📜 So - middle of the night reflection, because I can't seem to post the Patreon piece I need to without saying something deeper here, o CoSo, where the "human" in me is at its safest:
I'm in an odd spot. I'm able to care for many, but I'm in no position to help myself. I'm an immigrant in constant precarity, and also not at all the most vulnerable of immigrants in the world (or of people living in the land of their own birth, for that matter). /x
I grew up atheist, and therefore full of wonder at our indifferent cosmos. No god, no purpose save what we make for ourselves. But we keep making TERRIBLE choices.
And it can be unbearable.
A child often has a better sense of right and wrong at times than we adults, many of whom have crafted lifetimes' worth of elaborate and academic/political vocabularies to justify the unequal and unjust positions into which we were so unthinkingly born. /x
@MLClark Please allow me to make one observation: in this thread (I have read further into it) you lament the troubles of the world but it is in this particular post where you mention your upbringing being atheist.
I will be the first to tell you of the moral failings of modern christianity especially in America. The church has *never* managed to live to up to its ideals but in striving to it has created a lot of good in the world.
No regret for being atheist. If that's the takeaway you read from my post, I'm sorry for not being clearer. There is no god. There are maybe 6.5 billion *conceptions* of a god in believers, but that's something different.
The problem is that we haven't built a better system of truly humanist care to address the indifferent cosmos in which we all reside. My humanism is big-tent. If you're a humanist of faith, our shared opponent is nihilism. I'm thankful for allies in that fray.