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Fourth, the ubiquity of unjust suffering made me realize long ago the intellectual and emotional necessity of a religious outlook on life. It seems to me that it would be extremely difficult for a truly secular person to be happy if he or she were sensitive to and fully aware of evil and suffering. The nonreligious view of the world holds that this unfair and often vicious life is the only reality (i.e., there is nothing beyond this life) and that one is blessed or cursed is essentially a matter of luck; whether one is tortured or blessed matters not at all to an uncaring universe. To believe this while caring deeply about those who are cursed with terrible misfortune would seem to make happiness nearly impossible.Share
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