"But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."
-Umberto Eco
I can't stand the idea that: "Everything happens for a reason." People LOVE to believe this. It is, at its core, an idea rooted in religious belief. People have a very hard time with the idea of chaos. They cannot stomach the fact that entropy is the natural way of things so they invented an all powerful God who is held responsible for all of it. When God is held responsible for random occurrences such as tidal waves, earthquakes, hurricanes, etc., people are left trying to devise a REASON for why such a terrible event happened in the first place. These can range from..at the very worst...punishment for gays, sinners, blacks, or whoever else the Church decides to be focusing their vitriolic attacks on at the time.
The events in themselves are not EVIL. They are simply the result of mother nature working her course, or a result of the negative effects human beings have on the environment.
It is only when we try to come up with reasons for the events that they BECOME evil.
We must stop this horribly childish way of thinking.
- Jessica
- Welcome to The Secular Gospel According to Jess! In this blog you’ll find everything from cartoons that make me laugh, to quotes that inspire me, to stories of my own personal experience when it comes to dealing with religion and pretty much everything in between. The title of my blog is intended to be ironic, as one doesn’t often hear the word, “gospel”, associated with secularism, but my intent is to preach, for lack of a better word, what I think gospel should really be about: love, rationalism, fairness, equality, human rights, science and truth. Enjoy!
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