Exchanging God for Kizmet
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Well-meaning friend: Cheer up, Basil. There’s someone out there for you.
Basil: Hmm?
WMF: God has someone out there just for you.
B: What makes you think that?
WMF: God has that “one” person out there for everyone.
B: I’m Orthodox. I happen to think celibacy is a perfectly legitmate form of sexuality. You seem to be working from at least one faulty presupposition.
WMF: You don’t believe that God has someone out there for you?
B: I’ve been in love before. Perhaps one of them was that one?
WMF: [silence]
B: Have you ever thought of how manipulative God would need to be in order for your romantic notion to work? Once you get down to the metaphysical nuts-and-bolts of it all, the warm, fuzzy feeling kinda goes away. You would have to be a robot, you see. God would have to be directing your every action.
WMF: [silence]
B: And, if God is indeed like this, my experience is that he is not good. If he is responsible for everything in my life, I’m not sure he’s worthy of my respect, much less my love and my worship.
WMF: [silence]
B: OK. Well, thanks. But I’m not a fatalist.