As I was pulling the remaining turkey off bones for storage this afternoon it occurred to me that the atheist coworker prefers to live. A week ago he and my liberal church-going friend were having a conversation behind my back as I sat at my computer at work not feeling particularly led into the conversation at the time. This coworker told my friend that he decided that people who believe in God, believe in an afterlife, believe in a soul, do so because they fear death.
Yet today as I sat at the kitchen table with fingers greased in pan oil and turkey fat, I was thinking back to this conversation and I realised that this man's apparent age of 40 or more years testifies that there is something about this life that he prefers as well. What is the suicide rate among atheists? I bet it's not 50%. I bet it's not even close. I bet the vast majority of atheists prefer something in the living of this life to the idea of the cesation of existence. I wonder who really fears death more?
This is a tricky deception. This man needs help but I can not do a single good thing on my own to help him. I do not know if or how God will use me in this man's life, only Jesus saves. I can pray for willingess, if God ever gave me the right words, but maybe God will use others as well, even my liberal friend.
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