The elderly parson paid an unannounced Sunday visit to the ranch of a church member in the frontier community where he ministered. To his disgust, he found the fellow playing cards with four other church members.
"What kind of church members do you call yourselves, playing cards on the Sabbath?" The old man bellowed in a voice that would intimidate an army sergeant. "You are sinners, and a pack of atheists--all of you!"
The man whom the parson had come to visit looked up from his cards.
"Preacher," he began quietly, "with all due respect to your position, I assure you that there are no atheists in a high-stakes card game ..."
-----------------A Final Thought ...
"A nation rushing hastily too and fro, busily employed in idleness."
- Phaedrus (ca. AD 100), Roman fabulist.