Look we do for the Oracle. We seek the one who will tell us the truth…we say. Truth-seeking is hard work. It requires a bit of digging…much as the Gold Rush miners did for gold. It seems that there is no lack of people who attest that if we listen to them they will reveal the allusive truth to us.

Contrary to public opinion the truth is not always what we want to hear. It is not what Grandma said or even what our parents told us when we were but wee bairns.

Truth-seeking requires some dedication. It calls for an open mind. It requires a settled spirit and a desire to learn.

I noticed somewhat early in life that I heard from some friends when after a lengthy conversation I found that they needed something from me. I took note that administrators at Southern Illinois University certainly knew my phone number when I could be of service to them…but seemed oddly absent when I needed something from them.

Our favorite politician assures us that they have the answer to our troubles. Our favorite preacher is happy to let us in on the secret that they have a direct phone line to God and he has shared with them the secret of happiness…for us…if we will only listen.

Curiosity is essential to the discovery. I was listening to the Fauni Willis Hearing today and the Defense said that the judge must disqualify Ms. Willis from being the DA that tries the Rico Case of which former President Trump is a defendant due to the appearances of impropriety. Not that the evidence proved impropriety but just the appearance. Now if there is an appearance of impropriety there most certainly is ‘The appearance of propriety,’ which is often laid at the Candidate’s feet. To accept his extreme battering of truth and then to cloak it as proper and right and if you can believe it…that he is an ambassador of God…strains credulity.

Many would have us believe that the old rules do not apply to our 21st-century norms. 2+2=4 no longer is true. Bullying name calling and demonization of your fellow human are now alright. Get your riches any way that you can with no regard to the ‘Old Truth’ and as Mad Magazines Alfred E. Newman oft times said, ‘What Me Worry.’

‘Humanists base their understanding of the world on reason and science. Humanists reject all forms of racism and prejudice and believe in respecting and protecting everyone’s human rights, including the right to freedom of religion and belief.’

Could what passes for religion in our seeking world learn from the Humanists…