Grizzled Newbie

Love the Keith Richard bit - that might find its way into a sermon one day! Re the God question - I don’t believe in the Old Man in the Sky thing that so many people (myself included, in my militantly atheist days) assume is the only religious show in town. I suppose my best (brief!) response - is that we’re part of an enormous universe and only have very tiny brains, which means (if we’re being really honest) that we need to own up to how out of our depth we are about pretty well everything. And that means acknowledging that underneath it all is a whole lot of Big Questions - aka Mystery. For me, that’s what God is - and the religious task/journey is what we do with all that stuff - all that sheer perplexity. Don’t know if that helps - or sounds like flannel - but wrestling with Mystery can’t ever be straightforward - which is why the mindless certainties of the grinning evangelicals makes me so angry. End of rant!