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Periodically, it seems, society gets a new rash of atheists. I think rash may be a good metaphor. Like…
It’s downright annoying, when something is bothering you, to have one of your friends say, Well, try not to think about it. Right. Have you ever tried not to think about something? It’s pretty well impossible, because all the time you are trying to not think about it you are thinking about not thinking about it. So you’re still thinking about it, right? It’s like actively trying to forget something—the effort of not remembering something automatically remembers it.Nature abhors a vacuum. So when you empty your mind of bad things, they have a habit of coming right back. So,