The will of God that man seldom prosper.

 The will of God that man seldom prosper.

Looking for something to read this morning, and I found a book Bob NLN* gave me for Christmas - a surprise, I hadn’t seen Bob for quite a while. The book: Why Can’t We Get Along? a conversation among a Muslim, a Christian, and a Jew, all academics or former academics in Britain.**

     And here’s the first line: “Religions are seldom complimentary about human nature.” Moreover, “the human predicament is rooted in human nature itself.”

     It is a “predicament”***: the plot is contrived before the actors come on stage. Anyone that has read the play - or even about the play - can predict its outcome, for example, that, a miserable sinner for more than sixty years, I will be sitting here constipated, nursing a bad back.
     Right?

01.26.19

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   * No last name. My former uncredentialed cognitive behavioral therapist. See here.

  ** Dawoud El-Alami, Dan Cohn-Sherbok, and George D. Cryssides, Why Can’t They Get Along? A conversation between a Muslim, a Jew and a Christian. Oxford: Lion Books, 2014.

 *** from the Latin prae + dicare (not dicere), to announce - or pronounce - beforehand.