The notion that "God" tests faith through trials is particularly abhorrent to me. It paints all other people in a person's life as little more than human props, in a drama centred around that person alone. Never mind that every sentient creature has a mind all their own, with their own dreams, desires and goals. Child born with a life-threatening condition? Family slaughtered in someone else's pointless war? That pensioner you hit with your SUV didn't make it? Never mind, it's just "God" testing your faith.
It's the same kind of blinkered, egocentric view that insists that the Universe ceases to exist when you close your eyes.
It's the same kind of blinkered, egocentric view that insists that the Universe ceases to exist when you close your eyes.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
