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"Subject: FW: Choose #1 or #2
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> This one should keep us all thinking.

I chose #2, now you pick one.

This is a true story of something that
happened just a few years ago at USC.
There was a professor of philosophy
there who was a deeply committed atheist.
His primary goal for one required class
was to spend the entire semester
attempting to prove that God couldn't
exist.

His students were always afraid to
argue with him because of his
impeccable logic.
For twenty years, he had taught this
class and no one had ever had the
courage to go against him.

Sure, some had argued in class at
times, but no one had ever really gone
against him because of his reputation.
At the end of every semester on the last
day, he would say to his class of 300
students,

"If there is anyone here who still
believes in Jesus, stand up!"

In twenty years, no one had ever stood
up. They knew what he was going to do
next. He would say,

"Because anyone who believes in God is a
fool. If God existed, he could stop this
piece of chalk from hitting the ground
and breaking. Such a simple task to prove
that He is God, and yet He can't do it."

And every year, he would drop the chalk
onto the tile floor of the classroom and it
would shatter into a hundred pieces.

All of the students would do nothing
but stop and stare.
Most of the students thought that God
couldn't exist. Certainly, a number of
Christians had slipped through, but
for 20 years, they had been too afraid to
stand up.

Well, a few years ago there was a
freshman who happened to enroll.
He was a Christian, and had heard
the stories about his professor.

He was required to take the class for his
major, and he was afraid. But for three
months that semester, he prayed every
morning that he would have the courage
to stand up no matter what the professor
said, or what the class thought.

Nothing they said could ever shatter
his faith...he hoped.

Finally, the day came. The professor
said, "If there is anyone here who still
believes in God, stand up!" The
professor and the class of 300 people
looked at him, shocked, as he stood up
at the back of the classroom.

The professor shouted, "You FOOL!!!
If God existed, he would keep this
piece of chalk from breaking when
it hit the ground!"

He proceeded to drop the chalk, but as
he did, it slipped out of his fingers,
off his shirt cuff, onto the pleat of his
pants, down his leg, and off his shoe. As it
hit the ground, it simply rolled away
unbroken. The professor's jaw dropped
as he stared at the chalk. He looked
up at the young man, and then ran out
of the lecture hall.

The young man who had stood, proceeded
to walk to the front of the room and shared
his faith in Jesus for the next half hour.

300 students stayed and listened as he
told of God's love for them and of His
power through Jesus.

You have 2 choices

1. Delete this and never look at it again.

2. Pass this along to your Christian

and non-Christian friends, giving them

encouragement we all need every day.

When you choose option 2, you have
chosen to STAND UP"

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Thoughtcriminal, I hate to point out that you did number 2....

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I actually would like to hear a professor try to logically deduce that there is no god.

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WHERE HAVE ALL THE CHRISTIANS GONE?!

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And why won't they stay there?!

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