By J.W. -- Directions: O ne day you wake up to discover you are God. Use your gut reaction to answer the following questions. A. After creating people you must determine the level of devotion that you will require. You will: Make it real easy. I'm easy. Make it moderate so only the better half make it. Make it impossible to meet my demands. B. When creating justice you would: Make karma so people get what they deserve. What justice? Just watch it go down. Make the bad burn forever. C. When someone fails to meet your demands you would: Tell them not to do it again. Make them say they are sorry after punishing them. Torture and kill an innocent man for their short comings. 4. A powerful leader defies your demands. You will: Punish him. Kill him. Make him an example. Kill the children of his citizens. D. When determining the nature of people you: Make them highly inclined to follow my rules. Make them free as a bird to do as they wish. Make them incline...

By J.W. I t is amazing how blind I was. I would say anything to justify my belief. Like a lawyer pulling the strings of the grand jury . I am persuasive. "Time Saving Truth from Falsehood and Envy" via Wikipedia Neither a pastor nor raised in the church, my apologetics turned the stomachs of some hardcore atheists. I did not know then what gave me my power. The desperate hope of mankind to find meaning, purpose, and value -- in the world -- in themselves. It didn’t occur to me that they were responding to the bold display of love and vulnerability because that spirit is attractive. Who doesn’t want to be loved? Who wouldn’t want to be saved? Who doesn’t want to find purpose? But like Neo in the Matrix, there was a splinter in my mind. There was something wrong with the world. It did not match my view. Perhaps the question that was most damaging to me was: “Do I want to live forever?” No, I do not. Truthfully, oblivion sounds like a very merciful end to life. No c...