Parable of the Tooth: An Existential Mystery

My former college roommate, Ian, claims he spent the last three monthsdrinking beer and watching football with God. The good news is that, ifIan is to be believed, there’s beer and football in heaven. The badnews is, he’s not to be believed. And I intend to prove it.Now he’s brought his old college friends together to pitch the bookhe’s written about the experience. It’s a trite book, in my opinion, with only one new revelation: in the ensuing years God has becomecranky. No one would even consider his claims if he hadn’t handed usthe book a week after he died.But I don’t buy it. I believe he faked his death and that he is andalways had been a fraud and a liar. He’s the last person God wouldchoose to confide in. He’s already taken away the best part of my life: I intend to stop him before he destroys any more live