Interesting conversation at the repair shop

[nadinbrzezinski]

So I took the car to the shop this morning... and of course they had CNN on the storm in the east.

Now it is wickedly hot round these parts... so the lady besides me turned to weather...

Well I mentioned that I would not want to be anybody at an EOC in the East Coast right now...

Well she said, and I quote... "we need to pray for them!"

"Ok, I hope the people went to the store and got ready with food, water, batteries..."

"Well they still need to be practical but we need to pray for a miracle..."

"Yes, prayer will help you, but people in the path of the storm need things that cannot be delivered by any god."

She dropped it, another gentleman asked, if I believed in any god. He was insulted I guess.

I told him... if there is one it really does not play favorites or play a role in human history. If such a good existed then all the horrors and tragedies would be stopped for the righteous right? Oh and do not give me the story of job.

So do you believe in god...

Not in one that plays favorites at all in human history. Perhaps there is a god particle (Higss bossom) but that god really has no time for us teeny little critters living on the third planet going around a yellow start in an insignificant arm of the Milky way...And yes, before you say it, I also believe in science and evolution and rational thought, which also means getting ready is the rational thing to do. Pray only after you get ready... if that is what you need to do for your own religious reasons. But your first priority is to get that water, not hope it gets delivered.

He looked surprised and shocked... you have to understand making this statement in that particular part of the county. means he just met a rare quantity... and that goes for the both of them.

I really get tired of people pushing their views on me. And yes I mean it... if there is a god (the big bang might be the place) it really does not intervene in human history... but for those who believe in a god... get ready and then pray... serious.

Oh and I did not expect the weather talk to turn into a cosmology\theology talk either.