Twelve Months Later

It is, of course, difficult to write these sorts of things knowing that anybody could read it. I'm wondering if this is a journey I need to begin down the path of. I keep my cards very close to my chest. If know one really knows quite what you think, there's not much they can raise against you. Short of your actions. Your actions speak louder than words. Not really. Your words speak pretty bloody loudly. People know if you're an idiot essentially through your words. You say something daft, you'll have to work quite hard to recover.

Once again my head is brimming. I can't find the question at the bottom of everything else. The silence of God doesn't worry so much. It doesn't change very much. I have drawn the conclusion that He is there. It would appear He is not much fussed with providing conclusive evidence to that for people. As Jesus demonstrated and articulated, you could have God right in front of you and still not see Him for Who He is. Humanity's enormous problem is that they see what their emotions compel them to see. We see through the veil of our emotions.

The problem of God might seem quite simply one of His existence. Where is the evidence? There's plenty of evidence. History is littered with it. Science is full. Pity we impose our English language upon scripture and to boot assume that we are going to 'get' ancient Middle Eastern world views. This aside, I think it's this. I think people know who God is, in part. They know there's going to be shit that they have to put down. It's preferable that He doesn't exist, because  then I will not have to let go of the things I cling to. Part of the contention against God is that He is a party pooper, a difficult Individual to deal with. These are largely our projections of what we would be like were we God; unlimited power would turn us into unapologetic jerks, which is what I suspect what people think God is like. Further, it's better that a jerk like that doesn't exist thanks very much. AND (they shuffle through their websites, their bits of paper, their assumptions) HERE'S THE EVIDENCE! But they haven't really read the counter arguments. God needs to vanish in a puff of convenient smoke and hackneyed arguments do the job.

There's a disquiet in these people though. A guardedness. Because, what if, against everything they know, all their evidence, He's just there. At the back of everything. Sure, He's an Iron Age creation that required blood sacrifices to be satisfied...not everyone's back catalogue is that great. But it's important that the back catalogue has an historical/cultural context. How would you explain yourself to a pre-scientific age? That's the thing that annoys me. The offhanded way it's all disregarded with half arsed arguments.

Right. Well. Here's hoping no
one reads this.