Equal

The debate we're having isn't about marriage or gender. It isn't about rights or privileges. It isn't about liberal or conservative. It isn't about tradition or progress. It isn't about majority or minority.

This is about God. Whether He exists. If He doesn't, then the outcome of the debate doesn't matter. If life begins and ends with brain waves and heart beats, if we are nothing more than the product of favorable chemical conditions and natural selection, if nothing of who we are is preserved, if the contents of our minds and hearts vanish at death like sandcastles with the tide, if our essence eventually evaporates into the night, then our lives are absolutely meaningless and nothing we do is significant.

It is true we may be temporarily preserved after death in the memories of loved ones, diaries, pictures and papers, and the influence we've had on others. But after a few years all of us will be permanently forgotten. Generations will pass away, memories will be lost, nations rearranged, resources consumed, planets destroyed, galaxies collapsed. We will ultimately cease to exist in any form at all. Which means we are all two blinks of an eye away from oblivion.

If there is no God, no part of us is eternal, nothing lasts forever. So what does anything matter? What difference does it make who we marry, whether we have children, whether we are happy or sad, rich or poor, slaves or free? It doesn't. If there is no God, the argument for gay marriage is very compelling. Or it isn't. It doesn't matter. If there is no God, there are no rights or wrongs, no fundamentals or basics. Everything boils down to what I want and what you want, whatever we believe will make this fleeting, meaningless existence more tolerable until it abruptly and mercifully ends. So we might as well let everyone have things their own way, so long as no one is making someone else's journey any more painful than it needs to be.

But if there is a God, then some part of us lasts forever. What we do matters. Our lives and our choices have meaning. Right and wrong, good and evil, joy and despair, these are options that must be considered. If we have a Creator, then His viewpoint matters. It matters a great deal~

Spring

I'm working on my book again.  I've been in such a state of anxiety and consternation for the past several months that I've been nearly paralyzed.  Tranquility is finally beginning to set in, a little bit.  I hope it will last.