As stories come out of Oklahoma’s terrible tornado that left dozens dead, one cable anchor received an unexpected response from an interviewee.
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer interviewed a survivor only to find that she did not share the same religious beliefs:
“We’re happy you’re here. You guys did a great job,” Blitzer said to Rebecca Vitsmun
“You’ve gotta thank the Lord, right? Do you thank the Lord for that split-second decision?”
“I — I’m actually an atheist,” she said.
“You are. All right. But you made the right call,” Blitzer said.
“We are here, and I don’t blame anyone for thanking the Lord,” Vitsmun said.
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… was the question a little six-year-old asked, but no one seemed to have an answer. Her father, Alex Renton (an atheist), was shocked that his daughter’s Scottish school would make the class answer the question. The girl, Lulu, looked to her father for an answer to the question. He replied that they didn’t believe in God, but her father still wanted a religious answer for his daughter.
I used to go on a lot of Habitat for Humanity trips, especially during college, and I frequently ended up on job sites where we had to build a house from the ground up. We framed walls, put trusses up, put the roof decking up, and shingled the roof. Over the years, I would learn a little more about building a house. Building a house is really tricky. If you are a half inch off on a line it could wreck the whole job. For a guy like me, a half inch does not seem like a whole lot, but in the building trade it can equate to disaster. I remember on one trip, we were following the directions of a volunteer on how to build the framing for the house and the gentlemen supervising the job did not really know what he was doing. We put in a half day of work on it and the real site supervisor came on the scene and told us to rip everything out! We were off two inches! Ahhhh! Needless to say, that guy was not directing anymore work for the rest of the week.
When I was child, I would look up in the sky and wonder if clouds tasted like cotton candy. I know it’s weird, but what else is there to do when you are kid? I hoped that someday I will be able to get up in the sky, away from everyone else, and try to taste the clouds. I would also dream about flying and sky diving out of a plane. I have not yet been sky diving (I think the church would take an insurance policy out on me if I did, just kidding.) but I think it would be pretty sweet to venture through the sky and the clouds.
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