After A Year Without God, Former Pastor Ryan Bell No Longer Believes

[Scootaloo]

103. When I was like, four years old, I was super into dinosaurs - still am actually

But at the time, there was a cartoon out, called "Denver, the Last Dinosaur," about a dinosaur that gets thawed our or something, and befriends a team of plucky kids - as out-of-time dinosaurs do, I have gathered.

One of the advertisements for this cartoon showed the dinosaur skateboarding around his town, then jamming on a guitar, with the voiceover proclaiming, "SEE Denver the last dinosaur rock out like a blast from the past!" or... something like that.



Being four years old, I was certain that a real live dinosaur was coming to town, to put on a concert. I pestered my parents to take me to see this wonderful, magical thing. They turned me down. and boy was I angry. didn't they know that one does not see a corythosaurus break out a guitar solo every day? But no, they wouldn't take me, and no, I wouldn't listen to their explanations that it wasn't real. Of course it was real, the television told me so!

Now i'm quite a bit older and wiser in the ways of television, cartoons, and ultra-hip dinosaurs, and now look back at this childish certainty with amusement.

Tell me how someone's belief in an undetectable being turning the dials and controlling reality is more mature than the belief that a dinosaur will someday perform a concert for you.