The God of Reality [SFI-1]

Among my unpublished notes is a collection I entitled, “Sermons For Individualists.” The title is meant to be ironic. Of all people, the least likely to need, or be interested in, some preacher’s sermons are individualists, who accept no authority except the authority of their own minds, and in all things, think for themselves.

The, “sermons,” however, are not intended to teach, but to inspire, not to instruct, but to be enjoyed as an expression of the individualist’s own enthusiasm for life, and perhaps a stimulation of his own thoughts and aspirations.

Two earlier Daily Freedom articles have already borrowed from those sermon notes, the January 31 article, “Freedom Is Freedom to Work,” and the February 8 article, Freedom, Only For Individualists which emphasized, “Individualism Is A Moral Issue.”

I intend now to publish those “sermons” in the Daily Freedom, because there really is no source for the kinds of ideas they contain, because no one else is writing strictly for independent individualists, and individualist are the only ones I write for.

I will perhaps be able to include one, or two of the “sermons” each week. They are brief and intended to be interesting, thought provoking, and even entertaining. The sermons will be designated in the title, as today’s is with: [SFI-1], which means, “Sermons For Individualists, Number 1.” Today’s “sermon” introduces the series and explains what is meant by God.

The True God

That a rationally objective individualist believes in God is, no doubt, a shocking revelation to some. Nevertheless, it is true. I am not an atheist, because I believe in God, the one and only true God.

The God I believe in is not recognized by any of the religions, which all claim to believe in God, but can neither explain what their God is beyond what “He” is not, or how they know there is such a God.

The difference between the true God and the “Gods” of the religions is that I can explain exactly what the true God is and why not believing in the true God flies in the face of all reason and knowledge.

The true God is the source of all things, all that exists and all that ever happens. The true God is the source of all virtue and all that is good. The true God is the ultimate judge and executer of justice. The true God must always be consulted in all things and can never be defied. The name of the true God is Reality.

Reality is utterly ruthless but totally just. Reality never forgives a wrong, but justly rewards every act that conforms to reality’s nature and requirements.

All pain, all evil, and all the ways that men manage to destroy or spoil their lives, or the lives of others, are the result of men evading the laws of the true God, the principles describing reality, the reality of the world, and the reality of the requirements of their own natures.

The true God of the universe, Reality, rewards only virtue, and virtue resides in only one kind of individual—the independent individual who seeks to know the truth and to live by that truth above all other things, and they are saints of the most high and only true God.