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Critical of Faith

5:19 PM - Jul. 7, 2006 - Add to the Wildness

"People with more understanding realize that their presuppositions should be chosen after a careful consideration of what world view is true."
-Dr. Francis Schaeffer

Part of the difficulty with talking to people about areas of disagreement is that you don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. You also don't want to have them think anything less of you. And sometimes, you just don't want your private personality shaken up.

But like it or not, life is about pain. Lost relationships, lost moments, lost dreams. The goal of life is can't be to try never to hurt anyone. You'll go crazy. And you'll lose your identity trying to fit yourself into other people's.

May I make the radical suggestion that a higher - and, yes, attainable - goal for life is not to avoid causing people pain, but to aim for an end to all such sorrows.

How to go about it? Join the peace movement? Become a world-changer? A diversity advocate or a special-interest lobbyist? Or maybe just living a good life, the happiest life possible, will make some change.

Ah, but I'm thinking of something even greater than that. You can't choose when you'll lose a child. When your spouse may change their mind about your relationship. When your parents will die. What about those kinds of pain?

My radical suggestion includes those kinds of pain too. I've lost two children. One because of my own choices. I've lost relationships and many, many moments I wish I could have back. Life is angst. I don't propose that the end to struggle is the end to every challenge, every triumph life offers, either. On the contrary - I propose that an end to life's conflicts would open up so much more time for tackling real challenges, beautiful and worthwhile ones.

If I am crazy, it's for the sake of this vision - or for the sake of the God I draw it from. Put me in the mental, put me in jail, knock me around or kill me - nothing can shake it. This is my faith. Nothing else has lived up to its promises or its peace. This is the greatest adventure of my life, and I never know what Jesus Christ will do with each day I live.

So, crazy it is.

Let me tell you more about how I got here from there.

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