Grief, the Afterlife, and a Really Good Song
I recently lost someone very close to me and I've been struggling with it. Actually this happens to me everytime someone close to me dies, especially if they have religious beliefs. I'm an atheist. After everything that I've seen in my life I can't bring myself to believe in a god. I've met men who have committed acts so evil that it would make you throw up. If you just look at the world you can't help but wonder. Why would a god make someone suffer with cancer? Why would a god allow fatal childhood brain cancer? What did that child do to deserve to spend their whole life suffering? What does anyone do to deserve to suffer and then die? Why did the best musician i ever knew die in college? Why did my friend become locked in his body, constantly in pain? Why did a garage fall on my 3rd grade friend? War, disease, crime, poverty, all these things could go away with the flick of a magic wrist. But they don't. As a sort of aside I was raised Catholic. I saw the...