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In 500 BC, a Greek Philosopher Argued the Gods Were Just Statues

He wasn't wrong. And he wasn't alone.

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Joseph Pickett
May 29, 2026
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This tweet about a guardian angel saving a life was viewed 1.5 million times last week.

Original post by @allegiantfaith on X.

Hundreds shared their own stories about guardian angels. The hand of God showing up in ordinary moments.

I was one of them. My daughter’s roommate from Virginia Military Institute was killed in a bicycle accident in 2015. Her last words to her father as she left home the last time were:

‘I will go wherever God goes.’

Her parents found all of her belongings packed in boxes in her room after she died. She was about to leave for Parris Island and the Marine Corps. Her boxes were stacked in rows, taped up, labeled, and ready for the trip she never made.

Some years divide your life into before and after. I’d believed in God my whole life. That year, it became something more real than that.

Which got me thinking about the people who go the other direction. And how long they’ve been doing it.

"There is nothing new under the sun." — Ecclesiastes 1:9

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