Quote:What did the leader say in response? When the youth director asked if god played a role in their career aspirations, did they mean going into a theologically-inclined field or whether or not god is consulting with them on the matter spiritually?
My youth director was asking if God played a spiritual role in choosing my career (i.e. praying every night for career guidance). I was actually surprised when another kid in my youth group agreed with the points I was making! In response, the youth director gave a mini sermon about how they "felt exactly the same way when they were my age" but that they "didn't give up on God." I then politely said that scholarship money doesn't fall from heaven like manna for the Israelites. It was at this point in the conversation that the youth director changed the subject.
"If your god has to make peace with me in my final hour when he has my whole lifetime to prove his existence to me...do you think I should bother?"
"But the happiness of an atheist is neither the vacuous enjoyment of a fool, nor the short-lived pleasure of a rogue. It is rather the expression of a disposition that has ceased to torture itself with foolish fancies, or perplex itself with useless beliefs." - Chapman Cohen
"But the happiness of an atheist is neither the vacuous enjoyment of a fool, nor the short-lived pleasure of a rogue. It is rather the expression of a disposition that has ceased to torture itself with foolish fancies, or perplex itself with useless beliefs." - Chapman Cohen
