Credenda Agenda has a new issue online with a powerful photograph on their front cover of a coyote’s corpse dangling on a barbed wire fence. The author then uses the image as a reminder of the futilty of atheistic thinking:

Some might consider it a disturbing image. But we didn’t do it. We didn’t put the fence there. We didn’t make the coyote jump and we certainly didn’t make the coyote, though our mother’s meat loaf is excellent. Truthfully, we had nothing to do with any of it. However, it does seem to have been done on purpose. “Almost,” as the agnostic once said, “as if there were a god/higher power at work.” The atheist never said anything like that. He knows who’s responsible for the dead coyote and he would like to speak to the supervisor. Only there isn’t one. That’s the trouble. That, in fact, is the primary reason why he is depressed and determines to right global mismanagement himself. Of course, because he’s as much a character in this story as the coyote, all he does is start an organic farm for ideological reasons only to sell out and become a capitalist as the money rolls in. Then one day, while driving a Honda Element around his cabbage patch, he glances over at the fence beside his road and sees this coyote. Life is suffering, he says, and becomes a Buddhist.