COMFORT, COMFORT YE MY PEOPLE.

…Were I not a Christian, for instance, I’m pretty sure I would envy Christians their beliefs about the afterlife, since the survival of consciousness and the resurrection of the body more or less matches up with my deepest longings concerning what awaits after death. (This correlation is one of the many reasons, of course, why I am a Christian to begin with.)

Yeah, I, uh… don’t agree with this. Not that I think Ross is wrong–just that his emotional response here is pretty much three hundred percent the opposite of mine. It was when I converted, and it still is. Quite possibly this is an indication of my own lingering mistrust and/or self-protective loathing of God (I have never claimed I didn’t have issues!), but there it is.

More on cold comfort; more on providence.