Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-24
How Far Back Can You
Remember?
You EXISTED Memory Began Did You Not?
A reader writes us ::


atheist He tells that such thing heaven
future We late al night sometimes This one
thing he SAYS and / around it. He says: Every
thing YOU did YOU remember You know that yon
were alive Yesterday day before and last II
YOU alive existence angel or IN any other
wav before You into this world YOU would remember
that woudn youo If YOU gong TO live ON hereafter
YOU would something about that too
This atheist has pretty good line Of argument, and
wish you could tell things that could answer
him He likes to talk with Christian people and make
them sound foolish with his arguments
We advise our reader to talk his atheist friend about
follows:
To begin with YOU are NO atheist There such thing
as an atheist An supposed to be who denies
the existence of He in reality who makes HIM
SELF his god His god usually his own conceit he suffers
from more permanent attack of intellectual vanity ana
be able explain everything for himself and do
everything for himself
intellectually he is about on par with the little child that
can hardly and yet refuses be held by the hand by it's
mother
Occasionally man calls himself atheist when
great blow has upon him and when he thinks he has
lost faith in eternal justice and wisdom But that is not
atheism, only passing Encouragement
The professional atheist who delights in undermining the
religious belief of others morally par with who
would delight in attacking the of mans moth
er The respectable mans religious faith he
would the memory of mans father mother.
As to this foolish argument about life before after this
hardly worth answering But might
your atheist friend
How back YOU remember in THIS hfe2 Can YOU
remember YOU years old three years old
two wears old? your memory goes
THERE WAS PART OF YOUR LIFE THAT YOU CAN NOT
REMEMBER AT ALL there not2 You can't remember
when You baby biting your and bowling for
your mother You cant remember when first began
creep along the floor humping your head against chair
and table legs
Yet you ALIVE that time You actually KNOW
that YOU alive and you take the statement from others
having FAITH in what they tell YOU
How do you know that before this existence itself began
you hadn't Others and thousands of Others perhaps How do
YOU you haven't been coming this earth
and reappearng IN different human bodies
the work hero You can't remember your infancy Why
should you remember former existences2
What absolute knowledge Of any kind have YOU? NONE.
simply chronicle your little impressions You live in
in which the least wonderful thing the smallest
blade of of sand endre, beyond your
pehensM Every phenomenon beyond your
grasp ever, thing granted warmth Of fine
and the air that Won the fertility
the regular the wonderful balance p-uet
in whrng journey and all Of wisdom and kindness
And yet Your foolish little Intellectual vanity forbds You to
accept power Justice wisdom and benevoence infinitely
above that o. TINY little creatures this earth
You say 10 the atheist this
You a denial Others least are stri, INC dmlv to
the wisdom that guides Others least look UP
WARD downward They gratitude which inspira-
ton haven't
The fooshv person who delights N set
ting his opinions against others who makes god
of his trifng foolish little power DON'T WASTE TINE
ARGUING WITH HIN