I have found what I would like to call an interesting dichotomy in the belief in invisible beings. Most who'll read this thread know I have no particular love for the histrionics involved in belief but I want to ask for the sake of making people think.
Which God Do You Believe In?
Now many will say 'The God of Christ'.
The Jews say it's the God who sent Christ as a prophet but not as his son. He had some good fish and good biscuits and did what plenty of prophets do. He got himself killified on a big stick. There were tons of these characters claiming to be the king of the Jews. You got a new one every week. Two thirds of Christ's little twelve man press-corp turned out to be proper cunts in fact.
Now, I'm going to break this down a little farther. Plenty of people believe in the God mentioned in one of the innumerable translations of the Bible. So if each translation is different, which God is actually speaking?
Is it all the same voice spoken in different languages or through different persons or might we just as well admit that large parts of it sound flat out contradictory from passage to passage and that the message as a whole is a 4 thousand year old game of slightly drunken, slightly crazy, potentially drugged out of it's mind Telephone.
We can't admit that though. The word of any God must be perfect (despite the flat out threat in Revelations that any attempt to translate certain portions of it render the translator for a good trip straight to the bottom floor of the universe) for it to have any merit so we'll start from the idea that it is at least semi-functional divinity.
Do you believe you must be Jewish to reach the kingdom of Heaven? We'll call this one God.
Do you believe it is okay to own slaves? We'll call that another.
Do you believe women who have sex out of wedlock should be stoned? That's another God.
We can of course pick and choose the passages we choose to live by if we decide that the word of God is perfect. I mean, a little bit of perfection is as good as a whole lot, isn't it? We can't go about stoning every homosexual else we'd get ourselves terribly tired out! We'd have absolutely no time for sitting watching the Kardashians be twats to one another or shopping at Wal-Mart. Lord Help You if you want your hair done properly.
Now if these are all different Gods, that would suggest to me that wonderful, sexy men like Fred Phelps who are deeply convicted in their beliefs have their own particular divine lot who speak to them personally. Obviously this God has gotten tired of the bits of the bible about love and compassion and decided it wants to take the world by the tits.
I realize it's tempting to call any one of these groups positively demented but I want to ask flatly, if you hold any of these disparate beliefs then what validates them above and beyond any one of the other loony tunes out there declaring they have a flat out handle on Life, The Universe, And Everything?
What God do you believe in again?
Which God Do You Believe In?
Now many will say 'The God of Christ'.
The Jews say it's the God who sent Christ as a prophet but not as his son. He had some good fish and good biscuits and did what plenty of prophets do. He got himself killified on a big stick. There were tons of these characters claiming to be the king of the Jews. You got a new one every week. Two thirds of Christ's little twelve man press-corp turned out to be proper cunts in fact.
Now, I'm going to break this down a little farther. Plenty of people believe in the God mentioned in one of the innumerable translations of the Bible. So if each translation is different, which God is actually speaking?
Is it all the same voice spoken in different languages or through different persons or might we just as well admit that large parts of it sound flat out contradictory from passage to passage and that the message as a whole is a 4 thousand year old game of slightly drunken, slightly crazy, potentially drugged out of it's mind Telephone.
We can't admit that though. The word of any God must be perfect (despite the flat out threat in Revelations that any attempt to translate certain portions of it render the translator for a good trip straight to the bottom floor of the universe) for it to have any merit so we'll start from the idea that it is at least semi-functional divinity.
Do you believe you must be Jewish to reach the kingdom of Heaven? We'll call this one God.
Do you believe it is okay to own slaves? We'll call that another.
Do you believe women who have sex out of wedlock should be stoned? That's another God.
We can of course pick and choose the passages we choose to live by if we decide that the word of God is perfect. I mean, a little bit of perfection is as good as a whole lot, isn't it? We can't go about stoning every homosexual else we'd get ourselves terribly tired out! We'd have absolutely no time for sitting watching the Kardashians be twats to one another or shopping at Wal-Mart. Lord Help You if you want your hair done properly.
Now if these are all different Gods, that would suggest to me that wonderful, sexy men like Fred Phelps who are deeply convicted in their beliefs have their own particular divine lot who speak to them personally. Obviously this God has gotten tired of the bits of the bible about love and compassion and decided it wants to take the world by the tits.
I realize it's tempting to call any one of these groups positively demented but I want to ask flatly, if you hold any of these disparate beliefs then what validates them above and beyond any one of the other loony tunes out there declaring they have a flat out handle on Life, The Universe, And Everything?
What God do you believe in again?