Re: My mother, the athiest
- From: "rev.goetz" <jimgoetz316@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 31 Dec 2005 11:16:02 -0800
Logos wrote:
> We were all eating our Christmas dinners, sitting round the table.
>
> Then my mother suddenly blurted out: "I don't know if I believe in G_d
> anymore." You could hear a pin drop.
>
> I rose from my seat with indignation coursing through every fibre of my
> G_d-created body. "What do you mean?" I queried, in a hushed yet punishing
> tone.
>
> "Well, look at the fossil record, honey. I mean, the transitional forms --"
>
> I threw up my hands in exasperation, "Aw, momma, we been through this
> before! There are no transitional forms! Remember the gaps?"
>
> "And the carbon-dating," she said, tears streaming down her face, "what
> about the carbon dating?" She was teetering. Years of
> secularistic-materialistic-liberal propaganda had finally worn her down.
>
> "Momma, do I have to lug down the books again? Carbon-dating is a farce!
> There's too much variation in the results!"
>
> "You say that! You say that but if you saw this article I read --"
>
> "Article? What article?? Momma, what have you been reading?"
>
> "She sees these articles in her women's magazines, the magazine with the
> French name," intoned my aged father. "She just reads these things..."
>
> "It was an article," my mother finally confessed. "An article that
> discussed evolution. I knew it would be all lies, I knew it, but they're so
> convincing, those little devils, they're so convincing!" Then, she looked
> at me with big, pleading eyes and asked, "It's not true, honey, is it? It's
> not true. It's all a pack of lies! A pack of lies!" She put her hands
> over her face and sobbed into them.
>
> After some time, I looked her straight in the eye and said, "As G_d is my
> witness, I swear to you that there is a G_d. The evolutionists are wrong."
>
> That ended the conversation. But I knew then that my mother's faith could
> not be trusted again. They finally got to her. And that is the greatest
> evil of all.
Why does you mother think that evidence of evolution indicates atheism?
Please answer me, Logos.
.
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