“A First Class Confrontation”

How about a little good news for a change? Contrary to ever increasing news reports, the younger generation does not consist solely of reprobates and whiners. If you just pay attention, you can occasionally hear good news from our college campuses, and other times people just make up mighty fine jokes like this one I’m telling today. Who am I to tell the difference? It’s fun, either way. For instance, I once heard about a certain professor who liked to make an issue of his atheism while teaching a college class at a certain bit-time university. Although the subject he was teaching had nothing to do with religion, and goodness knows, he’d probably get sued had he wanted to take the opposite side of the argument, one morning he up and told the class that he was going to prove that there was no God.

“God,” he said, with a sarcastic tone, lifting his eyes to the ceiling, “if you are real, then I want you to knock me off this platform. I’ll give you 15 minutes!” Ten minutes went by while the shocked class watched silently and the professor continued his taunts, “Here I am, God. I’m still waiting. Take your best shot.”

And then, just as the clock ticked down to the last couple of minutes one young Marine who had just been released from active duty and newly registered to the class decided he couldn’t take it any longer. Quick as a flash, he got out of his desk, walked up to the professor, decked him in the face, and sent him flying from the platform.

The shocked professor struggled to his feet and yelled, “What in the world is the matter with you? Why did you do that?” And the marine…well, the story goes that to the cheers of his fellow classmates the young man replied. “God was busy; Sir, He sent me.”

~Shellie