Theofatalism™

Perhaps you are beginning to wonder if the traditional things you were taught in church, synagogue, mosque, or temple really are true. Maybe you are even beginning to doubt whether religion actually is based in reality. Perhaps it merely is some form of universal mental illness or delusion based in fiction and imagination. So many theologians are culpable in loss of respect and authority by organized religion the very word “church” is repulsive to many seekers of inner peace. Many people live in a gap between an old religion that no longer works and a new religion that has not yet been developed. Perhaps most people live in that gap but are afraid to admit it for fear of the unknown consequences. Perhaps there is a need for some new kind of church that would support people through this evolution towards a new spirituality that describes the world as it really is. What would it look like and what would it teach? Let it begin here. Welcome to the church like no other, but which includes all the others. The virtual Church of Theofatalism™ is like no other because it is “the universal spiritual pathway to serenity and contentment for all people.” Instead of a corporate tax exempt form of organized church, this is the most unorganized, random existence of spiritual souls embodied in human form that is possible. French poet and author extraordinaire of “Les Miserables” and “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” Victor Hugo (1773-1828) observed, “There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.” If it is time, this could be it. Like gravity, Theofatalism™ exists whether you believe in it or not and it certainly does not need your permission. Whether your organized social religion is Hindu, Buddhism, Jewish, Muslim or Christian, or some other including Atheism, this virtual church embraces them all. Everyone is a member and no one can ever live outside of it. It has no treasury, no buildings, and no clergy. It is pure soul. The universe and all it contains is its sanctuary, and its central theme is “God always wins.” Everyone is a member and no one can leave or be expelled. Theofatalism™ says that we all are on the pathway of life...exactly where we need to be here and now...like walking the Chartres labyrinth used for its universal symbol. All the ageless arguments about the existence - or not - of gods in philosophy and religions considered, in this view God the Almighty One is “that which makes all things happen.” This definition arises from the law of physics that says a body at rest tends to remain at rest unless some external force is applied to it. It also arises from the various laws of thermodynamics that avoid a specific definition of energy because it only exists as a mathematical abstraction. Still, it is assumed that nothing happens of itself without some force or cause behind it. The definition of “all things” refers to everything from the smallest subatomic particle to the largest interstellar galaxy, in all the universes however many there may be, with the lives of Homo sapiens on Earth barely discernable among them when seen from the satellites orbiting in space, each one insignificant but also indispensable. Considering all the happenings in the Universe, it is the ultimate hubris for Homo sapiens to think they are anything special and yet each individual is both insignificant and indispensable. Of course, hubris also must have a cause, that which is called God the Almighty One. However, its essence is the universal energy or Theos, not the god of mythology but the one that created the mythology.