Hopalong Dare Along

A true agnostic will usually always slide slowly into the atheist column in my view. The reason they often give me is that people who say they do, don't. I made the same mistake as a child and carried it into my college years where I discovered I did. My class in logic finally sank into marblehead. 

So, then I ask how they defined God. Late at night after the goings on of various seminars I've known of several discussions which ironed that nicety out. But I only heard of one minster who did mention, on television yet, that "we" should preach on this.

But never I heard of anyone who did. I love the one about the supreme being, and another about "love." Many give me the "goalong" definition, that is go along with yours truly. That is when I spring my trap, all for the sheer delight of it, I confess. The I ask who does God say He is, that is, specifically? To which they respond again to their first, "according to me, their "all along go along."

One minister, a very interesting guy I discovered, who from pulpit said he did not "believe" in Jesus. It sounded to me like he was saying, like you, perhaps my imagination. So afterward at coffee, I asked him what he did believe. He gave many long and repetitive answers of what he did not believe.

One wonders what he was preaching from the pulpit at all. I finally concluded from his comments that it was because his wife died. I was tempted to tell him, that was a selfish thing she did to him. Likely never gave him a thought, just off and died on him. BTW he gets a salary for this so maybe it was not so bad as imagined. Nothing like a little lucre to clean things up a bit.