Karma v. Grace

So at the end of last summer I was in the middle of a 6 foot trench shoveling dirt with the passion of a landslide when a major revelation came upon me. Not the 'Gabriel in the hole in the side of a mountain' type of revelation, because we all know those are bunk. I was working with the most self-righteous, stoned out of his mind all the time, relativistic, self contradictory, spring loaded in the pissed off position, 220lb construction guy. He definitely needed to smoke pot, otherwise he would of gone postal, more than once leaving a trail of dead bodies and broken machinery in his wake. He contributed to this because he was so ridiculously contradictory and driven by caveman like logic to get the job done while destroying all persons in the way. This forced me to analyze him and see why he was such a hypocrite in action and speech. And come to think of it, it was more of an illumination than a revelation. This is because it was a new light on an old truth. This illumination meandered into my conscience along the river course of experience like this, "Karma does not give me enough Justice, this world is way too screwed up for that idea to work." Essentially this world is too evil to have it all repayed in a thousand lifetimes. And secondly it gives no good definition of 'where' good comes from. Like to say that fathers loving their sons, nuns binding up the wounds of aids victims in Africa, or US Marines doing humanitarian aid in southeast Asia is from some non-sensical, ominous, pseudo light power being above all and in all things at all times even when they are evil(I don't think that made much sense, but that's how it comes across). But in contradistinction the God of the Bible is supremely good and ordains evil that He might become more and more glorious at all times. The reason I'm writing this is to get you to read this interview with Bono from U2 where he picks up on kind of the same thing. Its really good.