A Barren Victory
Penn Jillette, the taller, louder half of the magic team “Penn and Teller” recently wrote for NPR’s “This I Believe Series”:
"This I believe: I believe there is no God."
He went on to write:
“Having taken that step, it informs every moment of my life. Im not greedy. I have love, blue skies, rainbows and Hallmark cards, and that has to be enough. It has to be enough, but its everything in the world and everything in the world is plenty for me. It seems just rude to beg the invisible for more. Just the love of my family that raised me and the family Im raising now is enough that I dont need heaven. I won the huge genetic lottery and I get joy every day.”
Is Penn Jillette right? Have we been fooled? Have the preachers and the founders of our churches deluded us? Maybe their faith is simply wishful thinking—blindness—and we have all inadvertently done like Jesus warned in Matthew, chapter 15: we’ve been the blind followers of blind leaders, with the entire congregation doomed to fall into the nearest philosophical ditch.
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