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RELIGION DILEMMAS AND PARADOXES - THE RELEVANCE AND VALUE OF 'GOD' IN OUR LIVES TODAY! PART 7.

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  And so it became necessary for intellectually advanced humans to further develop and maintain the already existing 'God firm or company.'  Even if, in secular societies, as opposed to the more religiously oppressive Islamic ones.   The religious and secular communities might maintain, for the most part, a certain easy mutuality which is characterised by an absence of tension and conflict.  Except for where it is promoted by religious and/or political demagogues. However, with the rapid and increasing advance of the scientific and political estates, religions and the concept of 'God' have been laid somewhat bare; even naked.  They have now come to be seen and understood as having no authentic substance.  To be hallow and powerless, except for the human power and rationale which have always been the foundation on which they were built.  Not only are they, religion and 'God/s' been proven, time and time again, in every test, to be powerless.  But they have also b

IT WAS WRITTEN IN THE STARS - AN ACCOUNT OF LIVES IMPACTED BY 'EVERYDAY ADVERSITIES.' PART 63.

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  Kazaliwa was not in a very different world to the one he had left behind, and it was important that he knew and understood the cultural difference.  That he could speak and understand the language and even the prison hierarchies.  He would have initially had to deffer to those who had been there before him and understood the system and had become assimilated or adjusted to it.  But if nothing else, Kazaliwa was a quick learner, and now, with his body and functioning being less compromised by the ill-effect of illicit drugs and irregular sleeping and eating pattern.   The chances are that his learning efficacy would be more enhanced. And learned he did. So much so that, although having been incarcerated for what seemed to his parents and family to be an exceptionally long period of time.   Pretty much as soon as he turned 18 and became technically an adult, Kazaliwa was fated to survive the experience and come out of prison without having been noticeably massively damaged, either ment