Friday, September 08, 2006

The Biggest Excuse


"If there is a God, then why is there so much suffering in the world?"

Without a belief in God then the world seems a chaotic, dangerous place. Subscribe to that idea and you will never want to leave your home.

To ask the question of why suffering exists is to imply a desire that stems from a place of true compassion accompanied by a strong need to resolve the human dilemma in some way.

Yet, how can you resolve the question without either resigning to an already apparent hopelessness, or else devoting your life to finding a connection to the problem of suffering?

Most people who will ask this question will never bother to move beyond their own self righteousness.

They have no genuine interest in the answer to their own question.

It is pain and suffering that cause me to believe, or else I would be forever lost.

Enter ye in at the straight gate: for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat...

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