Dear Editor:
Life is meaningless unless there is some divine power to answer to.
What a sad commentary on the human condition. Instead of debating philosophy or thumping the Bible, it seems time would be better spent by exploring the state of our union in these pages. Or do we not have opinions on physical, tangible topics?
More troops have died in Iraq than died in the first three years of Vietnam.
More than 2 million jobs have been lost since Y2K.
I have stumbled upon a great idea while writing this. Instead of stopping these silly debates about faith, why don’t we at least make them interesting?
It is nonsense to try and defend a faith with logic, so why don’t we wrap nonsense around nonsense and have a two-dimensional nonsensical debate? Certain church leaders have declared that Dubya (that’s the Top Gun, Commander in Chief) was God’s choice for these times of trouble to lead our country. Why don’t we debate that?
Or we can get into some real nonsense, some 3-D nonsense, and debate whether this is true and the implications of this being a true or false statement on the desire of God to have American troops die in Iraq or American people lose their jobs. In doing so, we may change the minds of campus crusaders or convert some heathens into born-again Methodists.
This may seem silly. The parameters for the debate are silly but at least they may create some interesting, original dialogue rather than waste the space of this paper with more exercises in futility.
Jonathan Watt

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