One Kind of Thinking By a Seeker of God

I just watched the movie “The United States of Leland”. It is a story about a mixed up teenager.
At the end of the movie, here is how the young man describes his thinking about life:

There is goodness in people – but mostly it stays deep down and buried.
I guess we have God because we are scared of the bad stuff.
Or maybe not! Maybe we’re really scared of the good stuff because if there’s no God, that means the good stuff is inside of us – and we could be good all the time if we wanted.
So when we do bad things, it would be because we want to – or we have to.
Or maybe we just need the bad stuff to remind us of what the good stuff is in the first place.

Oh – what we go through on our way to God!

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