The Three Agnostic Articles of Faith
Philosophies from the Church of the Apathetic Agnostic
It was back in 2008 when I received the invitation.
“My church’s having a camp during the winter. Join us, it’ll be fun.”
I was fourteen. And the blessed lack of intelligence that came with my adolescence meant that I was ignorantly happy — free from all burdens that follow behind the recognition of reality.
In other words, fun was not a commodity that was hard to come by. Besides, subjecting myself to an organization that frowned upon cigarettes, sex, and all things fun didn’t sound like an ideal way to spend the winter holidays.
So I did what any responsible teenager would. I pushed the responsibility away, tactfully putting the Islamic background of a friend to selfish use.
“I’ll go if Ismail does.”
This way, the odds were in my favor, right? And I even managed to avoid outrightly rejecting the invitation. Go, me.
As such, in the face of miscalculated probability, I ended up spending my winter break in church camp. Turns out my Muslim friend had a rather liberal outlook with regards to his religious beliefs. Huh, who’d have thought?
