The Human Solution
Which is to say, the bodies that govern the institution of religion are rife with errors, from sexual abuse of 'the least' and invisible to financial abuse by 'the most' and visible. Because duh. Because flawed human beings are everywhere and no bodies that govern the institution of religion are immune from the so-called 'charms' of the influential and wrong.
But to say 'religion is broken' is not the same as saying: good is broken.
In other words, sweeping evidence of a broken institution of rules governing the followers of deity is not a judgment as to the realness of deity.
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But there are those who would you believe this is undoubtedly what 'religion is broken' says aloud. And such those would you further believe 'deity is not dead' is a rallying cry worth mobilizing for.
To be an army of sanctimonious 'righteousness'.
Because it should be plainly obvious that the solution to 'religion is broken' isn't amassing a mob of axes-to-grind-ers and bones-to-pick-ers who deliver apologias as if apologists are what believers are.
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This solution is the human solution.
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II. For example:
Media is broken.
Which is to say, insofar as commercial financing and liability protections conscribe the institution of news reporting, survivability looms like a proverbial elephant, from newswires to media publishers. Because duh. Because an enlightened audience is not the bottom line; measurable profitability is.
But to say 'media is broken' is not the same as saying: honesty is broken.
In other words, an excess of casual entertainment masquerading as factual revelations is not a conclusion as to the trustlessness of communication.
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But there are those who would you believe the in-the-know know what 'media is broken' unquestionably means. And such those would you further believe 'alternative facts' are worth catechizing.
As if imagined 'realities' and contrived 'information' are not fabulations but bona fides.
Because it should be plainly obvious that the solution to 'media is broken' isn't unleashing engines of brutish counterfeit rage in defense of ceaseless minutes hate.
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This solution is the human solution.
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III. To wit:
The human solution is neither compelled nor controlled,
by external will or power.
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The human solution is instead, the exercise of free will
not bent towards goodness,
with nothing and no one to blame but the freedom to manifest intention sans ever mind.
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So what is responsible for, say, mistreatment on the basis of label or faith? As in the hollowing of health care according to faith or label never mind need or moral principle otherwise avowed? Or rather, who's to blame for the freedom to manifest intention is broken?
The answer is the free whose will not bent towards goodness is a will to be human. Or rather, the human solution.
Addendum
IV. For example:
Arms bearing is broken.
Which is to say, when arms bearing becomes a license in perpetuum to murder en masse, arms bearing is broken. Because duh. Because the well-being and welfare of human beings within a nation's borders isn't a matter of upholding a domestic war so much as upholding a domestic peace.
But to say 'arms bearing is broken' is not the same as saying: guns kill or people kill.
Because so long as willful insecurities and fears drive the stockpiling of sickeningly abundant and foolproof tools of human slaughter, such nation's people will be locked unwittingly within games of Russian roulette, played at incalculable loss.
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These are but a few examples selected for their illustrative value within a constraint of brevity that are by no means exhaustive in sum or in part.
Because duh.
With that being said, being human is not inevitable and the human solution is not surprising.
Being something more than human, that, is surprising.
In the beginning, I believed in what was not inevitable and I believed in what was surprising. In the end, I still believe. What do you still believe?
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