If you arent familiar with Marine Todd, read this. You should be. And right, the story: The unnamed professor is teaching his unnamed course at that unnamed college. Among the students, it so happens, is a United States marine, who is taking classes between deployments to Afghanistan. The professor — and here we can begin to infer that the course is either Introduction to Parodic Atheism or Advanced Studies in Imaginary Heresy — endeavors to disprove the existence of God, right there in class. He does this by climbing onto a box and serving an ultimatum: God has 15 minutes to knock our atheistic civil-liberty-minded professor off his box, or else it will be established beyond doubt that God does not exist. When those 15 minutes elapse, we can only presume, the professor will climb down and go over the syllabus or something. Anyway, he never makes it that far. After several minutes of grinding, anxious silence, the marine, alone among the students, can take no more. In silence, he strides up to the professor, punches him in the face, and knocks him out cold. The marine is already back in his seat when the professor comes to. His indignation cuts immediately through the fog of having been knocked unconscious, and he is pissed. Why, the quite-probably-concussed professor sputters, would the marine do such a thing? The legend goes that the marine responds: God was busy protecting America’s military who are out protecting your right to say stupid shit like that, so he sent me to fill in. That is its final line. The story is called Just Filling In. Retweet or share if you believe in heroes.
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 17:10:56 +0000