An atheist professor was teaching a college class and he told the class that he was going to prove that there is no God.

He said, "God, if you are real, then I want you to knock me off this platform. I`ll give you 15 minutes!"

Ten minutes went by. He kept taunting God saying, "Here I am, God. I`m still waiting."

It got down to the last couple of minutes a big 240 pound football player in the class walked up to the professor and pushed him. The professor struggled, but was knocked off the platfrom.

"What`s the matter with you," the professor yelled at the student? "Why did you do that?"

"God was busy, so he sent me," the player replied.

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While the above story is a silly example of those who are offended by elitist that force their thinking on others and treating them as so much useless trailer trash, here's a brief overview of real characters from the Bible that were used to promote the message of its author.

Notice the individuals below were not called from the elites of that day's society, but instead from its outcasts, elitists so filled with themselves and their own image of wonder there is nothing left to fill:

Noah was a drunk - Abraham was too old - Isaac was a daydreamer - Jacob was a liar - Leah was ugly - Joseph was abused - Moses had a stuttering problem - Gideon was afraid - Sampson had long hair and was a womanizer - Rahab was a prostitute - Jeremiah and Timothy were too young - David had an affair and was a murderer - Elijah was suicidal - Isaiah preached naked - Jonah ran from God - Naomi was a widow - Job went bankrupt - John the Baptist ate bugs - Peter denied Christ - The Disciples fell asleep while praying - Martha worried about everything - The Samaritan woman was divorced, more than once Zaccheus was too small - Paul was too religious - Timothy had an ulcer - and Lazarus was down right dead!

The Jewish scribes, who faithfully reproduced original documents to create the Old Testament, were faithful and learned men, not myth-makers. Creating lies was not the way of those who followed the Jewish faith to the letter during those times, unlike many so-called educated people of today along with the membership of the ACLU.

However the theme of arrogant people like these, rejecting the faith they were taught as children, runs through the Bible again and again, something that has never changed to describe the failed human spirit since the beginning of time.

The Bible has instead focused on those filled with humility and awe of the world they lived in, its wonders working together for a perfect system created by intelligence, not chance.

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So below are some thoughts that put prespective into everyday living, getting around those that only complicate the world with the wonder of themselves:

1. God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.

2. Growing old is inevitable . . . growing up is optional.

3. There is no key to happiness. The door is always open.

4. Silence is often misinterpreted but never misquoted.

5. Do the math . . . and count your blessings.

6. Faith is the ability to not panic.

7. Laugh every day. It`s like inner jogging.

8. If you worry, you didn`t pray. If you pray, don`t worry.

9. As a child of God, prayer is calling home every day.

10. Blessed are the flexible for they shall not be bent out of shape.

11. The most important things in your house are the people.

12. When getting tangled in your problems, staying still will help to see the knots and allow her faith to dissolve them.

13. A grudge is a heavy thing to carry.

14. He who dies with the most toys is still dead.

15. You buy someone a fish and they will eat for a day. Teach them to fish and they will have food for a lifetime!

16. Smile! It is proven to be the fastest way to brighten a day!

Thanks to Robin Burns, Chicago, Illinois.