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On 9 Apr 2004 15:41:06 -0700, richmcbride@hotmail.com (Richard McBride) wrote:

>The Devil Always Win
>                   Richard M. Ruiz
>
>Early today I was standing in front of church,
>observing people coming out of a Good Friday's Mass.
>The Roman catholic clergyman walked ahead of the multitude
>and stood by the door shaking people's hands as they passed
>by him.
>
>Suddenly out of the blue sky, a man that seemed to
>be drinking, but not fully drunk, approached the priest
>and said to him:
>
>"Why don't you stop kidding people. You know
>quite well God does not exist. He only exist in the
>minds of those that believe in Him, and only because
>they've been brainwashed."
>
>The clergyman looked at him, and said:
>
>"Go ahead, confused soul. Get it all out of your system
>and then allow me a few words."
>
>"Good," said the man. You're the first religious person
>willing to listen to what you people call " a sinner." Although
>a sinner I do not consider myself. If I were to entertained that
>thought, I would have to believe in the existence of a God.
>Because grammatically speaking, my good man, the opposite
>of GOOD is BAD. You cannot change that. The way I see
>it, if that God you talk so much about were a real thing, then
>I have to conclude that the Devil, as the opposite of Him, always
>win. You'll see that comes November, George W. Bush will be
>re-elected. And why? Because we are that God you talk so
>much about, and we are also that Devil you want people to fear.
>We are the builders of Good things and the builders of Bad things.
>Not Him that no one sees of feel. There is no ne else to fear, but
>ourselves"
>
>Needless to say, the clergyman never had a chance to contradict the
>man. The man was brutally pushed out of the area by the congregation.