Who Is This God... And Why Do I Have To Listen To Her?
I'd Rather Laugh With The Sinners Than Cry With The Saints.... Sinners Are Much More Fun - Billy Joel
Why are so many people so slavish to religion? Since Carrie Underwood implored Jesus to take the wheel, without a license, I might add, there’s been a 32-soul-pileup on the celestial Super Highway and traffic's been a bitch. Where does this blind faith come from?
Since god made humans, there’s been trouble. Right off the bat, you have an omnipotent being with major delusions of grandeur – not a good combination. Typically, the first few minutes after man and woman are created, they start stirring shit up. Defying the almighty and getting their heads thumped.
Do you really trust a God who decides to wipe out existence without a second thought?
Call me picky, but Armageddon seems a sore substitute for leadership.
Someone should buy god a red sweater and have him watch a few hours of Mr. Rodgers - But I digress…without the benefit of the Internet and TV commercials, Adam and Eve didn’t stand a chance. How were they supposed to know the rules? The Croccodile Hunter would have explained to them how to control the snake, instead of being taken in by its tempting forked tongue and getting kicked out of “paradise”.
Well, sharpen my horns and call me the devil – George Bush is twice as dumb as both Adam and Eve together and we cannot seem to expel him from office. Besides, have you ever tried getting a grown child to leave the nest? Not even a divine miracle would work. They have a way of stretching the umbilical cord as far as it will reach. Could you see Eve, looking defiantly up into the sky, fuming because she can’t have the latest fig leaf out of the Victoria’s Secret tablet? She'd storm off, shrieking something about ‘When I am 400, I am so out of this dump!’
What the hell is the problem with just being human? Why must you be biblically lobotomized, anointed in oils, semi-drowned through baptism, and told you are just BAD?
I like drinking wine, and I curse worse than a sailor. (Actually, that statement is false, my husband was in the navy and he says I cuss worse than they did.) I have tattoos and a sharp brain. (MythBuster #1 – people with tattoos are no different than you – they are just way cooler and can kick your ass.) I give to charity, work with children, pay my bills, and generally try to make my little corner of the world a better place. What I do may not bring about world peace, or reverse the effects of global warming, but I try. And I genuinely like who I am.
And for that, I am a sinner.
Tell me, all you Pat Robertson clones out there…
What do YOU do?
posted by LoudMouthBitch at
8:22 PM
8 Comments:
I got a kick out of this take on 'creation':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_EXqdJ4L7I
Loud Mouth Bitch! I missed ya!
I dont beleive in some being that made two people and that carbon dating is wrong and the dinosaurs are a fake and an ark once held thousands of animals.. and so on.
I believe in something, maybe, but not anything like that!
Maybe Creepy has an answer. :)
OH I have to link you- I keep forgetting. No offense intended.
Well, if hell exists, I'm probably in line for one hell of an afterlife. But then again, if it doesn't, then I'm having one hell of a life. ;-)
I'm back. Hope to see you around!
Well said, Curare. Can I quote you on that?
Ok - I got pissed off at this Jesus Freak who lives close by and always writes editorials to the newspaper saying "I hate gays, I hate Lesbians! They are the moral decay of our society!"
I am not gay, but her mouth pisses me off, So I wrote an editorial back -
(Creepy, you'll love this)
"NAME DELETED hates gays, lesbians, and those who cheat on their marriages.
This makes her a good Christian. She feels her moral compass is forever pointing heavenward, and that her god is looking down upon her, smiling in smug satisfaction.
Well, what does the bible say about arrogance, ignorance and intolerance? The bile she spews is infinitely more toxic than two people of the same sex falling in love.
Still, she is a Christian, and what’s even better, SHE KNOWS WHAT GOD THINKS!
Am I to believe that he created all things, is the beginning and the end, has annihilated existence on at least one occasion, but he’s not quite smart enough to get the homosexual thing right.
Curious.
Could it be that maybe she is god’s mistake?"
Whatya think, Creepy - have a snowball's chance in hell of getting printed?
Think I have an answer to your question, though it's rhetorical and you are preaching to the choir.
And there's nothing unique about my answer.
As an atheist, I have to deal with the knowledge of my own mortality every day. That is burdensome, not to mention a terrible drain on one's dopamine levels.
Religion exists because the burden is very heavy. If one can only cross the Rubicon and truly believe in the eternal life promised by organized religion, can you imagine what bliss that would be? How exhilarting? What a relief?
I've often asked people who believe what it's like. I tell them I assume that it's something akin to being high on bsae or h and having sex ALL THE TIME. And instead of hearing "yes! that's exactly what it's like" all I hear is palaver about good and evil, which gets right back to the Billy Joel line.
If religion is so great, why are the faithful so pissed off all the time?
KELSO: You are absolutely right. Like I've said before... I want to give them all crosses so that when they feel like martyrs, they can crawl up and nail themselves to them.
Now I am off to see your blog ;-)
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