I’m generally agnostic, even though I do have Pagan leanings.  I’m spiritual without being religious, but there are times when the deities do reveal themselves.

My friend Mike is currently deployed to Afghanistan.  He’s an Orthodox priest and an Army Reserve chaplain, who was also deployed with us to Kosovo.  No one can say he doesn’t get around.  (OK, how often can you say that about a priest?!  It had to be said!)

Well, today a homicide bomber, otherwise known as one of Allah’s Assholes (thanks, Misha!) decided to take himself out of this existence during a meeting in the information and culture ministry in Kabul.  Unfortunately, this particular camel fucker took five other people with him.


The insurgent Taliban movement claimed responsibility for the attack in a telephone call with AFP, saying it had been carried out by three men – two of whom had escaped – and was aimed at “foreign experts”.
Well, Mike was one of those “foreign experts,” apparently.  Luckily, I just got an email from him, and he’s safe, although he says his ears are ringing from this morning.

When I was deployed to Kosovo and my festering yambag of an OIC (we called him Homer, because he reminded us of Homer Simpson) would piss me off so badly, I’d have to go outside, and smoke a Marlboro just to calm down, Mike would say something funny that would make me giggle, and the pissed offedness (yes, I just made that up) would subside.  One day, when I was particularly angered by Homer’s douchebaggery, he stepped out on the porch where I was passionately puffing away and asked, “You know how I know God exists?”

I gaped at him like a monkey doing a math problem, because he’s a priest.  He’s SUPPOSED to know that God exists.  I didn’t think he had actual justification.  “Um… how?”

He grinned at me and said, “Because he’s here, where he can do relatively little damage, and not in Iraq getting people killed with his stupidity.”

I laughed.  Mike always made me laugh.

Mike’s escaping unscathed, save for a little ear ringing, is almost enough to convince me of the existence of a deity.

Whew!