This post was prompted by something Mister Kropotkin said in his excellent, long-running investigation. It got me to thinking: How often have you heard it said…. “If there is a God how come He lets little children die?” Or, if there is a God… how come, blah, blah, blah?
Little children dying of cancer. Can you imagine the horror of such a situation for a parent? To watch one’s child suffer with a terminal illness? Every minute must seem like an hour, every hour seems like a day, every day seems like a month, every month seems like a year, on and on it goes with no respite from the misery – how absolutely horrendous! How on Earth could a loving God be so cruel? No, it stands to reason, there is no such thing as God. No such thing as a Creative Spirit, no caring Mother Nature – no entity would inflict such calumnies upon His/Her/It’s offspring.
Unless, of course, we attempt to see things from the point of view of a caring, beneficent, mother nature-type creative, omniscient spirit god-like figure. An eternal – here for the long ride – operator? Then, of course, in terms of eternity, the cancer sufferer suffers for… click your thumb and your finger – gone, just like that. The human equivalent of a grazed knee, healed before you know it.
All of this hinges upon there being a God – creator – great spirit – mother nature-type entity, and us being blessed with eternal-like attributes. Then, of course it is not at all cruel, merely an opportunity to better get to know ourselves. Just a thought.