#856 Falling- Andrew Tonkovich

#856 Falling- Andrew Tonkovich

There are many sides to the human outlook on life and existence, none more polarizing than religion vs. science. One demands proof and the other a leap of faith. Sir James Templeman (yes Temple-man is the religious type) is trying to use science to lure people to see the light. He has used his wealth to create a pseudo-scientific social experiment putting on of religions adages to the proverbial test, namely: There are no atheists in foxholes.

He has built a warren of “Foxholes” on a tropical island and invited the world’s most famous atheists to sit inside these holes and challenge them to give a full-faith effort to find religion inside. These holes are of course well-furnished private dwellings and the whole thing is more of a artist retreat than anything, but with promise of a no-strings-attached- stipend for the graduates, the atheists have come in force, most to take Templeman’s money and brag about not being converted.

“A residency lasted forty days, the same period Christ wrested Satan in the desert. If the participants left early, they naturally forfeited the money. But if they completed their underground tenure, when they stepped out of their foxholes each received generous compensation and could take the opportunity to elaborate on the mystical or, as more likely occurred, exercise their God-given…right to brag that they still rejected the spirit, had found no evidence of it, and so had cheated the foundation after enduring five weeks in a luxurious burrow.”

The experiments continued, until one day a participant was found to be missing. Odder still was a hole was found in the bottom of his foxhole. This hole was perfectly created, with no evidence or waste of creation and seemingly bottomless. A search for the man, and a source of the hole proved no answers, and in their bafflement, the place was closed, all except for the hole, which was to remain there until answers were found.

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