Crazy Motorist Experience

I was on my way up to Rockledge this morning and was heading north on Riverside Drive. The speed limit is rather heavily enforced and I seldom attempt to try exceeding the speed limit. Two school zones slowed me down, a southbound school bus stopped traffic while loading high schoolers. Still no problem, it’s my neighborhood and I respect the traffic laws. Then after being patient, a person in front of me slowly makes their right hand turn and I am looking to get some speed recovered after almost a stop, when this redneck pulls out in front of me from the street the car in front of me exited onto. He should not have pulled out unless I was planning to follow the car in front of me to the right. He pulls out then notices I am pretty close behind him and acts like he thinks I am deliberately tailgating him. He is in an older Nissan pick up truck, probably with manual transmission. In his embarrassment, he decides to intimidate me by deliberately slowing down, slamming on his brakes and once completely stopping and waiting for about ten seconds, like he may be getting out of his car to come beat my ass. This is getting a little scary because the guy has demonstrated an unreasonably quick temper. I did not try to gesture to him, pass him quickly (then he would tailgate me), or do anything , hoping he will get started again. I stay way back as we proceed north once again. He deliberately slows down when the road widens to two northbound lanes. I try to pass him and he swerves like he wants to hit me. I brake and follow him into the left turn lane at the Eau Gallie Blvd intersection. I think better of it and switch to the next lane to the right that goes through the intersection. I wait at the light for him to pass me as the turn lane is signaled to proceed. I am sure he is either loading a gun or at least looking for something in his truck to throw at me as he passes. I get the finger and verbal epithets as he thankfully continues onto the causeway.

I started to think of a way to have handled the situation if he had gotten out of his car to rough me up or damage the car. The best thing to do would have been to let him come close to the door and suddenly have it fly open and strike him and knock him down. I wait as he recovers, fuming mad and gets back up. He rushes back to his truck and pulls out a tire iron and heads back for me. I put the car in reverse and back up just fast enough to where he thinks he can catch up. After about 100 yards, I jam it into drive, swerve around him and head back to his truck. He is surprised that I stop next to his open door, reach in and grab his keys out of the ignition. I then drive off and throw the keys in the road 200 yards beyond his truck. I am waiting on the shoulder watching him, but this seething moron is blocking traffic with no way to move his truck until he retrieves his keys. When he does get the keys, he eyes me and runs back to his truck. He will then notice there is one key missing. The Nissan key.

Concerning Faith

It takes a real believer to gamble with your eternity. If atheists are wrong and deny God, they will live eternity apart from God. If I am wrong and God does not exist , my life is still enriched with the moral teachings, parables, and commandments in the Bible. If I die, and the atheist is right , I have lost nothing. If I am right, the atheist has lost everything. Not a good gamble.

Atheists think that science has rendered God’s teachings obsolete. So science is the new religion? Is a brain scan the new bible? Are specific sciences such as economics, cosmology, and psychology to be believed or are they constantly changing? Is evolution even good science? After all, Darwin had no scientific credentials. His training was in theology of all things.

All religions of the world are attacked by atheists as being pablum for the masses. I have never attacked “all of science”. That would be ridiculous. Every religion is different and sometimes are polar opposites, for example reincarnation is contradictory to eternal life in Heaven. The “journey is the reward” Buddhist view is not my view. I want to reach a destination!

The bible’s view of creation is right. I believe it. I also know that metaphorical terms are used that may be an interpretation by humans. Did God actually breathe life lung to lung into Adam or is it a metaphor? God can certainly do it if he wanted to . He may have done it in another way. I am open to exploring it.

Atheists are angry with believers, blaming them for man’s inhumanity to man. They might as well spread the blame. The atrocities in Cambodia, Korea, Russia, Mao’s China are from societies with no religious beliefs. I personally would like to live in country run by George Bush or Tony Blair rather than Stalin or Pol Pot. But if you feel safer there, that’s your privilege.

I would tell the atheist to ponder the Bible and to treat it reverently. It takes time to absorb the great truth that is there. Trying to digest 21 meals all at once will overwhelm anyone. Eat three meals a day over a week instead.

All religions except one have as it’s ambition to seek truth. Christianity is the only one that is truth. Buddha said “ I’m still searching for truth. ” Muhammad said “ I am a prophet of the truth. ” The Veda says “Truth is elusive, it’s like a butterfly, you’ve got to search for it. ”

Then Jesus comes along and says “I am the truth.”