Next time you hear someone say that they are doing something because it is God’s will just ask yourself – how do they know this?  How is it possible for any human to know what the divine wants?   Anything written down by a human, no matter how well meaning and sincere, will always be filtered through the human condition.  Indeed many generations of religious scholars have tried to interpret writings centuries old and tried to fit them to the modern condition. The true nature of the divine is unknowable. In the end I guess my philosophy, faith if you will, can be summed up by John 8:7

“…let him who is without sin cast the first stone…” 

Somehow I think the world would be such a better place if we stuck to this and I guess I have faith that one day we might just do this.