Posted on 07/01/2021 2:23:29 PM PDT by JAG 5000
Bobby Foole And His Little God Of Gold.
By JAG
July 1, 2021
"The fact is", said Bobby Foole, "I truly LOVE sin and evil and I hotly crave to practice both of 'em."
"I understand", replied Harris Dookins, Foole's philosopher counselor.
"Moreover", added Foole, "I crave to be my own God because I don't want my Creator telling Me what I can and cannot do."
"So you do know there is a God that created you?", asked Dookins.
"Of course I know that, but I am determined to suppress that knowledge and put it out of my mind."
"So you can habitually sin and do all the evil you want to do?"
"You got it", replied Bobby Foole.
"You got a problem here with this", smiled Dookins.
"What problem?"
"Your problem", said Dookins, "is this: If you openly and transparently admit to yourself and to the world around you that you love evil and want to be evil, then that's eventually going to cause you to come to look bad ~~ both to yourself and in the eyes of your friends. But not to worry, I have the perfect solution for you."
"What is that solution?", muttered Foole.
"You need a God that will tell you repeatedly, until you come to believe it, that your evil is not really evil, but it's really the good."
"Then I can actually feel good about doing evil?"
"Exactly", replied Dookins, "you're beginning to see the Big Picture."
"Yes I am", replied Bobby Foole, "but what kind of God could it be?"
"Oh any kind of God will work just fine, as long as it's not the true God that created the Universe and you. You can have a God made from gold and set up his little temple in your living room and put your little God Of Gold within it. That'd get the job done."
"He'd need a name, wouldn't he?", replied Foole.
"Yes of course he would, but that's easy. Call him Baal. That's what your historical kin chose to do."
"I really and truly LOVE this idea", said Foole, "and I'm very glad you told me about this."
"This'll give you exactly what you want", offered Dookins. "For example, if you decide one day that you want to commit adultery with your neighbor's wife, you'll simply have Baal supply you with reasons why that's a good thing to do, and not an evil thing to do because Baal is God, and God said it was good."
"Or if I decide one day that I want to sample homosexual sodomy?, added Foole.
"Yes of course," replied Dookins, "anything you want to do in the sexual areas, will be declared good and right by your God Baal."
"Wow!", exclaimed Foole. "I get it now. All this means that I Foole, am my own God. My God Baal is actually Me, and it is Me that decides that sin and evil is really right amd good."
"I'd say you now understand the principle fully", smiled Dookins. "You've got it."
"Yes", replied Foole. "Foole is God. I LOVE it."
"By the way", said Dookins, "yoy don't actually have to have a literal little God Of Gold in a little temple in your living room. You can skip all that and create your own abstract God and set him up within your heart and mind. Besides doing it that way is more modern 21st century sophisticated and with just a little thought, you can make your God sound very intellectual and bestow upon him academic credibility."
"A scholarly God?", grinned Bobby Foole.
"Yes very much so", exclaimed Dookins. "You could give your God names like Rationalism or Empiricism or Agnosticism or even Atheism."
"Wait a minute", said Bobby Foole, "I can have more that one God. I can have as many Gods as I need in order for Them to justify my evil and sin and declare my evil and sin to really be good and right behavior."
"Ah", smiled Dookins, "the pupil has become the teacher."
"You bet", grinned Foole, "and I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I now have four Gods and counting and their names are Rationalism, Empiricism, Agnosticism, and Atheism and these four Gods have a Top God over them."
"Zeus over all, is that it?", inquired Dookins.
"Yes,", said Bobby Foole, "and my Top God will give Me his blessings to do all the vile sins and evil that My heart desires."
"What's the name of your Top God?", asked Dookins.
"Science", said Bobby Foole, "his name is Science."
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Who is Bobby Foole and why should I care?
Who? What? Where is that dialog from, a movie?
This is some stupid sh!t.
Bobby Foole, is a fool. He does not believe in God, but he believes Science id God.
No not from a movie.
I wrote each and every word of that dialogue.
JAG
You nailed it.
Thanks for reading the piece.
JAG
Spoken like a true philistine.
JAG
Who are you and why should anyone care?
JAG
Somebody had to. 8>)
I am a reader who had a question. It is up to the writer to make himself understood. Maybe a preface to explain what we were reading would have been helpful.
I've heard of John Q. Public, Joe Sixpack, John Bull, Percival Milquetoast and the like but I had never heard of Bobby Foole.
A search found the name "Bobby Foole" in newspaper archives from 1861 and 1925, but the archiver wanted a fee to view the text.
In any case, the writing fell flat for me, but I see now it wasn't written for me anyway. Cheers!
“I am a reader who had a question. It is up to the writer to make himself understood. Maybe a preface to explain what we were reading would have been helpful.
I’ve heard of John Q. Public, Joe Sixpack, John Bull, Percival Milquetoast and the like but I had never heard of Bobby Foole.
A search found the name “Bobby Foole” in newspaper archives from 1861 and 1925, but the archiver wanted a fee to view the text.
In any case, the writing fell flat for me, but I see now it wasn’t written for me anyway. Cheers!”___Higgmeister
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Thank you for your interest in my piece.
Booby Foole is a fictional character that I invented in order to make the points I made in my piece up there.
Booby Foole represents the secular rationalists and so-called atheist activists that haunt Thread World on the Internet At Large and attack Christianity. I wrote the piece from an Evangelical perspective and as a traditional Bible believing Christian.
By the way there is no such thing as an atheist. All men KNOW there is a God that created them — and my piece makes THAT point too.
Romans 1:19-20 says “since what may be known about
God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to
them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible
qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have
been clearly seen, being understood from what has
been made, so that people are without excuse.”
Note the particulars in Romans 1:19-20
{1) There is information that can be known about God.
{2} This information is plain to men.
{3} God Himself has made it plain to them.
{4} It has been plain to them since the creation of the world.
{5} God’s eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen
{6} All this in understood from what God created.
{7} Therefore men are without excuse {for not believing in God.}
Romans 1:19-20 is the germ principle of the Teleological Argument
for the existence of God — the argument from the Intelligent Design
of the Human Person, the Earth-Sun-Moon-Stars, and the Universe.
Best Regards.
JAG
Scot Me Up Beamy.
Thoughts For Today:
“Strength and honor”__Maximus
“Brothers, what we do in life, echoes in Eternity.”__Maximus
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“Somebody had to. 8>)”__Robert DeLong
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Just curious.
What does 8>)
mean?
Best.
JAG
Very well done! Glad you shared it here. Thank you! It is similar in style to C.S. Lewis’ “The Screwtape Letters.”
8>)
It is just an emoji/smiley face, probably wearing eyeglasses.
Interestingly many years ago, I worked a night shift with an atheist who was also gay. He was in the closet but had been outed to me by a mutual friend. I asked him what do you think will happen when you die, and he said nothing. He said the chemical process that caused thought and awareness just stops. So it's just a semantic difference to say there is no such thing as an atheist. Sure they have heard the Word of God but they reject it out of hand with no wonderment of the mystery of life at all. All of God's secrets and miracles are not even considered. It's a hopeless existence they choose to live. They refuse to seek the Majesty of God in Christ that the Holy Spirt shows us.
Thanks.
And thank you for reading my piece.
God Bless.
JAG
Oh okay.
Cool.
Best.
JAG
Thanks for reading my piece and thank you for your comments.
God Bless.
JAG
PS
You’d like Maximus.
Give Gladiator a shot some time.
Its an interesting movie.
It has no cursing and no nudity.
Lotta violence though.
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