Reader mail

Even I get letters once in a while and I try to read them and, if I think you'd all be interested, I post about it. It's easy to fall behind, but here's a couple of things I've been sitting on I thought you'd all be interested in. Thanks, as always, for reading. Feel free to send me something if you want my take on it, maybe I'll even post it up here.

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First, Simon Owens, who runs bloggasm, a journalism-focused blog I'm becoming increasingly fond of, thought my readers would be interested in his interview with Dan Gilgoff, who's heading up CNN's new Belief blog.

So you can read that exchange here.

In addition, I was contacted via Youtube by SavannahBos, who may or may not be a legit account (user seems to have a lot of car commercials on their channel, but either way, I've been sent this video of this giggling young man asking, essentially, if God created the devil, didn't God create evil? And, of course, if God created evil how is evil...evil.

He's not very articulate (I'd be impressed if you could make it all the way through this thing) but he raises a few classic points about the paradox of an omnipotent, omnipresent, omnibenevolent creator character, proving to me that it doesn't take a masters degree in philosophy to recognize the inherit logical failing of belief in a god.



He makes the mistake of only addressing the Christian God, but I find it a positive development that critical thinking skills are being taught in this country and that there are young people like KSicsFaces who are unafraid to apply it, even to the most sacredly held beliefs. And who are unafraid to take it right to youtube and tell the world. Looks like he's got a lot of responses too.

So, some people thought you'd all be interested in those ideas. I thank them for thinking of all of you godless heathens, curious web surfers or whoever else is reading. Thank you again.