“You’re a cynic.”

Jerry the Evangelical Neighbor also known as Jerry the Neo-Con.

One of the central points of neo-conservatism is the deliberate proliferation of democracy throughout the world. Democratic nations tend to not wage war against each other, at least not the kind involving bombs, air raids, missiles and suicide guerilla tactics. What ( Read more... )

“So what is the meaning of life?

Jerry the Evangelical Neighbor poses the most of trite of the trite questions as we linger over coffee and cinnamon rolls. The sun on my deck warms my face and I feel really good on this windy spring like day. It’s great to be alive.

“That depends”

“What do you mean?”

“I mean the meaning of life depends on whose ( Read more... )

“What if you’re wrong?”

Jerry the evangelical neighbor was challenging my atheism again.

“What if you’re wrong?” I ask in return.

He doesn’t think he is wrong. Actually it’s more than that. He believes, which in his mind equates to “knows,” that he is right. The bottom line is, of course, that if I am wrong we all know what happens to me according ( Read more... )