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HILLBILLY MIRROR After living in the remote wilderness of Kentucky all his life, an old hillbilly decided it was time to visit the big city. In one of the stores he picks up a mirror and looks in it. Not ever having seen one before, he remarked at the image staring back at him, "How about that! Here's a picture of my daddy." He bought the 'picture', but on the way home he remembered his wife Lizzy didn't like his father. So he hung it in the barn and every morning before leaving for the fields, he would go there and look at it. Lizzy began to get suspicious of these many trips to the barn. One day after her husband left, she searched the barn and found the mirror. As she looked into the glass, she fumed, "So that's the ugly bitch he's runnin' around with."

A friend of mine wrote this. thought i'd share it with who ever wants to read it. I have recently been presented with a group of individuals who have laid claim to the idea that God can not exist. If He (or She or they) did exist, than would the God position, one of presumed omnipotence, create a kind of moral imperative to employ the power in the removal of human suffering. If this power is in fact present, and God does not employ it in the protection of innocents (to be perfectly clear, it is rare that one refers to the unversal removal of suffering - even the guilty suffer) than God's existence itself seems to be brought into question. This questioning itself presents an active rejection. You can't know what you can't know, and sooner or later a blind decision has to be made - belief or disbelief. The evidence is human suffering - the act of faith is the rejection of God. But it is specifically this ability to reject the possibility of God which contains the cause of cruelty, ignorance, and apathy as well as their inherent result - suffering. Affliction is not conditioned through God's lack of interference. If God can not contradict himself and God has declared humanity as his "image," how can God then prevent free will? Does he become a domestic servant (to borrow a Nieztschean description) whose duty is to alter reality to fit the will of man? This would make free will itself null and void. The will that can only affect its surrounding environment in positive ways can not be said to be free. How can one deny one's free will, if one can choose to deny the existence of God. Therefore, neither the suffering of humanity nor the ability to reject God can be a definite proof of his non-existence. All that it demonstrates is that, whether God exists or not, people are in fact free; and, freedom to do as one wills is demonstrated through both positive and negative consequences. Would we rather that no one suffer and no one be free? Or perhaps we would rather that God becomes enslaved to humanity, cleaning up the messes that result in the wake of freedom... Either way, free will means that the removal of human suffering can only occur from human choice itself...divine existence or not.