Does God Exist? Depends On Who Has A Better Presentation

I know better than to engage in a debate about God’s existence. In college, I was bored in Spanish class, so I wrote on a desk the lyrics to the John Lennon song “God”:

“God is a concept by which we measure our pain.”

The next day I had a torrent of people who had written back.

“No idiot, God is a way we measure our faith and morality”

And then responses to the responses...

“And the reason for all the pain in the world."

Well I learned two things from that experience:
1. Do not debate the existence of God.
2. When I am bored it is better to write lyrics from Paul McCartney songs. No one has ever been offended by Sir Paul. Grossed out and embarrassed for him, but not offended.

I had decided to leave debating God’s existence to stoners and TV's Kirk Cameron. And that is where I stayed on the issued until this last weekend. Surfing the internet tubes, I found a link that had “Kirk Cameron Debate with Evolutionists”. OK, cool, this might be fun.

TV's Kirk Cameron has gone a little nutty for God the past 10-15 years with his Left Behind trilogy. (Which to me always begged the question, if your movie is about the Rapture, how can there be a sequel, none the less a trilogy?) He also just did a new movie Fireproof where he had to have his real life wife stand in for his movie wife, because his religious beliefs won’t allow for him to kiss another woman. So this should be good, people arguing with TV's Kirk Cameron about God, let the laughs begin right? WRONG!

It was awful. TV's Kirk Cameron may have thought the Rapture takes 3 movies but ask the dude to explain God’s Existence, and he and this guy Ray Comfort put on a pretty good show. I mean what they said made little sense, but the WAY OF THE MASTER way they said it was so much better.

Then you have the opposing view from the Rational Response Squad. The RSS is a group of atheists who confront what they consider to be irrational claims. Regardless of how you believe, they were just awful. They didn’t dress up, they didn’t look into the camera. Ray and Kirk are there in nice slacks and button down shirts. Brian for RSS, wore a T-shirt and members only jacket. Come on guys, where is the showmanship?

And after doing a little research, co-founders of the RSS, Brian Sapient and Rook Hawkins, those aren’t even their real names! Seriously? So in a debate on God’s existence with TV's Kirk Cameron, these people lost on style points. Ugh.

It got me thinking: Where are the Atheist Kirk Camerons? Where are the celebrities who so DON’T believe in God they border on crazy? There has to be 1 or 2 out there? What is TV's Tracey Gold, Kirk’s Growing Pains co-star, up to? What a nice way to get back at him for driving her to anorexia. What is Urkel from Family Matters doing? That kid has NOTHING going on. He certainly has the time to bitch slap TV's Kirk Cameron in a debate. TV's Dave Coulier from Full House, could use all that pent up anger from having Alanis talking about him in “You Oughta Know.” The list of C-List celebrities goes on and on.

I am not saying God doesn’t exist and I am not saying God does exist. I leave that to Stoners and TV's Kirk Cameron. What I am saying is, if we are gonna have this debate, let’s do it right...

With washed up Sit-Com Actors.

Jason.