Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar... by Thomas Cathcart

Author:Thomas Cathcart
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group USA, Inc.

DEISM AND HISTORICAL RELIGION

Eighteenth-century philosophers, if they weren’t skeptics, tended to be Deists, believers in a remote, impersonal God-of-the -philosophers—a Creator more like a force than a person, more like a clockmaker than a confidant. Traditional Jews and Christians pushed back. Their God, they said, was no mere clockmaker. He was the Lord of history, present in the Exodus from Egypt, the wandering in the desert, and the settling of the Promised Land. He was, in a word, available—a “very present help in trouble.”

A Jewish grandmother is watching her grandchild playing on the beach when a huge wave comes and takes him out to sea. She pleads, "Please God, save my only grandson. I beg of you, bring him back.”

And a big wave comes and washes the boy back onto the beach, good as new.

She looks up to heaven and says: “He had a hat!”

Try saying that to a clockmaker!

“Then, each month, you’ll receive a new set of commandments. Cancel anytime and keep the first set, absolutely free.”

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