Starting Point
Spent some time thinking about a guy claiming to be an atheist. Actually one of the guys from Penn and Teller is an atheist and it sort of brought the subject to mind. Kathy also claims to know a guy who paints himself as atheistic so the wheels started turning.
I always want to ask the atheists about the starting point.
"We were spun out of dust," they might say.
"The universe was created by a big bang."
Yet where did the dust come from?
Who set the big bang in motion?
A person who claims to be agnostic is actually someone who is a bit more in the know in my book. Being agnostic is sort of like admitting that you have no freaking idea. You don't dismiss the notion of God out of hand, but you don't buy all in either.
What gets me about the people who are atheist and practice it as an art form is that where does the hope come from?
If this is it, this is shit.
And not having any thoughts of an afterlife sort of sets you up to doing whatever the hell you want to do now, doesn't it?
Why be nice?
Who do you talk to when the mere humans don't help clear the mind?
And most of all...where did the dust come from?
Of course, none of us really have all that much insight into any of it. Tom Cruise doesn't really know. Tim Tebow isn't really sure. I certainly as hell can't grasp it all at once.
Yet doesn't holding tight to some sort of promise bring meaning into your life?
The nuns told me it would happen, but I always feel better when I say a quick prayer, here or there, in praise, in thanks or in need. I seriously wonder what the atheists do when the shit hits the fan.
Then, as luck might have it, I was up in the middle of the night again and was caught watching another bad Law & Order episode. The all-knowing, all-seeing, brilliant detectives were wrapping up another case.
(A little aside here: Don't you love when three of the detectives are talking and they exclaim what a difficult job it is going to be to identify a red Toyota, one of 40 million in the NYC area, that just happened to have four Firestone tires that another detective...usually Ice-T or Munch strolls by and exclaims: "We found it! It's a block and a half from here!")
Anyway in this Law & Order there was an interview with a convicted killer who was awaiting the death penalty. Of course, just before meeting the needle he was preaching about finding the love of God.
"Now you found God after shooting all those people?" one of the brilliant detectives asked.
"What else do I have?" the guy responded.
And sometimes I feel like answering it that way for the atheists. Like Munch or Ice-T I'll hit them with the brilliant questions:
1). What started it?
and
2). What else do you have?
I always want to ask the atheists about the starting point.
"We were spun out of dust," they might say.
"The universe was created by a big bang."
Yet where did the dust come from?
Who set the big bang in motion?
A person who claims to be agnostic is actually someone who is a bit more in the know in my book. Being agnostic is sort of like admitting that you have no freaking idea. You don't dismiss the notion of God out of hand, but you don't buy all in either.
What gets me about the people who are atheist and practice it as an art form is that where does the hope come from?
If this is it, this is shit.
And not having any thoughts of an afterlife sort of sets you up to doing whatever the hell you want to do now, doesn't it?
Why be nice?
Who do you talk to when the mere humans don't help clear the mind?
And most of all...where did the dust come from?
Of course, none of us really have all that much insight into any of it. Tom Cruise doesn't really know. Tim Tebow isn't really sure. I certainly as hell can't grasp it all at once.
Yet doesn't holding tight to some sort of promise bring meaning into your life?
The nuns told me it would happen, but I always feel better when I say a quick prayer, here or there, in praise, in thanks or in need. I seriously wonder what the atheists do when the shit hits the fan.
Then, as luck might have it, I was up in the middle of the night again and was caught watching another bad Law & Order episode. The all-knowing, all-seeing, brilliant detectives were wrapping up another case.
(A little aside here: Don't you love when three of the detectives are talking and they exclaim what a difficult job it is going to be to identify a red Toyota, one of 40 million in the NYC area, that just happened to have four Firestone tires that another detective...usually Ice-T or Munch strolls by and exclaims: "We found it! It's a block and a half from here!")
Anyway in this Law & Order there was an interview with a convicted killer who was awaiting the death penalty. Of course, just before meeting the needle he was preaching about finding the love of God.
"Now you found God after shooting all those people?" one of the brilliant detectives asked.
"What else do I have?" the guy responded.
And sometimes I feel like answering it that way for the atheists. Like Munch or Ice-T I'll hit them with the brilliant questions:
1). What started it?
and
2). What else do you have?
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