Peter Kropotkin: a reevaluation of values…
What if god is a question and not an answer?
doubt is the way to wisdom, not certainty, for no one ever
gained wisdom through certainty… only doubt…
so what if god is an question?
K: so as a question of values… what if god is a question?
what does this mean?
it seem that one of the key if not the primary question of humans beings
is this question of justice…what is justice? how do we achieve justice?
what does it mean to have a “just society”?
perhaps the lesson learned from our understanding that one of the key points
of religion is justice… how we find justice not in this lifetime but in the next…
but justice denied is not justice and justice delayed is not justice… justice must
be timely and current for it to be justice…perhaps we can make the equation
that for us, to find salvation means that we must find justice…
so without religion dispensing justice, how are we to reach justice?
so if god is a question, what else does this mean?
it means that we must understand who this human being creature is, in
other terms besides religious… we see people in relation to god as in
the biblical stories of Adam and Abraham and Moses… we see man explained
in these stories… but remove the religious and how do we see man now?
context is everything and in what context do we see man?
that might be a flaw we have today, we don’t have any type of representation
of what man is like in the bible… we have removed the context of man from
our understanding of who we are…
if god is the question, then the question is asking, what is this creature we call man?
it calls into question everything we think about who we are and more importantly,
who we might become…
if god is the question, then what is our understanding of who we are?
Kropotkin