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Age Group: 11-16s
Atheism: What would God think of it?
Comedian Marcus Brigstocke on why atheism doesn’t suit
him, and whether God might.
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“I find myself, a 38 year old married
man with two children, loving my job,
reasonably content most of the time,
with periods of ecstasy and spells of
gloom, and yet for reasons both
explicable and inexplicable I wish I
could find a God to believe in. It
ought to be simple – decide to
believe, stop being a smart-arse, find
a church, temple, mosque, woodland
ritual, statue of a thing, special book
or ritualistic dance, and get stuck in. I
know a great number of people far
cleverer than me who believe in God
without any trouble at all. So why
can’t I?”
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“Though I seek to express myself
through comedy a lot of the time,
there are some things I’m deadly
serious about, and the desire for a
workable and available Deity in my
life is one of them...
I wish there was a God. I wish for
that God to exist now and for all
time. I wish to be fully conscious of
God and more importantly for Him
to be fully conscious of me. I wish
for God to be powerful, infinitely
wise, kind, loving, fair....”
How would God reply?
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Now you will have a chance to
think for yourself...
• Read the complete article from RE today magazine.
• How do you think God (if God is real) would reply to
Marcus?
• You will see some examples of this ‘Reply to
Marcus’ activity below, written by students aged
11-15. What do you like about each one you see?
• Write your own reply to Marcus, as if from God.
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What makes it
good RE?
• High quality real life
stimulus
• Driven by a big
question
• Open to pupils’
individual responses
• Demanding and
challenging of their
intellectual skills
• Fun
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RE Resources for you
Age Group: 11-16s
This example from RE Today
magazine is available through the
website to subscribers. The termly
password is inside the back cover of
RE today
Copyright: RE Today 2012