For someone half as smart, you'd be a work of art
The first speaker is a Holocaust survivor.
"It is said that the Messiah will come at the end of the world."
"But it was not the end of the world."
"It was. He just did not come."
"Why did he not come?"
"This was the lesson we learned from everything that happened - there is no God. It took all of the hidden faces for Him to prove this to us."
"What if it was a challenge of your faith?"
"I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this."
--Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated (which is amazing, by the way. I'd recommend it, but I know that nobody actually listens to anything that anybody recommends them anyway.)
I had always thought that the argument that the occurrence of bad things to good people proved that God didn't exist was stupid. But I guess perspective is everything.
"It is said that the Messiah will come at the end of the world."
"But it was not the end of the world."
"It was. He just did not come."
"Why did he not come?"
"This was the lesson we learned from everything that happened - there is no God. It took all of the hidden faces for Him to prove this to us."
"What if it was a challenge of your faith?"
"I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this."
--Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated (which is amazing, by the way. I'd recommend it, but I know that nobody actually listens to anything that anybody recommends them anyway.)
I had always thought that the argument that the occurrence of bad things to good people proved that God didn't exist was stupid. But I guess perspective is everything.