Robert was once an atheist

Robert was once an atheist

fiction
edward w pritchard

Once there was a wise atheist but he decide after thinking about it at length and came to believe in God.

Robert was a newly elected politician and he was going through a plethora of emotional changes as he looked at and experienced how the world worked.

Robert had a young daughter who he loved more than anything and he wanted and needed to protect her and keep her innocence.

Robert was becoming older and he no longer saw the world as good or benevolent or bad and evil.

Robert read and thought and went out into nature and talked to his wife and talked to his brother and then listened to the radio and was still confused.

Robert thought rationally and logically and decided that people who lived before couldn't all be wrong about everything and he decided to find someone he admired and see what they said on the situation.

Robert decided to look into Gandhi who he admired. Gandhi was known throughout the world, even by his enemies, as Mahatma meaning great person venerated for spirituality and high mindedness. Gandhi was also a practicing lawyer for a long time. Robert worked with and knew lawyers and their practical way of looking at things. He didn't know any Mahatma's but it seemed like a good combination, a lawyer with high mindedness and spirituality.

Robert read what Gandhi said about why he believed in God later in life after seeing a lot of the world's vice and suffering.

Gandhi said four things: in relation to God [and Hinduism]
1. everything in the universe is pervaded by God
2. Renounce it and then enjoy it
3 Don't covet anyone's wealth or possessions
4 all rulers must call themselves servants of God [ everything else follows from that]

Robert doesn't feel God in the world, or see God, and it is perfectly reasonable for the world, and universe to exist without God. Logically the existence of God seems unlikely, born of our fears.

Robert had decided to believe in God at this time. Perhaps it is irrelevant what he thinks.