A Trust Fit for the World

Some short thoughts on the contexts for religion in Canada. Something of a gentle and friendly call for consideration of some aspects of theology in practical terms. My local context in Langley, British Columbia, Canada, is steeped in Christian theology and religion with the good and bad coming from adherence and lack of adherence to the Gospel, whether proper interpretation or not. People bring much individual conceptual baggage to the reading of their Scriptures. It’s a culture engulfed by some of the sub-culture of fundamentalist Evangelical Christianity with Trinity Western University. It’s a community, as with many others in the country, somewhat engulfed in the ideas of Creationism and Intelligent Design with particular orientations of focused eyes on purported holy scripture and the suggestion, nay assertion, of an Almighty Creator & Sustainer Father God of the Heavens and the Earth.

An individual who rises from death after a capital punishment in crucifixion. People believe this transcendent creature has plans for us, for individual human beings. In short, a community of faith, of belief in supernatural acts, with effects on individual choices of the shoulds or oughts for one’s entire life. The question: What if one denies this assertion, as increasingly millions of Americans and millions of Canadians reject it?

The expectations of choices for life become more open, less constrained, and, to those individual rejectors, probably less prone to magical thinking and errors in judgment about important questions in life. Apply this famous statement of Epicurus…