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[Content Note: Christian Supremacy.]

On our always-fun local church sign over the weekend: "Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil. It has no point."

That's a quote generally attributed to Billy Graham, I think, although I'm not sure if he coined it or just famously repeated it, or even if he ever actually said it at all.

Every time I walk the dogs, I walk past that church sign and am reminded that my life is considered pointless—just a friendly little bit of rank hostility, right in my neighborhood.

This morning, the church was getting ready for a rummage sale, and some of its members were out on the lawn, sorting through stuff. As I passed, they waved and smiled, and I waved and smiled back.

A pointless moment in the pointless life of a pointless person.

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