If you have someone in your life who is either an atheist or thinking about becoming an atheist

or sliding in that direction, don't lose hope. There are a lot of things you can do. One of the things

is, of course, is give me a call. We'll talk about it. But there are a lot of things you can talk

about with that person. You can talk about, well, where did all this come from? If God doesn't exist,

why does anything exist? How could anything exist? Well, you know, because things come in,

no, nothing can come into existence on its own. Here's why. Because existence is imparted,

it's handed on, it's given. And you may say, well, what does that mean? Okay, well, think about anything.

Think about anything that exists. You, for example, you exist, physically speaking, because your parents

produced you, they procreated you.

You didn't just pop into existence.

Hey, world, here I am.

Because it's impossible.

There would be no you to give yourself existence because you didn't exist.

And there's no you to give existence too because there is no you

before you exist. So everything that exists, you, and I'm speaking here about your physical body,

the phone that you're listening to the sound of my voice on through the relevant radio app,

or if you're listening on a radio

station, that radio tower didn't just pop into existence. It was built. It owes its existence

to something before it, outside of it. And this is true of everything in the universe. You can't

find a single thing in the universe that doesn't come from,

and I'm talking about real beings here, that doesn't come from something before it, everything

that we see around us, including the universe itself, by the way. Scientists say that it was caused

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