No Easy Answers

As is often the case when I read about how the world is going today, I am feeling somewhat unsettled and down this afternoon. Some of the issues are personal, others global.

I suppose that one of the things I miss out on by not being especially religious is not having simple answers to a lot of complex questions. At least, as a non-believer, that appears to me to be the purpose of a lot of religions: to reduce big and difficult issues to articles of faith that are easy for even poorly-educated folk to grasp and be assured by so they can get on with their lives. (I'm not saying this is why everyone turns to religion; and heck, I could be completely wrong.)

( Why Some People Think I'm Going to Hell )