Charles S. Whistler

Beyond Certainty Charles S. Whistler

ABOUT THE BOOK, BEYOND CERTAINTY¿Certainty is a disaster. Superficially it is responsible for much of our personal displeasures, and profoundly it is the cause of political unrest and religious pandemonium. What if we could dismiss certainty?What if tyrannical gods could be understood as loving collaborators? What if Jesus could be freed of rigid law and be restored to his manhood and walk among us in familiarity and genuine camaraderie? What if atheists could be helpful guides instead of badgerers and bullies? What if words could be, not menaces and drudges, but words accommodating awareness? What if love could be distributed among us as an embraceable, respectable part of life, instead of being abstracted beyond human capability? (See my chapter for lyric proof of that.) What if intelligence, now allied to science and technology in certainty¿ and¿ prejudice,¿ could foster the roles of emotion, passion, and love? What if churches, now being reproached for their supernatural status, could be seen as the workshops of god's history and could be respected for their community with us? What if fundamentalists could discover that their god could better serve our present lives rather than mete out revengeful afterlives? Beyond certainty much good is possible.