Profits are down - Global financial crisis! That is the real concern facing the major money markets and Corporations around the world; everything is still the same except the ability to fleece customers’ money as much as last year!

A cynical point of view to be sure, but one that isn’t really far from the truth. In our culture where the bleeding heart of a home-owner can take the headlines on the national TV news - all because his ability to sell his house at the asking price isn’t happening - is a criminal waste of time and resources when more pressing issues like poverty, war and oppression need exposing to the masses.

The financial con-trick is spreading: food, fuel and utility prices are rocketing out of control with no apparent end to the profiteering in sight. As the days go by, more and more people are getting affected, but the power of the profit-margin is overwhelming all before it - the price of shares are deemed more important than the price of life!

Wars are fought in the name of the almighty dollar (Iraq), oil is the new currency with which to forcibly dictate how you deal with your trade partners. That example is being used with utility suppliers - Gas pipelines in Russia are being held hostage by over zealous owners forcing the extortional price-increases seemingly every month to its neighbouring countries.

Now that Governments have become vessels for privatised companies - to pillage the electorate of their bank accounts - there is no way back from capitalist mercenaries from running amok within all of our societies. Everyone is expected to do their part - so long as we all keep spending money then all is well in the world.

Has Planet Earth been entranced by commercialism? Comotose to the reality around us - our existence is eroding before us while the money-makers rape the Planet of its resources so the profits show well at the end of each financial year.

Don’t be fooled into thinking that the Governments care about you, they are only in it for what they can get - stocks and shares are what it is all about, not the common folk that are shuffling a long in their insignificant lives. We now have banks that get taken over or get a huge financial hand-out from Goverment, surely something is wrong with this picture? Who wouldn’t want to be involved in that business; the endless money pit of taxpayers’ money going into the pocket of shareholders!

Dare they ever pretend to care about the rest of us, it’ll be a strange day indeed if that day ever arrived. While we still suffer the constantly re-enforced threats of crime, war and terrorism they have us all right where they want us!

God is the ultimate power that created the universe and everything in it. For many, that statement is all that is required to validate their existence in this space and time. But why is it so easy for them to willingly believe the unbelievable? Our lives are based on perceptions of fact, rules that have been accepted by us all that as mortal beings we all adhere to.

So why this allowed notion that all things are from a God? The idea that a super-being is responsible for everything around us is wild speculation at best; to have an entire belief based on these assumptions is a difficult concept to grasp. Because a believer can feel God’s presence, this appears to the only real defining aspect of God’s existence to another person. If that was used in any other situation you wouldn’t be taken seriously and ignored by others as mad.

Science is trying its hardest to find out how the universe was created, some see this as breaking down the walls of belief and exposing God as a fake, a trick of the mind. Science isn’t that far away from religion in many ways, they want answers too: who are we and why we’re hear. Proof maybe lacking but still people make claims to know just what really is going on around us.

A God is an abstention of facing the big question: the meaning of life. If you’re not willing to believe that the universe is a random chemical reaction then make up a story, you’ll feel connected and meaning can be manufactured from that. Planet Earth is a biological coincidence, just enough distance from the Sun to create life. The other story is that we’re somehow God’s greenhouse, humans created in his image to live with his teachings in a perfect eco-system.

Yet people still have faith, despite on-going troubles instilled by it in countries all over the world. Essentially all beliefs follow the same principle of a God, the creator of worlds. Each faith doesn’t incorporate another though, non-believers are nearly always damned in the worst way possible, according to any particular faiths’ good books.

With so many questions that present themselves when looking at the universe, God and its existence isn’t one that can ever be proved. It’s just a mechanism for some to make sense of the great mystery of time and space. Is it so difficult to accept that a biological accident is the only reason Earth and universe is here?

To look at belief logically, you could argue that it is no more than a mental state-of-mind, a frame work that enables the believer to stay focused and true in the great expanse of nothingness. Lose that strong feeling of faith and some may struggle to maintain a sense of who or what they are in the big picture.

If you have never been touched by God then the premise of religion is a tough mechanism to grasp. From the outside, its a loosely sold ideal that can be thrown around as fact, when absolutely nothing is needed to justify its foundation in truth. God can be the answer for many; if it means you can avoid those awkward questions then by all means believe..

Nobody is lost without a God, it just means you follow your own path, nothing more freeing than that in the universe.