A 15 year old young man asked me what I thought of people who have no faith. I said, "Everyone has faith in something. They have faith in something which they think will make them happy. It may be faith in money, friends, new clothes, their sports team, it can be any number of things. If you want to know what a person puts their faith in ask them to answer this question. The thing that matters the most to me in my life is __________. What do they fill in the blank with?"
The young man said, "So you don't believe in atheists?"
"Atheist is one of those categories that monotheistic deity believers have made up. No I don't believe in atheism. Like I said, everyone believes in something even the nihilists who believe in nothing and death."
"Okay," the young man said. "I appreciate your thinking."
"What do you believe in?" I asked.
"My family," he said.
As Kurt Vonnegut used to say, "And so it goes............."
No comments:
Post a Comment