It is true that if He doesn’t exist
Then - a mother weeping by the killing
Fields where her dead children lie now and feed
Worms - ABSOLUTELY NO HOPE FOR JUSTICE.
Neither will there be justice for the slaves, Or for those killed during the Holocaust,
Or in the genocides, or during the
atheistic communist regimes, or
In the abortion
Clinic. I simply
Refuse to live in
A hell hole like this.
Gary Edward Geraci
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A fine write Gary.
Thank you Orchidee!
I 'd call that alienation, Gary. You accept things as they are, and place the responsibility for revenge (yes – revenge) on your Higher Authority.
Fair enough Dave but I believe the word used was Justice - (yes - JUSTICE - note the all caps - in religious writing- the sign of the Supreme of which nothing else can surpass). This feeling was expressed with poignancy by Dennis Prager of PragerU in a recent “Fireside Chat - A Dialogue About God and Ayn Rand” Episode 174 with Craig Biddle, one of the best of the best atheists making the rounds here today in America. Yes, from my Catholic perspective, I do do wholeheartedly believe justice will will be served in the afterlife. Even if ‘just a system or a crutch’ - it’s the one I’ve personally chosen to subscribe to given the lackluster and bleak alternatives (philosophies) that so readily abound, competing for adherents.
Well Gary, believe it or not, I did follow your reference and watched the whole interview – which I found very interesting, not least because of the dynamics: two people exchanging very different views in a tolerant, open way. In this topic area not so common.
Only two issues I found a little problematic (ignoring God or no god?) was the thread of patriotism which ran through the conversation and the constant reference to Ann Rand, which, to anyone even only marginally to the left politically or with a humanist streak would find difficult.
Doggerel Dave - yes for me too - although I’ve come around on patriotism - I too found it appalling earlier in life but have since changed lanes and see it rather as a virtue: the virtue of patriotism for the country that has formed you (if completely secular). Having travelled to the Philippines a couple of times now, I see the great love my wife has for her native country, a deeply religious country but a desperately poor country compared to the first world countries. Those who would envision a better life abroad never completely surrender that virtue of patriotism for their home country - regardless its fallen nature and which country can claim near perfection through its history? And being a Christian, I can sense some of the barriers Mr. Prager, a practicing Jew, runs into at times by not advancing his intellectual thought processes beyond Old Testament exegesis, theology, and philosophy. But I enjoy his talks and how he leads by example in showing productive conversation between two opposing viewpoints.
I thought this was about you refusing to hear me sing again! lol.
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