Showing posts with label times of grief. Show all posts
Showing posts with label times of grief. Show all posts

January 7, 2013

The benefits of atheism

Susan Jacoby has an interesting op-ed at the NYT. Here's an excerpt:
When I try to help a loved one losing his mind to Alzheimer’s, when I see homeless people shivering in the wake of a deadly storm, when the news media bring me almost obscenely close to the raw grief of bereft parents, I do not have to ask, as all people of faith must, why an all-powerful, all-good God allows such things to happen. 
Go read it. It's really good.