Rule #15: Romantic Love Proves My Atheism

For the first 12 years and 10 albums of its existence, the J. Geils Band produced high-energy, well played party rock that had the depth and insight one normally expects from a Republican governor of Texas.

Then, suddenly, in 1979, Peter Wolf was struck by an inspiration so profound, so universal, and so simple it boiled down to the two most honest words ever written in the English language.

The fact the there's a root canal in this video, and it

doesn't hurt as much as the subject, should tell you something

Apparently asking all those women to Give It To Me, Make Up Your Mind, and Take It Back didn't work out quite as well as he'd hoped.  Or, it could be that his divorce that year from Faye Dunaway had something to do with it.

As poignant and inspired as the chorus is, to me the genius comes from the opening verse.

You love her
But she loves him
And he loves somebody else

Every time two people get together there are AT LEAST two other people's hearts who have been broken because that couple got together.  Add to that the pain and suffering the couple will no doubt inflict upon each other and you've got four miserable people (again, at least).

 Women crying outside Paul McCartney's first wedding.

Not for joy.  And they got two more opportunities to relive this moment!

But isn't love wonderful?  That elated feeling, the bond with another human being, the sex, the passing fancy that there's another human being on the planet who gives a shit whether you live or die.

In a word, "no."

It WOULD be, if it existed in a vacuum.  In fact, when lovers seem to be the most happy is when they seal themselves off from the world around them.  "I feel like we are the only two people in the universe right now."

So, the perfect scenario for love is the last two people on Earth.  But, of course, so many women have told so many men (and men told women, and women told women, and men told men) that they wouldn't sleep with them EVEN IF s/he was the last man/woman on Earth, even that doesn't seem to be too hopeful.

Well, maybe some can find love in this circumstance

So, since the last two people on Earth doesn't seem to be a good love connection, what about the first two?  God created Adam, saw Adam was lonely, and instead of inventing ESPN, the Fleshlight, or beer, he created love.

God can be a real son of a bitch sometimes.

And you know how well this worked.  Paradise is, literally, lost.  They have two kids, one of whom is a smug bastard and the other kills him out of non-romantic jealousy.  The story has been used to say women are inferior and devious for centuries (well, they are, but so are men so it evens out).  And snakes have gotten a bad rap.

So, if we are to believe that God is a just and loving force, and he created love, we have reached the type of contradiction that philosophers, scientists, and Suduko solvers love.

Ergo, i.e., QED, shut up and listen - love proves God cannot exist.

Remember, you will be in, at most, only one romantic relationship that does not end.  And the only reason it won't end is your DEATH.

OK, maybe there is some hope