Sterling Terrell

recovering economist

A World Of Blind Pitiless Indifference?

A World Of Blind Pitiless Indifference?

I just refuse to believe that the universe is nothing but blind and pitiless indifference.

I have posted before about how evil can exist in the first place.

But this is another great implication on it all.

Sure you can say there is no such thing as good and evil, but I am not sure where that leaves mankind.

I mean, if DNA is meaningless, what is the point?

Marilynne Robinson had it right, there are huge implications to this precept.

Enter Richard Dawkins, the master of belligerence. He says this: In a universe of blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won’t find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference. DNA neither knows nor cares. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.

-Ravi Zacharias and Vince Vitale, Why Suffering?

Meaning Not Through Happiness?

Meaning Not Through Happiness?

I love this point that highlights how meaning is not always attained through happiness.

Can you find difficulty more meaningful than leisure?

Of course, you can.

See, adversity might never be as pleasurable as being idle, however, it is nearly always more meaningful.

Remember that suffering is not suffering when meaning is attached to it.

With meaning and purpose, suffering becomes sacrifice.

Malcolm Muggeridge put it in these words: Contrary to what might be expected, I look back on experiences that at the same time seemed especially desolating and painful with particular satisfaction. Indeed, I can say with complete truthfulness that everything I have learned in my seventy-five years in this world, everything that has enhanced and truly enlightened my existence, has been through affliction and not through happiness, whether pursued or attained. In other words, if it ever were to be possible to eliminate affliction from our earthly existence… the result would not be to make life delectable, but to make it too banal and trivial to be endurable. This, of course, is what the cross signifies. And it is the cross, more than anything else, that has called me inexorably to Christ.

-Ravi Zacharias and Vince Vitale, Why Suffering?

Sterling Terrell