QUARTAVEL

  What religion do aliens have? Not the human religion that worships money. Every religious habit falls before money, before wealth. The rich love one another. There are no borders. There are no religions. Only the poor are infidels. Religions save no one because they are commandments of men; only Jesus Christ saves.   “Enter the London Stock Exchange […] There the Jew, the Mohammedan, and the Christian treat each other as if they were of the same religion, and only those who are bankrupt are called infidels.” Voltaire   You walk and then you look up at society and you see different religious landscapes within it. A thin thread, a delicate balance, a sense of indifference, a fragile tolerance. Partisan entities and not spiritual homes for all. Indeed, religion is a home of power, a home of money. Religion understands the universal language of money well.   “We have too many religions to hate one another, but not enough to love one another.” Jonathan Swi...

1 To everything there is a season, a time for every matter under heaven: 2 a time to be born and a time to die. Ecclesiastes 3:1-2   In the great tapestry of human existence, we can often notice divine whispers. The Almighty can engrave the final chapter of a life on its birth date. The idea that the end of a life is written from its beginning is a mystery like that of weaving the thread of mortal life.   The Ides of March remind us that a new era of power can be suddenly interrupted by an abrupt, violent departure. Coincidences do not exist. Or perhaps, only in the minds of some who imagine a Divine Scribe with cosmic humor playing with numbers. GOD does not play with numbers.   Of course, in our modern, rational world, we try to explain these things with science and probability. But the human spirit, in its endless search for meaning, finds something more in these numerical echoes. Man seeks the why, the cause, the common thread.   Take, for example...