Giving thanks

Cosmologically Positive Attributes, part II

What then, of this matter of giving thanks?

We know in a straightforward manner from religious practice that it’s necessary and even commonplace to give thanks unto God; it’s been so known since ancient times.

Yet what we’ve inherited in our modern era is perhaps for the most part just the remnant shell of that: a formalized institution. The old-time religion has organized itself to remind us, using ritual and pageantry, of this essential action.

We’ve lost sight of the three-billion plus years that life has been evolving on this planet. Not aimlessly, as the cult of evolutionary science would have it, but to a distinctive and inevitably lawful end. From the beginning humanity’s whole organism—both as individuals and as a species—evolved in order to understand this question deep within the sensory equipment, the organs, of the body itself, not just as a theoretical concept of the mind. Our biology is a mere reflection of the theology.

How and where did we forget this?