The Pope is engaged in an intellectual debate with an atheist. Fed up with the atheist’s irreverence towards the leader of the Catholic world, the Pope finally snaps at him,
“Arguing with you is impossible!” the pontiff proclaims. “You cannot speak of God in such a way. You look for the Lord like a blind man, in a dark room, looking for a black cat that isn’t even there!”
The atheist is silent for a moment, but then says: “We are not so dissimilar. You are also a blind man, in a dark room, looking for a black cat, that isn’t even there. The difference is that you claim to have found it.”
“My conscience won’t let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people, or some poor hungry people in the mud for big powerful America. And shoot them for what? They never called me ?igger, they never lynched me, they didn’t put no dogs on me, they didn’t rob me of my nationality, rape and kill my mother and father. … Shoot them for what? How can I shoot them poor people? Just take me to jail.”
~ ~ Believe It or Not ~ ~
Oct. 31, 1999
Yachtsman Jesse Martin returns to Melbourne after 11 months of circumnavigating the world, solo, non-stop and unassisted.