the perspective of an atheist<\/a>, I think the cartoon makes a point that most will agree with. Treating \u201cGod\u201d as the cookie-cutter answer irrespective of what the question happens to be is as foolish as using \u201cGod\u201d as the answer to every question on a crossword puzzle. You might be able to have put a letter in every square. But you will have missed the point and much else in the process.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While some Christians might resist the perspective of an atheist, I think the cartoon makes a point that most will agree with. Treating \u201cGod\u201d as the cookie-cutter answer irrespective of what the question happens to be is as foolish as using \u201cGod\u201d as the answer to every question on a crossword puzzle. You might be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,131,139,101],"tags":[658,871,1625,1835,4005],"class_list":["post-11450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism-religion","category-christianity-religion","category-fundamentalism-religion","category-theology","tag-answer","tag-atheist","tag-cartoon","tag-christian","tag-god"],"yoast_head":"\n
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