“I think I have the answer: Ancient and modern man, initiated force in his passion to survive and to help his fellow man-violating individual rights with taxes, regulations, prohibitions- and in this folly of good intentions, man uses force to do good and instead created evil. Therefore, evil is an irony: initiating force to do good creates the opposite of that intended.
Lydia was inspired, “This is the basis for a challenge to the state’s basic premise for initiating force: taxes, regulations, and prohibitions. Since their benevolent tyranny is based onthe belief that man doesn’t have a rational nature and must be saved from himself because his nature is bestial and his life without their guidance would be short and brutal.”
Alice concluded, “Art not the state, should lead our cultural parade by discovering and showing the ideal. The people will strive for the ideal that the artists show them and that striving gives direction to the human parade that is marching, flags flying, through the Cosmos.”
Paul commented, “The people evolved the identity of God along the way, from many gods to one God. The Hebrew, seeking to maintain their identity evolved the idea of one God and the identity for God was: I AM THAT I AM. I AM THAT I AM begot the Old Testament and the Old Testament begot the Christ; and Christ begot the New Testament and the New Testament begot Muhammad; and Muhammad begot the Koran and the Koran begot the Renaissance and the Renaissance begot the Age of Reason and the Age of Reason evolved into science and science evolved into the constitutional rights of man. Reason is God leads the parade of man now and all the scientifically verifiable wriings in all he millions of books in he enire world are he new Bible. Science is he laes evoluion of he ideni God. To know Science is to know God.”
Lydia said, “It occurs to me that the first One God was named Yah-Weh and Yah-Weh means ‘I am that I am,’ and that our math formula for God; A=A, and so, God can be identified by a mathematical equation that dates from the beginning of recorded time.”
They were quiet for the first time in hours, letting the enormity of that thought connect up in their minds, then Alics continued with a distant look in her eyes, “Artists must protray the law of identity, A=A, as the force of Reason, the eternal Force of Identity, the force that created man and the universe; the force that frees man from mistakes by giving him the means to know the truth and the will to act on that knowledge. Mistakes of every proportion are made when man is separated from God, who is Reason.”

Expanding on Einstein’s parcel allegory, God is needed for man to be a man, otherwise he is just an intelligent animal; with rights only either given to him by government or taken by force. As predicated in the US Constitution. A man without God has government subsituted for it.

And, had you kept your original sense of humour in the face of the hot and humid Indian weather, power outages, flies, scooty falls and all that, you wouldn’t have turned into a Lecturer by the end of your trip

BTW, I know truth irks