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Letter_Good Life?

May 28, 2025 by Staff Writer

Good Life?

Steven Bouley’s good life (5/15/25 issue) is “a good education, whole­some family, financial resources, reliable friends, and physical fitness.”

He doesn’t say why this is a good life, claiming that knowledge doesn’t count compared to mystical learning with a “spiritual person” from beyond the material world. 

He even claims that a good life is less important than society. Does that mean that a bad life is good? When man evades his basic method of living, his focused mind, he creates a demon-haunted, unfocused mind filled with spirits without bodies and bodies without spirits. Christians call this Original Sin. It’s really originated sin, splitting man into a spirit without body and a body without spirit.

Early Christian art presented man as just barely alive. The mind/body unity of the Greeks was not welcome in the Dark Ages, the peak of Christian culture. Jesus’s Light and Truth could not illuminate it. Mortality was 20 years, the lowest in history. Where were “life’s quality building components?” It was “beyond the importance of the material.”

The American morality of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is a radical rejection of religion in favor of man’s focused mind and life in concrete reality. Making America great again means making the productive, free will mind great again. America is the nation, the culture, the mind of rational people using their own minds to live their own lives. 

We have lost our way. Life is to be planned and enjoyed, not lived chaotically from moment to moment. and crisis to crisis. 

Man needs a morality of life and happiness. He needs reason, purpose and self-esteem. He needs  the moral virtues of independence, justice, rationality, integrity, honesty, pride, productive­ness. This is a morality of life. Then the individual can have a good life, “good education, wholesome family, financial resources, reliable friends, and physical fitness.”

Stephen Grossman, Fairhaven

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