God

I certainly grew up with a Catholic morality (and rock & roll) and am grateful.

Then, over time, I left the church and the relationship with religion in general.

That’s because it was considered uncool to go to mass on Sunday.

I mean, do you want to compare going to church with strolling through the city with your friend on your scooter and dancing on Sunday afternoon in the city disco?

However, I don’t think I despised it.

I also find myself with other religions. In the end, in all of them, there is this God, and there is suffering (see Christ crucified).

In general, I find myself with those who identify God with love.

In my imagination, God represents order, mercy, justice, and all those “limitless “qualities such as omnipresence, omniscience, etc.

Nietzsche said that God is dead, and we have killed him. We killed him with science as a tool for the search for truth. If it cannot be proved scientifically with the tools of science, then it does not exist, it is not true.

Peterson emphasizes this in his book and adds that this is why we’ve had two world wars and a cold war in the last century: the last 100 years.

Because we have lost God.

We’ve lost a loaded history of meaning passed down for millennia.

And how do you think you are immune to that?

Especially in the Western world, our morality is heavily influenced.

For me, though, God is, in fact, a story.

Something that you believe in or not.

And I believe that that story and that God, that creative power, is, in part, in each of us. And that is why perhaps the story is there.

Sometimes, we don’t know how, but we can accurately distinguish right from wrong.

We know that when our story ends, the greatest judge will not be God to send us to heaven or condemn us. He has already forgiven us. He is merciful by definition.

In the end, it will be us who will judge ourselves. Ultimately, it will be us, in a sense, God.

Don’t you believe me?

Then why do you sometimes think you don’t deserve love?

Why do you sometimes think you don’t deserve to be happy?

Why do you want to wait for that something to happen before?

“Ah, if X happens, then I will be happy/loved/etc.”

Why can’t you feel that way right now?

What is it that doesn’t allow you to do that but yourself?

Of course, the external certainly plays a role and helps. But are you really sure that it is the outside that decides how you should feel?

The present and every moment is indeed a present, a gift.

All you need to do is to say yes.

Yes, to the present. Yes, to life.

Say Yes and begin to be the creator of your life.