Note: Please be advised that however you interpret this commentary,
 that the views expressed herein are entirely my own.   

Reverend G. H. Chopourian’s assessment in his Letter to the Editor, 
TAR Int’l., 4/19/03, on how my contemporaries might be viewing my 
commentaries as, negative and/or monotonous one-theme pieces, is 
absolutely true.   His further assessment of my intentions for 
wanting to make our Christian church Christian, through our religious 
leaders, by having them, walk in the way of the Master, is also true. 
  I want to thank the good Reverend for his gracious and complimentary 
perceptions but, most of all, for his taking the time and having the
 courage of faith to bring it to the attention of our public.

For the 32 years that our Lord Jesus Christ walked on earth twenty 
centuries ago, He tried to teach us two powerful truths -- that we 
were first and foremost created in the spiritual image of God, and 
secondly, that the most powerful and binding force of all God’s 
creations was universal love.   

He wasn’t trying to create a new religion.  He was just trying to
 establish more faith.   Fact is, the term Christian hadn’t been 
invented yet, and when it was, it was borne out of hate.  His 
crucifixion confirms this.

And notwithstanding, the slaughters that mankind bestowed on the 
newborn Christians, its survivors went on to create over two thousand
 interpretations of what our Lord was trying to teach us.   And so it
 came to pass that all of the old established, along with the new, 
and the later merging interpretations, Christian or otherwise, came
 to be classified as faiths.   But sad to say, as we view these
 thousands upon thousands of faiths today, including our many
 Christian faiths, very few, if any, are in the true spiritual
 image of God.  And sadder still, though many try to instill love 
among their followers, very few, if any, try to instill universal
 love among them.   And what better example do we have than our own
 ersatz religiously one, but administratively divided Armenian 
Apostolic Church.

Many of us today wonder why we find our overly-populated and
 religious world in such turmoil.   And I’m sorry to say, if we want 
to be downright truthful about it, we would have to admit that most
 of our problems stem from our venom factories called, organized
religion.  

Some day, if our world survives that long, we may be able to find
 that peace on earth, good will to men, that we Christians have been 
singing about.  But for that to happen, all of the ‘sky pilots’ must
 sit down together and regardless of which Christian or non-Christian 
God and denomination that they pay homage to, must come to terms and
 accept one reality and one reality only.   And that reality,
regardless of what we call Him, is that THERE IS BUT ONE GOD.

Joseph Vosbikian