Yes. But ultimately futile, as I found out long before I believed anything in faith terms. When the day dawns that you realise that abstract ideas have no power to bring themselves about, and that they are only things that mankind can try to bring about, you see that they can only be as good as mankind's best efforts. And I think that Hitler and Stalin had ideals that sounded good to them. How does one man's justice get separated from another's genocide? So ideals live entirely in people's heads, are powerless in themselves, and are unattainable.
That's where Worf would be surprised. He has the advantage of being separated from other Klingons, so his concepts of honour or whatever are clearly defined. Put him in the broad mass of Klingons and he'll find each has their own, and that the spectrum is so wide as to become meaningless. There are no common narrowly defined ideals amongst mankind unless a civilisation goes mad, like Nazi Germany, and that is very likely to result in one dimensional lunacy and severe consequences.
Instead, when I found out what happened in response to first and early prayers, I discovered that I had opted to worship someone whose very nature embodied those ideas that I cared about, and who had the power and desire to bring those things about, as long as one acted as his agent in prayer. To love justice and to find it living in the form of Jesus, powerful and able to make a difference, was a wonderful revelation, that I had not even considered when I first believed.
That's where Worf would be surprised. He has the advantage of being separated from other Klingons, so his concepts of honour or whatever are clearly defined. Put him in the broad mass of Klingons and he'll find each has their own, and that the spectrum is so wide as to become meaningless. There are no common narrowly defined ideals amongst mankind unless a civilisation goes mad, like Nazi Germany, and that is very likely to result in one dimensional lunacy and severe consequences.
Instead, when I found out what happened in response to first and early prayers, I discovered that I had opted to worship someone whose very nature embodied those ideas that I cared about, and who had the power and desire to bring those things about, as long as one acted as his agent in prayer. To love justice and to find it living in the form of Jesus, powerful and able to make a difference, was a wonderful revelation, that I had not even considered when I first believed.
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