Dear, G. K. Chesterton

Dear,
G. K. Chesterton 

I was first made aware of your work, when speaking with a rich man in the forest. He told me about your idea of Communalism. We didn't speak much of it, for he had to be on his way. Then, you became recommended to me when I threw away all of my correspondences, for in the act of cleaning, new ideas began to be uncovered for me.

I had now just purchased "The Everlasting Man." It was also said to me recently, that Christians will accept my work because of G. K. Chesterton, that because my Pseudonym is B. K. Neifert, that will lend to an easier acceptance of my work. 

Providentially, I do in fact liken Christianity to the Eastern Philosophies. I do write stories on its magic and mysticism. I do, like a Shaman, make a new feast of ideas and thoughts for the religion. I do take an old, stale tradition and make it colorful again. Yet my work is only true in metaphor, not in its literal interpretation. It is not scripture---yet neither were your Father Brown.

As, you're right. If one were to look at Christianity as one would look at Sun Wukong, as an interesting and rich mythology, it would spark new and great thoughts revolving around the faith. It would be something which---as you said---would carry on for two thousand years, maybe even bring us to the stars. It would satisfy all of our moral failings, and teach us the laws of liberty and truth.

But, it's not Sun Wukong who I exemplify. That is just a myth. I exemplify the Confucians, the Mozis, the Taoists---never the Buddhists---as speaking common sense wisdom for future generations. Yet, each of those philosophers got something very wrong. Lao Tsu said that one cannot ever speak truth. Confucius said that women must be allowed to drown, if saving them meant touching their hand. Mozi would have music abandoned.

Propounding the Greek Philosophers, Aristotle didn't believe in Evil, Plato didn't believe his Forms could be found through poetry, and the Moral Sages of Greece could only find fragments of the truth.

Never once did a sage find all wisdom, nor has a sage ever so concisely divine truth as Christ did. Christ, who was a historical figure---his birth records and death certificate still exist---he was a poor Nazarene who couldn't afford books, yet philosophically, he understood things which no other sage ever could or would. 

It's not that Christ, Chesterton, had original ideas. He truly didn't. The same ideas can be found fragmented throughout history, at just about every stage, and in every place of existence. It's that throughout history, no one man had found the whole of it, and presented it to us by example. Not even Moses.

It is this reason that I believe on Jesus Christ. And simply stating, the distance of the True Eastern religions---because Buddhism is Western, not Eastern---they had found portions of all that Christ would speak or say, yet all of them had chaff among the wheat. There was no chaff in the purity of Christ's religion, which is why all must enter through His gate. For He has moral teachings, which men having Intelligence Quotients far superior to even mine hadn't but compartmentalized, and possibly dogmatized like we humans so often will do with truth. We will be like the Confucians and Mozis warring their competing philosophies, trying to make their truth superior. When, each philosophy has a compartment of the truth. The Mozis Agape and the Confucians Filial respect. Yet, these two, Confucius and Mozi, warred, and their disciples hated one another. Each one, like the respective Republican and Democrat, were ensconced in their truth and thought very little of the other's.

Yet, Christ had purity of teaching that no other teacher had. Lao Tsu found "Word" in the crudest sense, that behind all communicated things lay their nature, just as Plato had, yet the two philosophers would semantically argue about whether the utterances could be expressed. Plato saying words could carry meaning, and Lao Tsu saying they cannot. Yet, each one saying the same thing that truth Is, regardless of how we perceive or retort it.

The fact being that in Christianity, it found even this truth, the most difficult of all truths. The truth that There Is, and all utterances, all knowledge, all wisdom is about tapping into those veins, rather than sophistically bending words around to utter any fancy we like. That truth remains---and this is why Plato hated fiction. Yet, the same things he hated about fiction could be hated about science, philosophy or any other discipline. For, the true geniuses found the Truth. Yet, no genius, save God Come in the Flesh, had found all of them, and this is the miracle of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.