crisis of 'faith and reason'..hits us both at 40 eh, livi?
forms the basis for a good existential crisis. being a christian does not mean that one doesn't struggle with these issues..accepting the notion of the existence of god does not unfortunately lead to immediate 'soothing' answers to this types of questions. the numbers of people who have tainted the notion of christianity through greead and an 'appeal to the masses' is an unfortunate consequence of our flawed characteristics of humanity. personally, coming from a natural sciences background, i've found it difficult to believe a good portion of the time. but when i consider the complexity of the human brain..and when i consider the vastness of the cosmos..and don't take the latter for granted - i have an agent in new york right now shopping my nearly 800-page novel that explores one of the major implications of quantum mechanical theory: the existence of parallel universes. i spent over three years rigorously researching and writing the novel, which by its end, also is forced to address these very same questions concerning the nature of reality and the timeless question of 'faith and reason'. the title of the book is 'all that is seen and unseen'. i hope that it makes its way to your grocery and book store shelves (mercenary me)..lol. this debate is and will remain timeless..nobody's ever died and returned to describe an 'afterlife'..except the christian belief in the words from the witnesses of the lives of christ. is it all wrong? we''ll either be 'pleasnatly surprised'...or we'll die, nothing will happen, and we'll never know. i suppose some comfort can be taken in that fact..better not to know if there's nothing more.
ryan