[wideminded]

A Jehovah's Witness was once trying to give me the intelligent design argument. He said: "Did this watch make itself? Did this house make itself? Then how could the universe make itself?" I don't think watches or houses make themselves, but maybe the universe made itself.

I came out as an atheist at the age of 15 and haven't looked back. I respect many things about the church and still see the value and power of it when I attend funerals, etc., but I'm not a believer. Strangely enough, my son is planning to go to seminary. Maybe that's the way things work. I don't try to talk him out of this, partly because I can see that theology turns on his mind more than most other things.

I would be glad to stand up and be counted as an atheist, but the "bright" thing is just ridiculous and hopefully won't catch on.

[LanPB01]

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