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enjoying the 'good things' of life) and a purposive life, a life that is good for me as well as others.
Religion concerns itself with man's salvation and can provide a framework to deal with the general situations in life and with specific problems in particular. 'Good' and 'evil' can be taken as points of reference in an ethical sense applied to perfections and imperfections in human character. A morally perfect individual can live with, without, and inspite of a belief in God, as much as a theist or an atheist. So I have to accept the events in my life - the good, the bad and the ugly gracefully and learn to live with and enjoy. pleasure and pain, happiness and suffering, ups and downs. For, if there is no evil within, there can be no evil without.
The dilemma gets resolved if we remember the following quotes:
"For every evil under the sun,
There is a remedy or there is none;
If there is one, try and find it, If there is none, never mind it."
(William Hazlitt)
"I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God."
(Helen Keller)
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