When one realizes how little it sometimes takes to create, allow, or prevent catastrophe one begins to wonder why allowing catastrophe (the neutral position supposedly), even on a small scale, isn't criminal. It would be... if there were no God. Which places God in the position of being a Scapegoat for indifference. Well, He starts as the Backup... and becomes the Scapegoat if the Backup fails after we've come up short. I think I have that right, don't I? I mean I'm trying to comprehend the nature of indifference--how people succumb to and live with it... assuming they have choice.
"So, just exactly where were you when all of this evil went down, Allah/Jehova/Elohim/Lord? Caught napping on the job again, huh?"
And there isn't much doubt that people have to succumb to indifference to some extent. I mean, I hope you don't expect Ted Kennedy or Dick Durbin to do anything to suppress their next monumentally destructive verbal indecency just because they have privileged positions as gentlemen of the US Senate? They're not God. They can't anticipate everything. We're all as likely to be blind to a need or fail to live up to a trust, as anyone, so we all need a backup as much as the next guy. (Well, to be honest Ted needs one worse than I do, but it doesn't seem to bother him much.) So the Lord is my Shepherd, and my Backup, just in case that Shepherd thing doesn't work out. If you get into trouble and I cross the street when I see you coming just remember that.
Only sometimes I wonder how far one can push that stuff, before it pushes back?
Posted by Demosophist at July 20, 2005 02:07 AM | TrackBack