"All thinking men are atheists." -Hemingway

Really?

Thomas Aquinas, Italian Catholic Priest, philosopher and theologian, extolled by James Joyce to be second only to Aristotle among Western philosophers.

Aristotle, Greek philosopher and possibly the greatest influencer of Western thought, saw God as the "Unmoved Mover".

Renee Descartes, influential French philosopher, founder of Analytical Geometry and Modern Philosophy, defender of the faith

Albert Einstein, German scientist and revolutionizer of modern Physics, reported by many friends and reputable biographers to be a believer in a literal God.
(also see en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein)

Isaac Newton, British Anglican, founder of Classical Physics

Galileo Galilei, Italian Catholic, astronomer, philosopher, and mathemetician

Nicolas Copernicus, Polish Catholic, founder of Heliocentric Cosmology

Max Planck, German Protestant, Nobel Laureate in Physics for his work on thermodynamics

Louis Pasteur, Catholic, brilliant French chemist and founder of Microbology and Immunology

T.S. Eliot, British Anglican, Nobel Laureate in Literature

Gerard Manley Hopkins, British Jesuit priest, creator and innovator in poetry

C.S. Lewis, British Anglican, prolific writer, thinker, and apologist

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Orthodox, founder of 20th century Existentialism and (arguably) one of the greatest novelists of all time

(indebted to www.adherents.com)

Even the famous atheist and French philosopher, Jean Paul Sartre, had his moments of clarity:

In a separate 1974 interview with Simone de Beauvoir, Sartre said that "I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was expected, prepared, prefigured. In short, a being whom only a Creator could put here; and this idea of a creating hand refers to God." But immediately adds that "this is not a clear, exact idea…" (wikipedia)

Death and Winter Come Each Year

Death and Winter come each year...
Who invited them anyway?
Are they friends?
Do they have each other over for dinner,
And swap homicidal stories?
Do they make pithy comments
While reading Poe? in mocked pathos?
In the evening, do they “sit on the ground and
Tell happy stories of the death of kings”?
Have they made a List like Nicolaus?
Are you on it?
Am I?

The Strange Life of Dr. Normal

"The boars of France! The boars of France!" He screams into the night. His trembling, naked body glistens with sweat in the half-moonlight. His heart is pounding. His pulse rising. A look of horror contorts his shadowed face. Somewhere, in the distance, a baby is crying for its mother. And still, all he can force out is, "The boars of France!"

He darts frantically into an empty alleyway. There is a brief but violent struggle...then nothing.

A few hours later, he wakes up, stretched out on the ground like a slab of butcher's meat. A deep, guttural moan steals from him almost involuntarily as he tries to move. His hand accidentally knocks against his side and waves of electric pain rip through him until he almost loses consciousness for the second time. He takes a few deep breaths to try and calm himself and regain some sort of composure--though it would be considered fragile at best. Then he gently, but deftly, moves his left hand to his hip...waits two interminable seconds...and in one swift, brave motion grabs hold of the alien protrusion, and yanks it from his side.

The moon showers its soft sympathetic glow on the slumbering earth 240,000 miles below her...on its sleeping children and on the quiet shelters they call homes...on everything that's sound and sane in this world...while Dr. Normal gazes long and hard--and in sheer terror--at the bright, blood-stained ivory fang in his hand!