Dave is putting God to the test.
Which Christians would say is a big no-no. But hear him out on this…
Dave is an atheist. He says he’ll believe in God if he sees a miracle:
Burning bushes, disembodied hands writing on the wall, talking donkeys, water into wine – there are any number of Biblical precedents for things that I’d readily accept as evidence for God. But it doesn’t have to be anything fancy like that. Any small thing, that I could verify as being impossible by natural means, would at the very least force me to reconsider things very carefully.
There’s a standard argument against this, that I wouldn’t really reconsider anything; that my dark atheist soul is too far gone, and that I don’t want to believe in God for my own evil reasons, and wouldn’t change even if Jesus himself appeared before me. Apparently such people have some special insight into my mind and soul that I don’t have, because I’m pretty sure that I would change my mind.
All God would have to do to make Dave reconsider his atheism is take these soda can tabs…

… and link them together like so:

And if that happens, Dave will post the photo, go to church, and “tentatively accept the existence of God.”
I’m doing this to put my money where my mouth is, and show that my atheism [has] nothing to do with not wanting to believe in God, but rather not having the evidence to believe in God.
Of course the tabs will never get linked. Prayer doesn’t have that kind of power.
But if anyone here knows Dave, I have this *terrific* idea for a prank you can pull… 🙂
[tags]atheist, atheism, religion, faith[/tags]