I am concerned. I am afraid some will stop reading when they read the first sentence in the next paragraph. Please keep reading and share your thoughts with me with a comment or email. Please know we don’t have to agree on everything to know that we are partners in our quest toward creating a better tomorrow. Lets work together!
I am atheist. I want to be agnostic but I can’t. I came to this after my unfortunate car accident where my three friends, the driver and the 2 other passengers were killed. It was awful, though my brain injury has saved me from remembering most of it. All in the car were 17 or younger.
I was left in a coma and with a traumatic brain injury. The brain injury caused me to lose all I had known previously. As a senior in High School, I went from taking calculus at the local university to figuring how to even put homework on a sheet of paper and doctors recommending my parents not send me to college because they didn’t think I could handle it. Thank you mom & dad for helping me succeed. Dad retaught me how to add and subtract and they both helped me learn and so much more. Most importantly, they helped me remember how to love, care and also function in life, independently.
When I returned to school, after 6 months, at 17 years of age, I was obviously a different person. I went from being competent 17 year old that had started on the baseball team, won All-American swimming honors, had friends, including a girlfriend who was a captain of the cheerleading squad, and who was ranked #1 academically in my school, to becoming a scared, unsure confused teenager. It was therefore quite a change of my circumstances.
As I recovered, obviously I was not able to clearly think until I regained my abilities. It was a slow process. As I recovered I questioned everything. I wondered a lot about fairness and why me. I also wondered, among many things, about religion. A lot of it started after reading Harold Kushner’s wonderful book, “When Bad Things Happen to Good People”. Notice it does not say “why” but “when”, even though for me it did provide a why. Since it is when, most can relate to what is presented in the book since I know most of us are good people. I strongly recommend all read his book.
Another memorable answer to some of my questions about the religion and belief in God came from one of Jonathan Haidt’s books, “The Happiness Hypothesis”. In the text he explained, on page 72, Evil bedevils religion. He asked, what he seemed to learn from Boyer, if God is all good and all powerful, how can evil exist? If God allows evil to flourish, does it mean God is not all good? Also if God struggles against evil and does not win, does it mean God is not all powerful
Book Boyer, 2001. Religion Explained: Evolutionary history of religious thought
Some more information to ponder from Freedom from Religion Foundation:
Freethought of the Day
“The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not, or, being willing to do so cannot; or they neither can nor will, or lastly, they are able and willing.“If they have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not omnipotent. If they can but will not, then they are not benevolent. If they are neither able nor willing, they are neither omnipotent nor benevolent.“Lastly, if they are both able and willing to annihilate evil, why does it exist?”
Greek philosopher Epicurus (341-270 B.C.E.), Aphorisms© Freedom From Religion Foundation.
Logic disproves all-merciful God
Atheism is rooted in scientific logic. And logic proves beyond question — more so in our present global situation— that a supernatural, all-merciful, all-powerful father-creator cannot exist.”
James Haught
What do you think?Progress toward a better tomorrow will require critical thinking, kindness, forgiveness and hard work. Science provides us with the best model to use, however we also must remember science is not perfect and requires us to always seek better answers.
I see our best path forward as one where we all work generating comprehensive improvements by creating net-positive, pervasive, reciprocal, selfish, selfless, synergistic interactions so everyone and everything benefits. We cannot wait or hope for a supernatural miracle, we must work to cause good. Can you think of a better approach?
BeWell’r,
Craig Becker
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