1. GOD WHO?
Do you know what the longest-running television series in history is? It’s not the nightly news. And it’s not the weekly sports hour. It’s not even60 Minutes, or20/20, or your mom’s favorite soap. No, the world record for longest-running television program belongs to . . .Doctor Who. The show premiered way back in 1963, the day after Kennedy was assassinated, and it’s still on the air. And you want to know the strangest thing? Fifty years later, we still don’t know the main character’s name. The title of the series is actually a question. The character simply goes by “the Doctor,” to which his new companions invariably respond, “Yes, but Doctorwho?”
The way we talk about God is like this a lot, too. Atheists, especially, are always lumping belief in any sort of god into one giant category, as though believing in some jackal-headed undertaker (Anubis) or a swan who seduces human wo