God is Like an Ugly Junior High Boy
I found this link today via Fark:
Before providing links to back it up, the author has this to say:
America was once the greatest country in the world. We were wealthy, we were civilized, we were cultured, we were generous and kind-hearted, we loved others, and we tried to follow God.
But now we have seen decades of moral decline. Men of God have gone across this nation warning that the huge mountain of sin that America is building will bring the judgment of God.
But has America listened? Has America repented? No! Instead America has treated God’s patience with contempt and has indulged in ever increasing sin year after year. Now America is absolutely loaded with evil and wickedness…..
I want to address two things. First, America has never been a nice nation, and is probably more moral now than at any time in its past. Second, I want to logically follow through this whole judgment thing to show how stupid the idea is.
Regarding this:
America was once the greatest country in the world. We were wealthy, we were civilized, we were cultured, we were generous and kind-hearted, we loved others, and we tried to follow God.
I have my own list:
Slavery, rape of slaves, fornication with slaves, 3/5 compromise, genocide against the Indians, lynching innocent blacks, child slavery and labor, witch trials, segregation, Jim Crow laws, dehumanization and abuse of immigrants (e.g. Irish, Chinese, Mexican), subjugation of women as second-class citizens, support of cruel foreign dictators, legal disenfranchisement of poor people, the Tuskegee experiment, debtor’s prison, sexual abuse by priests, and so on.
There has never been a golden age for American morality. If anything, we’re living in it now, as scary as that is to say. So-called Christians of the past have been far more evil to their fellow man than the average evil-doer of today.
Now, as for this judgment thing: what does that mean exactly? Obviously, this person means god will judge America in the physical sense, as I doubt there’s an actual country in Heaven called Los Estados Unidos. Since it’s in the physical sense, it means god will either kill us, or cause us to suffer in some physical way. And, since we all die anyways, who cares if god smites the unrighteous? Christianity teaches us that god decides when we die, so is judgment just saying that god is moving up the date a little bit?
If god does smite “America,” does that mean he smites the righteous along with the unrighteous? If so, it just sounds like everyone dies like we do anyways, so so far judgment pretty much means nothing.
If god doesn’t kill us, does judgment mean we’re all going to suffer terrible boils and junk, or only the bad people? If everyone, well…I guess it pretty much sucks to be Christian too, as that doesn’t earn you much favor. If only the bad people, why do the Christians care? Let the bad people get evil pubic lice. Maybe then we’ll be more receptive to the loving god who killed our firstborns or gave our young daughters horribly painful skin lesions.
If he’s not going to actually physically punish us, maybe he’ll make the US like the second best nation on earth. Or worse yet, maybe we’ll become like one of those backwards black nations and become poor. The bible doesn’t promise that believers will be financially successful, so again, how is this judgment any different than normal life? Millions upon millions of American children already eat wholesome meals like ketchup soup and live in abject poverty, so have these innocents already been judged for all the abortions they’ve performed and all the gay sex they’re having? If ketchup soup is a sign of god’s “patience” and his “love”, he can pretty much go screw himself for all I care.
I really don’t understand what this judgment thing means. Of what concern is it to our everlasting souls if the US is a rich nation or has cool swag like LCD TVs?
Basically, it sounds like god is going to kill people, or he is going to give us all painful diseases, or he is going to take away our Playstations. In 100 billion years when all these Christians are sitting on a cloud playing ping pong with Jesus, what possible f’ing relevance could all this punishment have to do with anything, and why would god go out of his way to kill us all when he’s got us at the Last Judgment in a paltry 70 years anyways? Moreover, isn’t he the very one that lets good ol’ Lucifer run around and tempt us all?
Anytime you follow this lunacy through to its logical extent it makes no bloody sense. I swear to Zoroaster, god is like an over imaginative 12-year-old who got rejected by some other ugly 12-year-old. His books are full of dragons and invisible sword fights and punishment for the evil doers, not to mention father-daughter incest, naked women taking baths, donkey penises and young girls’ breasts being fondled. Seriously? That’s the best god can do?
Progress, slow but steady? I wonder sometimes…
It’s interesting. Among the sins he states (some of the ones we’ve come to expect: homosexuality, divorce, etc.) he mentions torture and the use of nuclear weapons. I count that as slow but steady progress.
Comment by Dave — 29 July, 2008 @ 01:26