Rohit Chauhan

There is one logical way of solving the riddle: to argue that there is a single omnipotent God who created the entire universe – and He’s evil. But nobody in history has had the stomach for such a belief.

So, monotheism explains order, but is mystified by evil. Dualism explains evil, but is puzzled by order.

A leading theory about the origin of the gods argues that gods gained importance because they offered a solution to this problem. Gods such as the fertility goddess, the sky god and the god of medicine took centre stage when plants and animals lost their ability to speak, and the gods’ main role was to mediate between humans and the mute plants and

Religion can thus be defined as a system of human norms and values that is founded on a belief in a superhuman order.

“and your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.

Bukowski once wrote, “We’re all going to die, all of us. What a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by life’s trivialities; we are eaten up by nothing.”

You are already great because in the face of endless confusion and certain death, you continue to choose what to give a fuck about and what not to.

Confronting the reality of our own mortality is important because it obliterates all the crappy, fragile, superficial values in life.