if there is no God

Have you ever disappointed yourself? Have you ever doubted your own abilities? Now, add to the mix that there is no God. No spiritual realm. So what do you do?

Learn from your mistakes? How do you know you won’t just mess up again? How would you learn in the first place? If there is no God then you are just the circuitry in your brain and that has already disappointed you before. Are you going to try to tell your brain to fire in some different synapses next time so you get the correct decision? How do you know you are thinking correctly in the first place to be able to do even that?

Now you can see how unbelievably difficult it is to fathom there not being a God. I would argue that these kinds of questions are not generally examined by an agnostic or atheist. How could they? Despair is not a sustainable condition. Eventually it will drive one to madness or some psychological or chemical dependence to attempt to mask the hopelessness. In the meantime, how would any decision be made other than what your body and emotions influence you to do? Unless of course, you are not an atheist or agnostic at all.

Maybe, just maybe, you are holding out for something more. He is holding out for you. Tomorrow we’ll look at another way.