further than atheismUnitarian Universalists Get Arky Arky  I've
been thinking for a couple weeks now about the story of Noah's
ark, and trying to find the good in it.  I'm assuming that you
know the story: A person creates something, and then sets it up
to fail, and then in a fit of hatred at himself for having made
something so wretched, he screams at it and tries to destroy it.
No, that's not quite the tone that we're aiming for in Sunday
School, so I'll try again.  A father, angry at his children for
playing a with a dangerous weapon which he left laying out in
their playroom, waits for years and years before he decides to
kill all his children for being so naughty. Except for his
favorite son, whom he spares.  Dang. I still don't have it quite
right. Okay, I'll try to follow the Bible story a little bit
more literally.  God is an all powerful, all knowing, and all
good spirit who created the world and the people in it. But,
once people started thinking for themselves with their own
knowledge, God didn't