I'm 71, when I was very young my mother taught me a little prayer, "Now I lay me down to sleep I pray to the Lord my soul to keep, if I should die before I awake, I pray to the Lord my soul to take." So as a toddler the belief in a higher power was instilled. Upon reaching puberty, the discussion of God would come up and several of my friends commented, "Yeah, well where did God come from? I don't believe any of it." I certainly couldn't answer that question but silently retained my belief in a higher power. My junior and senior year in college I developed an interest in higher end mathematics, calculus, geometry, advanced algebra and quantitative methods. I aced these classes because I enjoyed the logic of math. One plus one always equals two and there were no gray areas. Enjoying the reasoning of how one could determine the volume metrics of how much air was in a room was fascinating to understand. I graduated with a degree in finance and should have gone into engineering. But I was somewhat lacking in common sense. Logic is the truth.
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God's Atheist
Non-FictionI am God's atheist, a skeptic who finds the Bible's narratives implausible and absurd. The notion that Jesus died for my sins and the concept of Hell seem utterly preposterous. Twenty-one years ago, my wife Mary Jo and I were on our first cruise, ce...
