How would you react if a trustworthy person offered to engineer genetically a future child or grandchild of yours so he would live a life of happiness—with the only cost being a permanent relinquishing of the option of being sad?
What if sadness sometimes leads to breakthroughs? What if some emptiness comes from God to make us realize that we need Him to fill the holes in our souls?Â
While sadness can lead to breakthroughs, I am reasonably sure that being happy would not diminish the amount of breakthroughs. The joy of a breakthrough would still exist.
If one could be made so happy as to not have a need for God anymore, one would have to question just how durable that relationship was in the first place. Was the relationship with God just a patch on the psychological wound?
