Religious & Scientific Axioms:
Why is it that ‘Good Guys’ possess a treasure that ‘Others’ cannot purchase and can never own?
The answer to this question is securely imbedded in self-evident truths. The erroneous belief is often advanced that fame, power, and wealth are the surest and most dependable rungs on the ladder to recognition, respect, and pleasure. This false belief ignores the fact that even in the absence of fame, power, and wealth that ‘Good Guys’ already possess a recognition, respect, and pleasure that is more enduring, more satisfying, and more rewarding than anything that ‘Others’ could pursue or achieve. It also disregards and fails to take into consideration the fact that it is only a tiny percentage of humanity that enjoy fame, power, and wealth and that the greater mass of humanity are conspicuously deprived of these achievements. It also fails to recognize that the ranks of those who are the recipients of fame, power, and wealth are as replete with family and emotional disunity, and as torn by spiritual dissatisfaction, as the ranks of those who are not favoured with fame, power, and wealth.

The answer, however, requires that we divest ourselves of the garment of imitation and disrobe ourselves of the cloak of blind and mindless acceptance of the assumed expertise of others who are themselves clothed in these selfsame limitations. It requires that we retreat into that abundance of self-evident truths that are universally recognized and accepted by the most unschooled, unlettered, and humble members of humanity as well as by the most erudite scholar and scientist. These axiomatic truths are recognizable by the human intellect and are the common property of all without exception.
An axiom, by definition, is a self-evident truth, a maxim, a postulate, a universally accepted law or principle upon which may be constructed a framework of reasoning.
Life, from beginning to end, is a process by which we discover a series of axioms that advance our intellect and shape our attitudes and upon which we construct a framework of behaviour that is consistent and in general harmony with these axioms. All science, all philosophy, and all religions derive from these discoveries and whether it is an axiom of science or an axiom of religion it is always a self-evident truth that can be recognized by all.
Although, at present, all knowledge is divided into three general categories, that is to say, we know what we know through the disciplines of science, philosophy, and religion, nonetheless, if we push far enough back into the past we will arrive at a time when these convenient divisions of knowledge were non-existent. However, it is evident and clear to any and all that our lack of knowledge, or the lack of clear, convenient, divisions by which to deal with it, in no way alters its truth or its eternal presence. Universal truth pre-exists humankind. You cannot discover what does not already exist. All our knowledge, all our philosophy, and all our science presuppose their existence before we discovered them and it follows, further, that we can only take credit for the discovery and not for the creation of the knowledge that we uncover.