People find meaning and order in life in many ways. Lack of belief in your (or any) particular mythology doesn't necessarily condemn them to lives of "forlorn, pointless, random chaos, hardly worth living". Surely the condescension and limited thinking of these descriptors isn't lost on you. Can you not see the negative impact this has on someone reading who may not find your Truth to be quite so blindingly TRUE as you? Someone who doesn't need the concept of God's Great Tapestry to excuse the horror of life when it comes to us all, as it must, along with the joy? (And please, someone who isn't emotionally manipulated by a rendition of a lovely hymn into confusing it with a conversion experience)
It seems that followers of certain systems have to turn non-followers into some dark "other" to validate their own choice. ANd this "other" group has to be seen as miserable, and living in chaos, because otherwise, whooops- then what makes the believers' way "better"? But I think you all miss your chance, miss the whole message, when you assume these defensive, superior and consequently unloving, stances.
Not everyone who lives life as a non-Christian lives it in a dark cave of despair. For many, life itself is its own reward, with the dark and the light, and the pain and the glory.
I don;t resent your finding solace and meaning in your belief, JC, I am happy that it is there for you, but I do resent your presumptuousness in declaring the world such a dark and dreary place for the rest of us. |
