{"id":2861,"date":"2012-04-06T08:18:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T13:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=2861"},"modified":"2012-04-06T08:18:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T13:18:58","slug":"patrick-greene-sold-me-on-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=2861","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Greene Sold Me on God"},"content":{"rendered":"

So the big news of the week is that some atheist few have ever heard of has converted to Christianity. While researching my Examiner article<\/a> on the topic, I decided to go right to the source. I e-mailed Patrick Greene and asked him, what\u2019s up?<\/p>\n

I read quite a few articles about Greene\u2019s conversion and they all said about the same thing. Greene converted because Christians paid him $400 and because evolution can\u2019t explain the huge, massive differences between humans and other animals. So I asked Greene what he meant by the huge differences in human and other animals. He told me that he was referring to brain size and physical characteristics.<\/p>\n

This was pretty shocking because humans don\u2019t have the largest brains\u2026 not even proportionally. But, I told him, even if we did, that wouldn\u2019t disprove evolution and it certainly wouldn\u2019t prove God. More than that, it wouldn\u2019t get you to Jesus either. So what convinced him?<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat got me to Jesus was very simple.\u00a0 With the education levels and knowledge of the societies back 2,000 years ago, Jesus had to be the son of God, because the people there would not have the imagination to make up stories like walking on water, rising from the dead, and changing water into wine.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wow, I never heard that argument before and I thought I had heard them all. Congratulation Patrick Greene wins a prize. You have to admit that is a pretty solid argument (snicker, snicker). Jesus has to be real because Christians lack the imagination to make this shit up.<\/p>\n

Holy shit, I am sold!<\/p>\n

Oh, there is of course the fact that people 2000 + years ago had awesome imaginations a while Greene might be correct that Christians back then might not have had great imaginations, they could just steal their stories from everyone else. Oh look, that seems to be exactly what happened\u2026 either that, or the Greek gods must be real too.<\/p>\n

I always said Zeus was real. I knew it; the ancient Greeks didn\u2019t have the imagination to make that shit up.<\/p>\n

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