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My fault for not reading the article fully. For the curious reader, C. S. Lewis wrote a great piece on this called, "The Problem of Pain." "We can ignore even
by aliasxneo 3y ago
My fault for not reading the article fully. For the curious reader, C. S. Lewis wrote a great piece on this called, "The Problem of Pain."
"We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world."
Of course, there's hundreds of more writings on this, but Lewis is always an easy place to start.
- I_Am_Nous 3y agoNo worries, the article is huge. I also agree with Lewis, in that this world is incomplete as we are not fully one with God as we were created to be. So we recognize that lack as pain, and things we do to cope can lead us into further pain. In a world where we must eat every day to be healthy, the pain of hunger drives us to food. One could argue spiritual pain is intended to drive us to God in a similar way.