an atheist in the woods

Subject: an atheist in the woods Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:43 pm

An atheist was walking through the woods.
"What majestic trees"!
"What powerful rivers"!
"What beautiful animals"!
He said to himself.

As he was walking alongside the river, he heard a rustling in the bushes behind him. He turned to look. He saw a 7-foot grizzly bear charge towards him.

He ran as fast as he could up the path. He looked over his shoulder & saw that the bear was closing in on him.

He looked over his shoulder again, & the bear was even closer. He tripped & fell on the ground. He rolled over to pick himself up but saw that the bear was right on top of him, reaching for him with his left paw & raising his right paw to strike him.

At that instant the Atheist cried out, "Oh my God!"

Time Stopped.
The bear froze.
The forest was silent.

As a bright light shone upon the man, a voice came out of the sky. "You deny my existence for all these years, teach others I don't exist and even credit creation to cosmic accident." "Do you expect me to help you out of this predicament? Am I to count you as a believer"?
The atheist looked directly into the light, "It would be hypocritical of me to suddenly ask you to treat me as a Christian now, but perhaps you could make the BEAR a Christian"?

"Very Well," said the voice.

The light went out. The sounds of the forest resumed. And the bear dropped his right paw, brought both paws together, bowed his head & spoke:

"Lord bless this food, which I am about to receive from thy bounty through Christ our Lord, Amen."

Subject: Re: an atheist in the woods Sat Nov 03, 2007 12:30 am

This is definately one to pass along !!

Subject: Re: an atheist in the woods Mon Nov 05, 2007 12:30 pm

Thats a good one lol!

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Subject: Re: an atheist in the woods Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:30 pm

..I am going to give that to my Philosophy of Religion Teacher, it will get passed around!

Reminds me when a group of us got chased by a black bear when I was younger. My friends gum fell right out of her mouth. Ran so fast!

I grew up in the sticks and we always had bear, moose, wolf..the old dump use to be loaded with bear nosin through the trash. It was a tourist attraction! They would even break into the businesses back part where the trash was and tear it up, Memories!