Absentee Diety
“As we face the devastation wrought by Katrina... we turn to God for strength, hope and comfort. I have declared August 31, 2005, a Day of Prayer in the State of Louisiana. I am asking that all of Louisiana take some time Wednesday to pray. Pray for the victims and the rescuers. Please pray that God give us all the physical and spiritual strength to work through this crisis and rebuild. Please pray for patience for those anxiously waiting... Pray for the safety of our hard-working rescuers and those they are bringing to safety. I know, by praying together on Wednesday, that we can pull together and draw strength we need; strength, that only God can give us. In my prayers, I will also thank God for the strong and resilient people of this state and how they are working to meet this challenge.” [- Louisiana's Governor Blanco]
"Well, I have this to say: Shut the fuck up. Where is your god, Governor? Where is your benevolent, omnipotent being? Is he busy being thanked by the starving survivors who sit on their rooftops as the odor of their rotting neighbors wafts over them? Is he busy being thanked by the critical-care patients who avoided the bullets of the snipers that tried to kill them as they were being evacuated today? Is he busy being thanked by the evacuees who have returned to southern Mississippi to pick through the piles of matchsticks and memories that cover the ground their homes used to occupy? He must be busy, because he’s nowhere to be found. It’s not god providing the cots and MREs for 45,000 refugees, it’s the city of Houston. It’s not god picking people off rooftops, it’s the Coast Guard. It’s not god stopping the floodwaters from Lake Pontchartrain, it’s the Army Corps of Engineers."
"In the worst case, god is culpable. In the best case, he’s powerless to help. In actuality, he doesn’t exist. He’s not testing you. He’s not punishing anyone. He’s just not there."
"I wish more than ever for the last couple of days that he were. I wish there were someone to hear the faint cries for help in the pitch-black night. I wish the brave and selfless rescue workers who are risking their lives to save total strangers were securing their places in an eternal paradise. I wish I could trust that he’s taking care of fellow blogger vjack in Mississippi, who’s either without power or…"
"Oh, the wishes I’d wish if wishing made any difference."
... "The absence of god is so staggeringly obvious in the wake of Hurricane Katrina that hearing you even say the word makes me sick to my stomach. "
Source: The Evangelical Atheist
"Well, I have this to say: Shut the fuck up. Where is your god, Governor? Where is your benevolent, omnipotent being? Is he busy being thanked by the starving survivors who sit on their rooftops as the odor of their rotting neighbors wafts over them? Is he busy being thanked by the critical-care patients who avoided the bullets of the snipers that tried to kill them as they were being evacuated today? Is he busy being thanked by the evacuees who have returned to southern Mississippi to pick through the piles of matchsticks and memories that cover the ground their homes used to occupy? He must be busy, because he’s nowhere to be found. It’s not god providing the cots and MREs for 45,000 refugees, it’s the city of Houston. It’s not god picking people off rooftops, it’s the Coast Guard. It’s not god stopping the floodwaters from Lake Pontchartrain, it’s the Army Corps of Engineers."
"In the worst case, god is culpable. In the best case, he’s powerless to help. In actuality, he doesn’t exist. He’s not testing you. He’s not punishing anyone. He’s just not there.""I wish more than ever for the last couple of days that he were. I wish there were someone to hear the faint cries for help in the pitch-black night. I wish the brave and selfless rescue workers who are risking their lives to save total strangers were securing their places in an eternal paradise. I wish I could trust that he’s taking care of fellow blogger vjack in Mississippi, who’s either without power or…"
"Oh, the wishes I’d wish if wishing made any difference."
... "The absence of god is so staggeringly obvious in the wake of Hurricane Katrina that hearing you even say the word makes me sick to my stomach. "
Source: The Evangelical Atheist
posted by Aethlos at 8:03 AM
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Interesting post. I've debated the religious and theological idea of god and spirituality as well, and always find it fascinating to hear others opines on the subject.
'If God exists, He is the Devil'
--Baudelaire
The Temleton Foundation
You may find this interesting.
The problem with our preception of God is us...the fact that we are no means qualified to judge him. In a fallen world where evil reigns we try to put God in a box that we understand. God is not simply the celestial santa claus that we want him to be. Yes God is merciful but he also is God...and that means the justice part of God. God is mercy AND justice at the same time. Our minds can't deal with that kind of thinking...it doesn't make sense...yet God still is. We have this media influenced idea of reality that distorts and sways. The OT is full of our history of this kind of thinking. If you think that God is just a "benevolent, omnipotent being" then you haven't read his book.
It says very clearly that "God is not mocked" and he isn't. I would never assume I know that I know what God's mind is but I know mine. For all of the evil's in this world, the finger can be clearly pointed at it's inhabitants not it's Creator
Life is HERE to be HERE FOR LIFE... not for some magic ''afterlife''... not for the promises made by omnipotent rulers of territories and congregations... who would say ANYTHING to retain their power over their population of obedient slaves.
God can not save us from a falling tree just as God can not save a tree from falling.
God can not save us from ourselves.
As long as we salute flags and worship stones, life will continue to decline into the concrete desolation of its own making.
http://www.themiracleoflife.org/
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