Some More of God’s Greatest Mistakes

things could be worse if i realised i was the one in the mirror.

Students, colleagues, members of the press, welcome.  Most of us have experienced times in our lives when we wondered about the problem of evil in our society and in the larger world.  Theologians such as myself have striven through the ages to explain the existence of such things as poverty, war and human cruelty, with limited success.  Today, however, I am able to say with confidence that the reason the world so often seems to be a frightening and confusing place is that we are, in fact, on the wrong side of the mirror.

In retrospect, it seems quite obvious that no benevolent creator would have purposefully made a reality so filled with contradiction and suffering unless it was as a shadowy mirror realm that could serve as a cautionary example to members of His true creation.  These others, whom I have come to think of as True Humans, can see us clearly through their own mirrors and are reminded when they look in on us of how lucky they are to live in such an orderly, harmonious and peaceful universe.

Thus we can be reassured that we are, in our small way, an indispensable part of God’s plan.  Without our ugly and unpleasant shadow realm the true reality through the mirror could never be realised as a beneficent and wondrous place it is.  While we can, unfortunately, never experience true happiness or peace ourselves we can, perhaps, take comfort in the knowledge that our existence is vital to the happiness and well-being of the True Humans, of whom we are but poor copies.