Is faith a sign of intellectual laziness?

Am I starting to have “faith” because I’m intellectually lazy? Do I want to shuffle off responsibility for things on to some remote god that I can blame for things? It sure might take the pressure off me if there was a god. Things happen. They have nothing to do with me (or are not under my control). I need to just accept this. I don’t need for there to ba a higher power to explain that things aren’t always going to go my way. The big problem, however, is how do you justify morality or objective standards of behavior if there is no god to spank you for misbehaving?

Morgan and School
Our school asked to have a meeting on Wednesday about Morgan. They want to move him to a new school that deals with behavior problems. Morgan’s behavour problem is wantering off (link to October story). They daid this would be a temporary move. Ash and I were concerned about disrupting his routine, especially near the end of the school year. For those of you who don’t know, routine is the mothers milk of autism. People with autism are daily assaulted with sensations they can’t block out or filter like you or I can, and they are in stress mode all the time. Routines and habits make things better for them, because that is one less thing for them to worry about. They know how their day is going to go, because they have a routine.

We thought this would be a couple of weeks, but it turns out this could be for the entire next school year. Temporary is a relative term here. On Monday, we will visit the new school to see the classroom and meet the teachers and principal. Right now my main concern is how they plan to change his behavior. What are their methods? Do they involve restraints? I just don’t know. I need to see what they do before I will agree to send Morgan.

If we decide to send him there, I’ll be speaking to someone about whether he will even be going back to his regular school when he’s done at this new school. Should he go back to his current school? If the problem is only with him, then yes. But is it? I don’t know.