beings should bear the guilt of Adam'€™s disobedience as sinners. So says the Bible, and believers are not to question it.

Now, suppose someone at the Olympics challenged a medalist on the grounds that his/her ancestors had an unlawful past. Wouldn'€™t that person be the laughing stock of the world?

How, then, can human beings believe and teach that they have a higher moral and ethical standard than the God they profess to believe in? If this is not awful enough, it is that people with these ancient mentalities are ruling the world, at all our peril.        

The so-called left and scientists have, so far, been unable to formulate a new vision philosophy, from 21st century scientific discoveries, that would capture the hearts and minds of people.

Imagine, if a physicist, like Neil Turok can honestly say in his book The Universe Within that, '€œNature is organized in better ways, from which we can learn ['€¦] Who are we in the end? As far as we know, we represent something very rare in the universe-the organization of matter and energy into living, conscious beings ['€¦] Great mysteries remain ['€¦] are we actually the door openers to the future? Might we be the means for the universe to gain a consciousness of itself?'€ I think so.

Gunther Ostermann
Kelowna, BC. Canada