Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl by N. D. Wilson

Author:N. D. Wilson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2011-02-21T05:00:00+00:00

Question: Would you rather die instantly, with a turtle beside you, leaving behind an amusing story to make chuckling audiences throughout millennia feel just a little bit guilty for their laughter, or be chained to a rock and have your miraculously replicating liver eternally breakfasted upon? Eagles are involved in both stories, but who was kinder to their character?

Hamlet was no atheist. God was very real for him, as was his own guilt. He did, however, come to the conclusion that the play in which he lived couldn’t possibly be designed by an author, or in any way be intentional. His reasoning went something like this: If there is an author, then he must either be poor and lack control of his art, or he must be evil and malicious. How could a good and competent author ever allow such hardship in my life?

He has a point. Ophelia dies (to mention only one casualty). Why? She was an innocent, a bystander. What greater good did that death serve? Either the author disliked it and was unable to stop it, or he liked it and is a foul brute indeed.

The most satisfactory answer is clearly that there was no author.

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