Flight 9525 was written as a kind of reflection and response to the crash of a German airliner that was hijacked by a suicidal copilot who then flew the plane into a mountainside. All 150 people on board were killed.Don’t we owe it, in memoriam, to look at this execution of 149 people with wide-open eyes and not sweep it under the rug? Shouldn’t we try to discover a deeper meaning for these tragedies that are so common in the modern world?There are many institutions and customs that we can blame for these tragedies, but in this book, I want to go beyond the physical causes that create so many victims on a daily basis and look at the metaphysical causes. I am using the word metaphysical to signify that I want to search for a much deeper meaning to all this, some kind of spiritual or philosophical explanation for the terrible things that are going on in this world. Much of what I will talk about is somewhat abstract and perhaps theoretical, but I think people are searching for answers that go beyond the standard and rather meaningless explanations that religions have put forth to account for tragedies like Flight 9525. Simply put, the three basic questions that I want to examine are: 1/ Is God (or some form of higher power) a myth? 2/ If God is real, what are the characteristics of this Being? 3/ If God is real, then why do human beings suffer? Why would an all-merciful, all-loving, and all powerful Being permit Its creations to suffer?The latter of these three questions, to my knowledge, has never been answered with anything but weak and unsuccessful rationalizations by those who believe in God, and the failure to answer this question has led many to the conclusion that God does not exist.
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