1) So what if I never found love. So what if I'm not easily loved and probably won't ever be loved while on this earth. So what if I die alone disappointed, lacking the experience of a partner who I shared years of close experiences with. I guess I just have to suck it up and accept that my existence is like a lot of people's existence full of disappointments while having hope and anticipation of a fairer home beyond this world.
2) I think I love the truth. I suspect if I seen truth for what truth is absolutely, and I didn't have men's eyes discerning for me supposedly what truth is and isn't, I think me and truth would get along very nicely. I think I'll see love, outside of the irrationality contributing to life's uncertainty. I'll look honestly at good, free of the insanity present in human belief, imperfect tribal beliefs that separate imperfect people, valuable people all of us everywhere.
3) If the unknown had eyes, and the unknown had a tongue, and spoke would it proclaim unfairly: "You bumbling, imperfect, easily misguided, ideologically persuadable, ordinary people, prone to mistake, error, and deception, like all of you are; you are doomed in the end if you don't think the right saving truth."
In my opinion it's we who are irrational, and not God. We produce that which is cruel in our representation of who we think God is and we don't get that representation right. It is God who is good and us who are angry and irrational. We produce the ideologies that divide and claim love has a path that most simple people will be denied ever following. It is all our ancestors who produced this arbitrary planning saying what God is supposedly about. We are the gullible who conform our minds to these claims fearfully. Love, we reason, must be like the local ministers on the pulpit proclaim; they must know what we don't, after all they have two years in divinity college.
Let's all go sit among the chosen few and accept that all other cultures in this world are outside of what is good. Life, realistically, supposedly, is the way men in the Roman era discerned it to be, because if it's not then where does our hope rest. Might we dare to hope that God could be fairer then these ancient beliefs we take literally.
4) Perhaps our only hope is in figuring out how irrational we are, then looking into the eyes of a stranger, seeing his/her great worth, and realizing whatever that person's belief is, whatever their truth, no matter what religion, or lack of belief in God, that they are here and have value, not the value cruel ideological men of the past have conditionally gave them, but the value God really gives to all of us, beyond the darkness of our hearts, evident in our world.
True goodness sees light and dignity in people; there are no get out of jail free contracts, instead all of humanity matters to God wherever people are; the universe is held in God's hand and it is his nature that is love; it is us who are cruel and God that is fair; it is us who fail to love, our superstition that loses sight of other people; it is our weakness that doesn't dare love beyond our human irrationality. We don't love because we are fearful and gullible in our thinking, using reasoning produced out of a cruel ancient culture. When I listen to the clear thoughts of Jesus and God the father they tell me clearly that God loves us all. Do not be afraid but dare to love all people.
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