Consider the following

There was something amazing about the Casey Anthony Case that wrapped up this last month and when something amazing happens I try to think about it. One of the facets that surprised me was the national attention given to this crime. The other, what came to be, as most of us believe even more shocking, the verdict.

Here are some questions I asked myself:
Why is this so upsetting?
Am I simply ignorant of judicial process?
When will someone shoot her on the street? (not that I think they should by the way)
Finally and most potently why do we (most of the people I am in relationship with) think she was guilty.

The answers to these questions led me to Materialism and our national denial of the soul. Let me explain;

100 years ago and for most of the history of time before the 20th cenctury there have been systems of government in, family, social, economic and certainly personal senses. In these systems whether making declarations about a verdict (judgement call) in 18th century England or making a vital personal decision circa 2BC, we as a people have depended on intuition. My definition of Intuition will be: Soul Knowledge, something I know or believe deeply regardless of a direct, laid out, logical process to affirm my beliefs.

Many of us believed by intuition the defendant in this case was (and is?) guilty. Our intuition tells us Mom's don't loose there daughters minutes let alone weeks and weeks without calling the Police, freaking out, breaking down, etc. Our intuition tells us something is wrong and immediately points guilt at the Mother.

Why does our intuition tell us that? Because we have had experience with Mothers our whole lives, we have had experience with children and relatives and relational causality and Most Importantly!!!! We have had experience with our own sins and the process of lying and trying to cover them up. We know how humans work better than anyone because we are fully human. Our intuition has been formed from a lifetime of real, valid experiences.

To Materialism!
So Materialism is the belief in exactly that, the material. Whatever is physical and touchable is real and valuable and whatever is not is of less value. So love, intuition, emotion, loyalty are all devalued at the expense of the, "real" the "scientific." Materialism says DNA evidence and fingerprinting are what solve cases and anything less is speculation. Essentially, since your intuition or perception might possibly be faulty you should throw it out for something perfect, hard, Sure... you guessed it Science. Science, something that is always right, we know they don't ever make mistakes because of those other worldly white lab coats.

So intuition and judgement are out and only DNA evidence is in? If that's the case and it seems to be more and more the case why is there a jury at all? We could just run our courts by computer process? I think some would be in favor of that, to give our power over to a machine rather than possibly send an innocent man to jail.

Funny thing about sending an innocent man to jail is our nation used to believe that there was something after this life and God would justify them. But if there's no God and No afterlife fear hinder makes justice impotent.

ANywayz my main point was that Intuition represents the soul and the denial of intuition shows the swing to an even more mechanistic society. Sounded better in my head <;)