Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

If it will make you happy... I believe in a God that is infinite and unknowable, but who had to take on limitations in order that the world could exist and in order that humans could apprehend even a small fraction of God's existence. I believe that God set the natural world in motion with the scientific properties by which it operates (that is, I believe in scientific cosmology, not in any creation stories), and I find endlessly fascinating the diversity and beauty which evolved naturally from those simple rules. I believe that the world is imperfect, and that our job as religious people is to assist God in repairing what is broken. I believe that God weeps with us when bad things happen. I believe that people are born basically good and need no intercessors to have relationships with God. I do not believe that any individual or group of people has a monopoly on the truth or the best perception of what God is or what God wants.

And I am not interested in any attempts to convince me that my theology is wrong. It works for me. Yours works for you, and I'm glad for you for that.

        -- Aimee Yermish