What’s the difference between man and God?

Man needs God, where God doesn’t need man.

I’ve been doing the three month audit of my business affairs and have picked up a number of indiscrepancies; the money always goes missing if you don’t check it. My fault for leaving it too long! Fortunately I have maths with those lovely equations on my side – if you take something from the one side you need to balance it out on the other. Now this is where I can see some people don’t get it, so they cheat with the false belief that they won’t get caught or that there will be no consequences to their actions - and that started me thinking of the concept of moral hazard.

See people will steal if they feel there is no risk of being caught. It is very seldom that peoples internal moral frame work drives their actions – or maybe I feel that this is how the world has become. It’s only a crime if you can get caught.

That’s why we need God – I think there was a time that people had this feeling that even if they couldn’t get caught they wouldn’t do it; those furnaces of hell just didn’t seem to be a good option, and as long as the critical mass of those people where sufficient things went alright.

Today we have decided we are humanist – humanity exists for the sake of humanity. It’s a bit of a circular belief – ever tried a circular reference formula in MS Excel. And to be fair I don’t think any of the hard men ever signed up for the whole human rights things. I just can’t see how any tough guy - think cowboy, or knight of the round table would really buy into it. What’s this stuff about criminals need cosy accommodation, drag queens need freedom to do what they want, and you’re not allowed to go and beat up the dodgy looking guy on the sex register that just moved into your neighbourhood, wasn’t he suppose to have been put in the wrong cell?

So today we have a bunch of airy fairies and a number of out of work cowboys – actually to be honest the cowboys are making more money now than they ever did, as they are not being kept busy fighting for something they belief in. The average Joe is happy to nick anything he can get his hands on. And the children run the show – well for at least as long as they last without being beaten up by the bigger children.

Now the only problem is that I think old George W. sold his whole speal on something described so far, the only thing is I think it was a bit of a corrupt model based more on fear mongering and lack of proper critical thinking.

See the golden age of Western Society started with the Renaissance, you had the reformation that purified the religious value system and you had the embrace of science. So morals and critical thinking joined at the same time. The success was never due to capitalism or socialism or any other economic model, these just increased efficiency – that’s not what made it work.

Now we have something that I don’t really understand – but I know it doesn’t really work when modelled on MS Excel.

So can someone ask God if he would return as we’ve hit a time of moral hazards and we don’t seem to have good solutions going at the moment.