A good day to pass this one along -
An atheist was walking through the woods… when he stopped and thought: “What majestic trees! What powerful rivers! What beautiful animals!” Then, as he was walking along the river, he heard a rustling in the bushes behind him. He turned to look and saw a 7-foot grizzly charging towards him! He ran as fast as he could up the path. He looked over his shoulder and saw that the bear was closing in on him. He ran faster when he looked over his shoulder again, and saw that the bear was even closer! He tripped and fell on the ground. He rolled over to pick himself up but saw that the bear was right on top of him…
reaching for him with his left paw and raising his right paw to strike him.
At that instant the Atheist cried out, “Oh my God!” Time Stopped! The bear froze… And the forest was silent. As a bright light shone upon the man, a voice came out of the sky…
“You deny my existence for all these years… and try to teach others I don’t exist… and even credit creation to a cosmic accident? Do you expect me to help you out of this predicament? Am I to now count you as a believer?”
The atheist looked directly into the light, “Well, it would be hypocritical of me to suddenly ask you to treat me as a Christian now… but perhaps you could make the BEAR a Christian?
“Very well,” said God.
The light went out. The sounds of the forest resumed… And the bear dropped his right paw, brought both paws together, bowed his head and spoke: “Lord bless this food, which I am about to receive from thy bounty through Christ our Lord, Amen.”
No larger message. I just, you know: Think it’s funny.
heh,
That’s a good’n, that is
Reminds me of the story of a Priest who attended an atheist’s funeral. As he viewed the remains, the priest remarked “Poor man. All dressed up and nowhere to go.”
Respects,
Or the atheist crossed with a dyslexic who didn’t believe in Dog.
Or the agnostic, dyslexic, insomniac who stayed awake all night wondering if there really is a Dog.
Arguments about religious belief are mere semantic arguments: Just about everybody believes the sun will come up tomorrow (those who don’t can be ignored for our purposes).
So it gets down to depth of faith. The deeply religious can have very powerful survival tools that the ‘atheist’ cannot access. But then many atheists make atheism, for all practical purposes, a crackpot religion with most of religion’s faults and none of its virtues.
Was that good for you? It was good for me.
Heh,
There was also the case of the dyslexic devil-worshiper who sold his soul to santa…
Respects,
NB: It was an easy mistake, thinking that he was worshipping satan at the thorn pole… But when he realised that santa was just toying with him, he threatened to sleigh the jolly old fellow.
I wonder sometimes, about people like me, who just don’t have the religious temperament, like Elizabeth Tudor and myself. That is, we just don’t have the temporal lobes to entertain the “religious experience”, though we intellectually kinda lean toward the probability of the existence of a Deity.
That is, the Lord God Almighty may well exist, whether or not you believe in Him, or you may well believe in Him, even though He doesn’t exist.
Like Liz, I find it helpful to go through the rituals anyway.