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Bill Murray had completed school and was doing very well for himself. He was vice-president of an airlines and owner of a printing plant. Bill had been away from his family for about twelve years when his mother, Madelyn Murray O'Hair, asked her son to come home and salvage her failing organization. Dutifully, Bill returned to Austin and assumed leadership of the American Atheist organization (AAC). An astute businessman, Bill quickly increased the gross income of the organization from $3,000 to $30,000 a month.
During his eighteen months in Austin, unfortunate changes came upon Bill Murray. He needed a quart of coffee to get going in the morning, through the day he smoked four packs of cigarettes, and at night he consumed a fifth of liquor in order to sleep. His behavior continued to deteriorate until one night he struck his wife and fired a rifle at the approaching policemen.
Bill also had a troubled conscience that questioned the ethics of the organization he represented. Why, he wondered, were the proceeds always used to buy luxuries such as a new Cadillac, instead of necessities such as an x-ray machine for a hospital? Why did the organization have to sue an astronaut to keep him from praying on a space mission? Bill realized the answer to these questions: his mother was basically a negative and destructive person.
Unable to live with himself any longer, Bill walked out on the AAC. He spent six months living in the Arizona desert. After leaving the desolate land, he joined Alcoholics Anonymous, about which he said, "I saw some miraculous things people were able to accomplish with faith and I couldn't help comparing all that with atheism." Bill Murray surrendered his life to Jesus and is now a Christian evangelist.
Bill Murray came to a different understanding than his mother. Murray could confess, "but as for me and my household, we shall serve the Lord."
During his eighteen months in Austin, unfortunate changes came upon Bill Murray. He needed a quart of coffee to get going in the morning, through the day he smoked four packs of cigarettes, and at night he consumed a fifth of liquor in order to sleep. His behavior continued to deteriorate until one night he struck his wife and fired a rifle at the approaching policemen.
Bill also had a troubled conscience that questioned the ethics of the organization he represented. Why, he wondered, were the proceeds always used to buy luxuries such as a new Cadillac, instead of necessities such as an x-ray machine for a hospital? Why did the organization have to sue an astronaut to keep him from praying on a space mission? Bill realized the answer to these questions: his mother was basically a negative and destructive person.
Unable to live with himself any longer, Bill walked out on the AAC. He spent six months living in the Arizona desert. After leaving the desolate land, he joined Alcoholics Anonymous, about which he said, "I saw some miraculous things people were able to accomplish with faith and I couldn't help comparing all that with atheism." Bill Murray surrendered his life to Jesus and is now a Christian evangelist.
Bill Murray came to a different understanding than his mother. Murray could confess, "but as for me and my household, we shall serve the Lord."
