BOSTON, MA — Local atheist and president of The Enlightened Rationalist Guild of Supreme Cognition (ERGSC) Steve Wimbly admitted to several close friends that recent struggles had shaken his faith in the existence of nothing.

Wimbly said that all his life, he had prided himself on his ability to face life's challenges with an unshakable faith in absolutely nothing, but several recent events had admittedly led him to thinking about the possibility of a divine and loving creator.

"Things were getting so hard, I accidentally prayed the other day," said Wimbly, shaking his head with embarrassment. "Who was I praying to? Is someone there? I feel like I may have felt something. I'm afraid I'm on the edge of losing my faith in the existence of cold, blind determinism and nihilism."

"I wish I was stronger."

Wimbly's friends claimed to have seen him sneaking glances at a Bible he keeps on the shelf, which he normally studies to find all the "inconsistencies and inaccuracies." They also claimed to have witnessed him closing his eyes and moving his lips silently as if praying to an all-loving creator of the universe.

"I don't know what's gotten into Steve," said one close friend. "I'm afraid he might be deconstructing his Atheism."

At publishing time, Steve's faith was further shaken after none of his atheist comrades were able to answer his question about why anything good happens if there isn't a God.

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