I’ve been hearing many serious questions lately about how we are going to survive serious threats to our freedom and well being.
I’m also hearing serious answers about self care, connecting with other concerned people, organizing, and taking action, although there are serious questions about what those actions should be.
I will continue to ask serious questions here and elsewhere.
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I have serious questions about how some so-called religious people can be so selfish, un-caring, and uncharitable about the most vulnerable and needy among us. .
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Here’s what I find when I search for “serious questions” on YouTube.
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Do you have any serious questions or answers about this blog?
Thanks to all who are here for serious questions, including YOU!
Having been raised Christian, but not being able to buy into the big guy in the sky bit, I’ve wondered what is Christianity all about – that’s a serious question if ever there was one. So I started listening to my Tolkien guru’s podcast Bible study, currently going through 1 John. Not for everybody – he is trying to suss out John’s original meaning by exploring the meaning of the Greek words John used – and I’m not convinced of the existence of the Big Guy, but I am convinced that the second most important commandment (belief in BG being the 1st) is that we love one another. That if we do not love one another, we are not children of the BG. We are “anti-Christs.” So take that, Magas, because Christians you are not.
Thanks for your serious questions and your serious answers, Barbara.
A book I read last year that I keep coming back to is Trevor Noah’s Born A Crime. One of the most profound pieces of wisdom he offers from his experience is that it’s fine to say “If you give a man a fish he’ll only eat for a day but teach him to fish and he’ll eat for a lifetime,” but if you don’t also give him a fishing pole and a place to fish that knowledge is worthless. I take that as a lesson in how to go forward.
Thanks so much for this serious answer, my friend.
I love that you often ask us the serious questions and it really makes us think. we should never stop asking questions.
I love that you always comment, beth. Seriously, thank you so much.
Not all “religious people are selfish, un-caring, and uncharitable about the most vulnerable and needy among us.” I’m surprised at your broad-sweeping prejudice. I’m a Christian whose Christian friends care a much as I do… and reach out to others in love and are as concerned about the hypocritical people as you are!
I didn’t mean to imply that all religious people are like that, Jan. Not at all. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
Jan, I thought the way I wrote this made it clear that I didn’t mean all religious people but since you didn’t get my meaning, I rewrote the sentence. Thank you.