Avoiding questions

[Angrboda]

I love it when Drich points out "flaws" in other people's thinking. Though given the volume of Coca-Cola snorted through my nose, if he keeps it up, I'm going to need a good ENT man.

I'm reminded of a Stephen King short story about a woman who commuted to work daily in some small Midwestern city. She kept looking for shortcuts into and out of town in order to reduce her travel time. Eventually, she had found shortcuts that not only shortened her travel time, but ended up traversing through other dimensions and universes. At the end of a commute, she would be pulling things off the grill of her car which no man has heretofore seen, or is likely to again anytime soon.

For many religious people, it is simply a matter of the pathways in their brain not going through the usual or expected routes, and like some absurd Fedex package system, it can only route a package two towns away by first going through the central hub in some far off location. There are many destinations where the theist's express bus simply does not stop, and whole sections of towns with permanent detours. Much of Christian apologetics is like some insane urban bypass project designed by an engineer beholden to Lovecraftian gods. In a word, in the mind of the theist, for many questions, the answer is simply that you cannot get there from here. I'm perfectly comfortable with this fact, as amusing and infuriating as it is at times to try to deal with these strange orbits. This is the way we humans are built. It's a part of nature just as tooth and claw is. And while I might fight for better maps and more productive routes, I don't blame the driver or pedestrian for the condition of the road. It sounds like I'm working up to something, don't it? Psych!