I feel like I have been doing it all day. By wrestling I mean thinking; by bears I mean troubles. However, I did come across this quote in an essay titled "Think Again: God" by Karen Alexander in Foreign Policy this month.
We are meaning-seeking creatures. While dogs, as far as we know, do not worry about the canine condition or agonize about their mortality, humans fall very easily into despair if we don’t find some significance in our lives. Theological ideas come and go, but the quest for meaning continues. So God isn’t going anywhere.
It reminds me of the Kenneth Burke scholarship I have read in the last three years, and it makes the case for an approach to belief that is actively curious and academic rather than dogmatic.
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