Religion as with the abused spouse’s twisted view is a masochistic belief that humans alone are responsible for the abuses of the world. Religion is incapable of understanding that the universe is sadistically indifferent to our plight: we are but babes in the woods left to the wolves. Nature’s epochs can turn on life and render it extinct. We cling to faith not out of love of God but as a haven against the wrath of forces of which we have no control. It is too horrible to contemplate the horror of early man planted in a world of hostility without language to help sort out awesome, horrendous perceptions banging in his barely developed brain — no comforting tree of knowledge for this hapless, cruelly expendable creature, left only with the gods of darkness and fear.
Copyright © 2005 Richard R. Kennedy All rights reserved. Revised: April 18, 2005.
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