I can hear you on this one- I'm also facing pain that is greater than I am- that I could not prevent(well I COULD HAVE by turning away the great love of my life) and frankly- I keep asking WHERE ARE THEY.... I'm a polytheist- I got my answer and didn't like it- but that's how it happens with Gods sometime.
hang in there- my pain has gotten no easier I've just hung by my teeth
1) I've been agnostic and I've be a Christian. I regularly wrestle with, fight and argue with God. I can't say it makes me feel better either way to have someone to blame. Sometimes it makes me feel worse.
2) Part of me thinks God knew better than to reveal himself in a conventional way to a bunch of smart people. Smart people aren't necessarily reasonable people or faithful people either way. And it just doesn't have the poetry of God revealing himself through weakness, sacrifice and stories...something tells me the creator of the universe has a flair for both the artistic and subtle, not the obvious and practical. why? I have no idea. probably because he/she isn't the least bit concerned with what's convenient and easy for us.
As for your second question...I have to say that I just don't know. Maybe that's the beauty of it. With the divine possibly working in the mundane movements of the world; making simple things profound...perhaps that's where it's all at, but either way I wish I had a better answer for you
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Thank you:) This... is going to haunt me for a long time, so I hope I choose a path to deal with it, rather than letting it gnaw at me. And I hope it's the right one.
Firstly, I'm sorry that you seem to be going through something major and painful. I hope things start to get better for you. :(
Secondly: "But as for any 'revealed' religion, why couldn't God have 'revealed' himself to a whole whack o' clearly intelligent people at once in the same place, that way there'd be no argument about what happened or what he/she/it/they want..."
For the same reason that Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny don't "reveal" themselves to a whole whack o' clearly intelligent people at once in the same place.
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1) I've been agnostic and I've be a Christian. I regularly wrestle with, fight and argue with God. I can't say it makes me feel better either way to have someone to blame. Sometimes it makes me feel worse.
2) Part of me thinks God knew better than to reveal himself in a conventional way to a bunch of smart people. Smart people aren't necessarily reasonable people or faithful people either way. And it just doesn't have the poetry of God revealing himself through weakness, sacrifice and stories...something tells me the creator of the universe has a flair for both the artistic and subtle, not the obvious and practical. why? I have no idea. probably because he/she isn't the least bit concerned with what's convenient and easy for us.
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Secondly: "But as for any 'revealed' religion, why couldn't God have 'revealed' himself to a whole whack o' clearly intelligent people at once in the same place, that way there'd be no argument about what happened or what he/she/it/they want..."
For the same reason that Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny don't "reveal" themselves to a whole whack o' clearly intelligent people at once in the same place.
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