Cutting/Pasting: The Return

No time, no time but heard the below on NPR this morning and was struck by how eloquently Penn Jillette (yes, the magician) summed up similar thoughts to mine on god, or lack thereof:

"I believe that there is no God. I'm beyond Atheism. Atheism is not believing in God. Not believing in God is easy -- you can't prove a negative, so there's no work to do. You can't prove that there isn't an elephant inside the trunk of my car. You sure? How about now? Maybe he was just hiding before. Check again. Did I mention that my personal heartfelt definition of the word "elephant" includes mystery, order, goodness, love and a spare tire? ...

Believing there is no God means the suffering I've seen in my family, and indeed all the suffering in the world, isn't caused by an omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent force that isn't bothered to help or is just testing us, but rather something we all may be able to help others with in the future. No God means the possibility of less suffering in the future.

Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-o and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have."
-- From "This I Believe," on NPR's Morning Edition

PS- I have so very much to tell you. Maybe there will be time tonight.
PPS- I passed the California Bar Exam.
PPPS- Dick Cheney is the essence of all that is very, very, very not good.