etween these two enlightened persons. Moses had to talk the language that could be understood by his people, and those people were very primitive. Therefore, Moses spoke in the language of law, commandments. By the time Jesus arrived man had evolved. Jesus talked about love, not about law. Love is a higher value than law. The God of the Jews was a jealous god and a very angry god; for small reasons he would destroy cities. It was not really the god that was violent and angry, it was the people. Their eyes were full of violence and anger, they could not see the real God. God is always the same, but our eyes change. Jesus could see God as love and compassion. Man was changing one god for another, for a higher conception of god. In the past people had been changing gods: "Men have left God not for other gods..." But in the present day something else has happened: Man has not left God for other god. Man has dropped the whole idea of God, the whole idea of a divine presence in existence. Now man is standing alone and is feeling empty. Man cannot remain empty; it is difficult to remain empty. So a new phenomenon is happening. According to Eliot, man has created his own gods. "Professing first Reason..." -- and because man cannot remain empty for long, he replaced it first with reason; reason became god. However, reason is limited, it cannot prove many things. For example, it cannot prove the beauty of a rose, but the beauty exists. Reason cannot prove the existence of love, but love exists; reason is inadequate to prove it. Money also became god; millions of people worship money as god. Power has become a god. The politician has become the most important person in the world. We have denied God, but how can we deny our emptiness? We have rejected God, and we had to stuff something in the empty space, so we stuff it with political power, with money, with reason, with race, with dialectics. Man cannot live without religion. Man cannot live witho...
