Origins, 5

Even if you dispute

when exactly

the New Testament

developed,

we have letters

from the generation after.

I think this is the salient point,

the one most often overlooked,

that we have the next generation

of the faith

on the record,

and if we have that generation,

and no one seriously doubts

at least Paul...

This is where my argument begins,

why I think it's worth considering,

the miracles 

that happened

in some manner,

the life that was so consequential

to every life that followed,

the life that in its summation

asked us to try and be decent people

to each other.

Take everything else away,

and I think that alone

is worth championing,

a flame worth keeping

alive.

And we can trace it

pretty easily,

nearly all the way back

to the beginning.

Which seems to me

good enough

for the good it created,

and still can

if we just get out of its way.