The gospel according to Sigmund Freud:
“We shall tell ourselves that it would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent Providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.”
Why would we ALL have such desires or wishes?
There seems to be at least two reasons.
Either our wishing brings about this design, or our design brings about these wishes.
The former assumes certain theories about the nature of things and concludes that the wishful thinking is what we tell ourselves in order to make things seem very nice. The latter assumes certain theologies about the nature of things and concludes that the wishful thinking was hardwired into us and that tells us something of ourselves.
Both reasons are legitimate explanations of the way things are.
Both.
That is, both explain reality by assuming other things to be true.
If one believes that there is no God, then God is something we have designed to meet the needs of our wishful thinking.
If one believes that there is a God, then wishful thinking is something we have been designed with to reveal our need of God.
These assumptions or presuppositions will interpret the other reasons as unreasonable in as much as they consider their own reasons as reasonable enough to convince all others.
Both reasons might be consistent with their own assumptions.
But can both be true of reality?
If you think so,
then I wish you the best bliss ever conceived of by the ignorant masses on both sides of this matter.
If you think not,
then I wish you would think deeply about whether the answers from either side really answer the questions that reside within you.
Perhaps, there is more to reality than meets the eye and we are in need of being transformed
Perhaps, there is more to life than the matrix and we are in need of being enlightened.
Perhaps.
Perhaps not.
Perhaps both?!
