Christ Doesn't Deny
Your Existence
Jonathan Garner
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From: "Jonathan Garner"
To: "Positive Atheism" <editor@positiveatheism.org>
Subject: Re: update!!! :Þ
Date: Monday, June 26, 2000 2:51 PM
Hi, whoever this may be.
I was just wondering, I know that Christ doesn't deny your existence...so why do you deny His?
You know, for 19 years I denied Christ. I thought for some reason I would have a better life...man was I wrong! Finally, after I came to a point where I just got sick of being alone, I went to a nearby church. It just so happened that they had a guest speaker that day who presented a message like I had never heard before. I mean this guy had all kinds of physical problems such as cerebral palsy, 15% lung capacity...just to name a few.
But through it all this guy could stand up and look out into that audience and so passionately say, "Just taste...taste and see how good God is". You see, I had been so decieved for so long that I had never really even stopped listening to my own rationality of why things are the way they are that I never had taken the chance to even taste of the hope that our creator had to offer.
So please, just taste and see how good God is...you won't regret it?
In love,
Jonathan
From: "Positive Atheism" <editor@positiveatheism.org>
To: "Jonathan Garner"
Subject: Re: update!!! :Þ
Date: Monday, June 26, 2000 4:02 PM
I was just wondering, I know that Christ doesn't deny your existence...so why do you deny His?
Christ doesn't deny my existence because he can't: he doesn't exist.
You know, for 19 years I denied Christ.
Good for you!
Actually, we needn't go that far: we can safely ignore the claims of the Christians and trouble ourselves with more important matters.
Besides, ignoring the Christ claims is no great accomplishment.
Finally, after I came to a point where I just got sick of being alone, I went to a nearby church.
I went to the nearby bar. They won't ostracize me for not drinking Budweiser or for liking Guinness and Jameson. They won't even grumble if I ask them to pour the Guinness slowly, like they do in Dublin.
But through it all this guy could stand up and look out into that audience and so passionately say, "Just taste...taste and see how good God is".
They sure suckered him, didn't they?
And he turned around and suckered you!
Where else is a guy like that going to find a good-paying job? I'd do much better, financially, if I were stumping for Christ or if I were a New-Age (rhymes with "sewage") guru of some sort than I do with this endeavor.
So please, just taste and see how good God is...you won't regret it?
Just tell me if he's raspberry or chocolate or something else. I don't have good enough senses to detect something that is not availing Himself to be detected. It's as if there's nothing there to detect at all! Since you tell me you can detect the existence of a god through your taste buds, then I want you to describe what He tastes like!
Cliff Walker
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