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Looking for God in a World of Hatred and Anger
What can you believe in, or do you still believe to be true, that anger and hatred hasn’t destroyed?
My friend leaned in with tears on his face and asked how could there be a God when the world is ready to collapse under the weight of its own hatred and anger?
Forever ready to defend personal belief, and the search for God, I just sat and stared at him with no answer.
Where is God in a world where families split angry over politics, innocents are murdered because of their choice of faith, and political leaders use religion as a shield made of their own hatred against anyone who has different values, or way of life?
Even our religious role models, wrapped in their own fury, are often the people who drive us away from seeking God as they try and teach us that only they know the path, and we can never find God without them.
I was sitting with my young friend late at night having that last glass of wine. Everyone who had been part of our dinner group had left, and there was just us at the end of the bar quietly talking.
My friend was in his mid-30s, two young kids, and recently divorced. His trust in just about everything in life was shattered, but his tears were for the loss…
