Good without god?

you know how i constantly think about questions like
“what if god didn’t exist?” ? (if you didn’t, yes i’m one of those strange people…. )

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i usually wonder if god didn’t exist, then is there anything worthy or meaningful to do, because how can it be meaningful to live for the good of protein molecules right? The belief that humans are more than just protein molecules is, to me, a religious belief in the divine

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i just got back from a talk on Human trafficking and public health

the girl presenting it didn’t really talk about the health bit tho’ , just lots on human trafficking

but it struck me as i was listening to her:

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if god (general god, not necessarily a particular religion) really didn’t exist , then WE are all that these people (eg the trafficked people) have. There’s no god, no one else to help them already.

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which makes the need and situation all the more desperate

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and in the same vein, my friends are all i have. there’s no one else. which makes them all the more precious.

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there’s this song i really like, and i think it’s a genuine theological question that should be discussed and address in college or in some sermon

What if god was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home
Just trying to make his way home
Like a holy rolling stone
Back up to heaven all alone
Just trying to make his way home
Nobody calling on the phone
Except for the pope maybe in rome

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(am not advocating a belief in any of the above. These are just rambling products of the pensive mood i’ve been in since submiting that thesis. It almost feels like a break up. I think i’m going to buy the book Good Without God this evening)

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