An Incomplete List of Unconvincing Reasons Offered to Me

the world is complex and

flowers are beautiful and

the body is self-regulating and

my football team won and

Hitler lost and

I found the love of my life and

a person I know beat cancer and

science keeps changing and

my grandma believed and

this toast has a face and

I want to see my dad in heaven and

what if you’re wrong and

this book on near-death experiences and

God’s Not Dead and

beer and

hurricanes punishing the gays and

the Bible says it’s so and

the end is near and

speaking in tongues and

you can’t be moral otherwise and

4,000 years ago this happened and

have fun in hell and

Christians enjoy sex more and

you will be rewarded tenfold and

there’s a reason for everything and

read this tract and

pray about it and

you were raised better and

Darwin converted and

you don’t need proof because

all you have to do is believe