A very
nice piece by Teresa Nielsen Hayden.
The beliefs cited aren't mine, but they make good reading anyway:
Quote:
I believe that if God is as advertised, God’s ways and means and purposes cannot always be comprehensible to us.
I believe in the God of the Burgess Shale, Who not only made creation stranger than we know, but stranger than we could ever imagine.
I believe that the God who made (among other things) light, and space, and number, and time, and the spiral curve of Fibonacci numbers, must be acknowledged to understand more than I do about why there’s pain in the world.
I believe God put that itchy spot on our backs just exactly where we can’t reach it in order to encourage us be nice to each other.
I believe God doesn’t play mean practical jokes on His children, for instance the ones He makes gay.
I believe that God created my friend Rob, who is all that Christians are enjoined to be but is also a perfect natural atheist; and I believe that God rejoices in His creation. ...
[and quite a lot more]
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