My Great Awakening

[Rob Wick]

In actuality Gene, I'm not blaming God for the problems. Nor do I blame Satan. Given that in my mind neither exist, neither can be held responsible.

When my mother was dying from cancer, I was still a believer, albeit not a very strong one. I was angry with God for allowing her to die. I was told by several good-meaning people that God could cure her immediately, yet he never did. When she died, I was mad. But I stopped believing in God not because he caused my mother to die, but because my mother died from a tumor that developed in her colon which did not respond to treatment. It was then I realized, God doesn't cause people to die, because there is no God. They die of disease because their body does not respond to treatment.

Some people in the world need the benefit of the myth that there is something higher and more powerful in existence. Some people need to have something external to blame when in reality the problem is with themselves. When people ask where was God during the Holocaust, I ask where was man? Some people need for God to exist.

I don't.

Best
Rob