What is good or bad? 

                                                         

                                                       The Deposition of Christ, GIOTTO (1266-1337)

If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in this world is part of God. But, of course, if you think some things really bad, and God really good, then you cannot talk like that. You must believe that God is separate from the world and that some of the things we see in it are contrary to His will... Christianity... thinks God made the world... But it also thinks that a great many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and that God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again... And, of course, that raises a very big question. If a good God made the world why has it gone wrong? ...

And for many years... my argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? If the whole show was bad and senseless from A to Z, so to speak, why did I, who was supposed to be part of the show, find myself in such violent reaction against it? ... Thus in the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist -- in other words, that the whole of reality was senseless -- I found I was forced to assume that one part of reality -- namely my idea of justice -- was full of sense. Consequently atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning : just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be a world without meaning.

                                                                                                -Mere Christianity, C.S.Lewis

 

Enough of this, home please...