http://brevisvita.blogspot.com/Such a Song and Dance
A lovely, poignant dialogue between a youth and an elderly below; it serves to illustrate marvellously what is profound is actually simple - and even if the intellect acquiesces, it is the heart that the LORD needs to bend and break.
An excerpt from Does God Believe in Atheists? by John Blanchard; also mentioned in my email titled 2nd Episdoe to Leon:
"Young Man: I am an atheist. There is no God.
Old Man: Then would you please give me the great privilege of shaking your hand?
Young Man: You can certainly shake my hand, but I don't see why you should think that's a privilege.
Old Man: But it is! You have no idea how excited I am. If you would allow me to shake your hand I would remember this day for the rest of my life.
Young Man: Why on earth do you say that?
Old Man: Because you are by far the most remarkable and outstanding person I have ever met.
Young Man: This is becoming ridiculous. There is nothing unusual about me. I am just an ordinary person, convinced that God does not exist. Why are you making such a song and dance about that?
Old Man: Because I have never met anyone who has been alive throughout all time, visited every spot in universe and knows every single that is possible for a human being to know.
Young Man: Well, you still haven't.
Old Man: Then let me ask you some questions. If you have not been alive throughout all time, won't you accept that it is possible that God does exist, but that he revealed himself to humanity at some point before you were born? If you have not been everywhere in the universe, won't you accept that it is possible that God does exist, but that he is somewhere in the universe that you have never visited? And as you admit that you don't know everything it is possible to know, won't you admit that there may be evidence of God's existence within that body of knowledge you don't possess?"
