| Is Your God Goofy, Or Just Nuts |
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If you were to flip through the words of many contemporary religious writers (Jack Van Impe, Tim LaHaye, Hal Lindsey or Gorgio Agamben) or even yesterday's preachers (Muhammad, St. John the Apostle, Michel de Nostredame or Edgar Cayce) you'd think that the world will come to a fiery end.
According to science it may... if our Sun enlarges.
It may also end in a quick boom (asteroid), or even a silent, ever-increasing cold (if the Sun runs out of energy), but this is science.
Most religions teach that God's gonna come down with flaming sword in hand, send four dudes on horseback, or turn the poles end on end. All of this is considered a "Grand Purification", mostly for the sins of mankind.
In the 1800s, Native Americans were almost wiped off the face of their homelands by invading Europeans and their Manifest Destiny.
The U.S. fire-bombing of Tokyo, as well as atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed half a million civilians in 1945.
In the 60s, violence in the country of Burundi pitted Hutu against Tutsi in a war that still rages in Rwanda and has claimed millions.
In 1971, Pakistan was alarmed at the rising independence of what is now Bangladesh. Yahya Khan said, "Kill three million of them and the rest will eat out of your hand." Pakistanis took his words to heart, marched in and killed nearly a million, mostly by machete and pitchfork.
In the 70s and 80s, an half-million Africans were killed (mostly Acholi and Langi tribes) by the warring factions of Idi Amin and Milton Obote.
Hitler killed 10 million, Stalin 30 million, Mao 50 million.
Were any of these "Grand Purifications" for the sins of the groups attacked?
Nowhere in the Bible does God say, "That's it! I'm leaving it up to man, so I'm outta here for the next two millennia," leaving many preachers to think these are truly acts of cosmic providence.
Many also believe that pestilence, famine, and natural disasters are the work of a divine intelligence designed to punish those that died, while the survivors had "favorable" angelically stamped on their souls.
This logic has lead to Jehovah's Witnesses refusing care to those that need it, claiming it is God's will.
The idea that El Duce (Eldon Hoke) was hit by a train because he released Rock Bible, or that Jan Paul Beahm aka Darby Crash's heroin overdose was God's retaliation for his homosexual tendencies seems irrational, yet many think along these lines.
It sounds much worse that millions are indiscriminately killed to get to a few sinners.
Not working in a confessional, I don't know who the greatest sinners are, but I'm sure that if they did enough to piss off The Man in the Sky, he would pick the right time and place to execute said infidel.
To say that God would employ a tsunami to get Pacific Island despot Papa Minn, all the while needlessly drowning thousands of peasants makes your concept of God a kind of goofball.
None of this may seem irrational to Christianity, where God is himself, his son and an omnipresent spirit known as The Trinity. The Church, believing psychology as Satan's realm, probably isn't aware of Multiple Personality Disorder, so it might be hard for them to see that, clinically speaking, their God is a nut job.
- Adel
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