Functionally Atheist

I woke up this morning to the smell of coffee and, for whatever habitual reason, thought about praying for my husband to find a job.

I stopped that thought in its tracks – cold.

“Why should I pray for something so mundane,” I thought, “when we have Haiti and Darfur and, well, the WORLD? My little problems don’t compare.”

Then I thought “And why should I pray for any of those places or situations either? I’m sure millions upon millions have done so and it hasn’t helped shit.”

God has not stepped in and done a single solitary thing.

WE have done things. WE have helped.

But God? Nope. Nada.

Then the epiphany struck – “We live in a world that is functionally atheist!”

I’m not saying that people don’t believe in God. People obviously believe in God. What I’m saying is that they can believe in God all they want, but they don’t ‘have’ him – despite their beliefs.

I think God (a supreme, nondual ALL that is the ground of everything) is there, but I don’t think it interferes in life in any way.

Never ever, no matter what.

The Ground of Being is not personal. I want it to be, desperately, but it is not.

Which takes me back to the “we have done things we have helped” part of the post above, because if, as I’m beginning to believe, the ALL does not (or cannot) interfere, then it is completely up to us to take care of our crap.

(There was a whole bunch more that I was going to write about our being God – and so in a sense this world is also functionally theist – but I’ve run out of time this morning and it will have to wait for another post. Perhaps the comments will generate further fodder for that.)