Humanity without God
In reading through Paradoxy by Tom Taylor, I’m am constantly perplexed by it’s peculiarities.
The book itself is really nothing spectacular. It’s basically a sermon about how to live a better life and find inner peace. It has some good points, but the whole book seems diminished with it’s constant references to Jesus. It’s odd because the references to Jesus don’t seem to add anything to the arguments he’s making. He tells interested stories about individuals (I’ll probably add some specific examples in a later post), but then he says something about Jesus that seems, to me, to completely miss the point about his own stories.
I think my main problem is this: why are people so concerned with hanging on to this 2,000 year old book? The author shows his own ability to reason and be a good person. Why do human achievements and human behavior somehow need to be reconciled or justified to the Bible? To me it diminishes the humanity of it. When someone holds open the door for someone, or helps a lost person find there way, there is a connection there between human being and human being. Adding God’s influence to the affair only diminishes what is actually human compassion.
I don’t need God to live a life full of compassion and inner peace, and neither does the author. He just can’t seem to see it.