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Chapter 6
Golfing With God
Jake considered himself a liberal Christian though his religious views were hazy. His main concern was avoiding what he thought were the mental lobotomies that hampered some Christians. They became so fundamentalist that they were unable to entertain other possibilities.
Though unable to conceive of creation without some omnipotent power, Jake spanned the range of options about what God was. These included God as nature and God as a universal impulse towards justice. He also fluctuated in what he believed was the amount of influence God had in the world — sometimes thinking a lot, sometimes not much at all. Yet he also fervently believed in evolution and the Big Bang.
A major difference he had with Graham was that Jake didn’t believe in Hell or that a loving God would permit such terrible torture. He did find that Graham had changed his conception of Hell as he got older, starting with fire and brimstone and calling Hell merely the “absence of
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