I love Dashboard Confessional. It's been awhile since I played my fav album of his, All The Things You Fear The Most, but it's a great listen (and sing-along).
Psalm 14 starts off with the famous line,
"The fool says in his heart,
'There is no God.'"
That about says it right. It's funny how arrogant people can be when they think they know a lot. The really smart ones, like Albert Einstein, said they barely knew anything. I've heard it said that he said that he thinks there is about 3% of what is to be known that can be known by man; and he apparently estimated that maybe he knew 1%. But yet a 20-something fool will gladly inform us of what he/she knows. It's like anything -- the ones with skill and talent let the skill and talent speak for themselves. They don't have to brag about it or announce it. To say that there is no God is okay. I mean, God can handle our mischief and foolishness, but that doesn't bode well for us. We can continue in our folly. He'll let us go to Hell.
The smarter ones will call themselves "Agnostics," which means they are ignorant, or ignoramuses. They at least admit that they don't know if there is a God or not.
The Christian, though, can actually live like an atheist. Their behavior can tell the outside world and/or (much worse) God Himself. If we want to be honest, we will boil things down to their essence every once in a while to see how we're doing.
Well, as the publisher of HM Magazine, I get 15 copies of a new issue overnighted to me. I'm looking at the new issue (May/June) right now. It's exciting. One of the first things I notice (after staring at the cover) each time is how the ads seem to match. This is always an "accident," or is it Providential? I don't plan this. We sell certain spots to certain advertisers (and they certainly don't confer amongst themselves: 'Hey, I'm on page 2. What page are you on? Would you like to match colors? I'm using a Pantone Red 485 in my ad...' So this is always a cool thing.
Posted by Doug Van Pelt at April 20, 2005 09:19 AM