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God is not only relevant today, but so crucial that if there was no God we'd have to invent one. Not only for our daily lives, but for our posterity and the very future of the human race.

It is civilization that separates us from the animals and a civilization can't exist without morality. And there is no morality without a moral authority. Non-believers, of course, counter that with the honest and intelligent question, "but why can't we drop the religious hocus pocus and just be nice to each other, and let our own conscience be our moral authority?"

And the answer is ... for the same reason the utopian concept of communism, where every man shares equally in the success of all and there is no God, was corrupted to become just another feudal system with a privileged ruling class living lavishly off the backs of the working class. Communism was supposed to be a step forward for civilization from the competitive dog-eat-dog world of capitalism; instead it was a step backwards. Just as the abolishment of religion would set our culture back.

If several thousand years of recorded history tell us anything it's that it is human nature to strive for whatever power and wealth can be achieved regardless of what it costs others. Atilla the hun, Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Hitler ... the list is endless and still growing. The people who become leaders are individuals who thirst for power, and their thirst isn't slaked until they die, are killed, or run up against a divided congress or term limitations (thank God for constitutional democracy).

To put it in simpler terms, which relate to Joe Workingman as well as Adolph Hitler, humans are selfish and self-centered and can rationalize anything if it serves their desires. How many stories have we read of people robbing pension funds, swindling elderly people of their life's savings, or men already filthy rich destroying an entire company to become more filthy rich? The stories go on ad nauseum.

For Christians, this self-centeredness is at the root of what we call "original sin." Adam and Eve had literally everything in the world, but they wanted more. So they stole the one thing their creator had denied them. Insatiable greed is as old as mankind.

This concept has also been expressed in more secular ways. Catch phrases such as "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." For my generation perhaps Bruce Springsteen, in "Badlands," put it best: "Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied

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