An Answer to a Problem

Where does morality begin? Where does religion begin? A book I read years ago (and whose title and author I cannot remember) described religion as an answer to a problem. And the problem which one religion seeks to answer is not necessarily the problem another seeks to answer. Christianity seeks to answer the problem of human sin. Buddhism seeks to answer the problem of human suffering. This is one way to approach religion and morality. All of Christianity’s moral laws and restrictions seek to prevent or respond to human sin and to deal with humans as sinners. So what then is your problem?

What is ours? The Flame will be subsumed by the Grey if good people do nothing. The Song of Seven is therefore the answer to the problem of the human Gluttony. The purpose of the Song of Seven is to keep the Flame alight and pass it to the next generation, which requires adherents resist the Grey. Fascism will devour everything and then itself. The Empire will conquer everything and then itself. Capitalism will sell everything including its own life. The Grey is a cannibal suicide cult. And we stand in defiance against the Grey.