Jonathots Daily Blog
(1998)
He has an impressive list of abilities and accomplishments.
After all, He created the universe, and even if you only want to give Him credit for portions of that process, it’s still pretty magnificent–if He only came up with the idea of evolution.
I think every child of earth should be appreciative of His ingenious proposal of sexual pleasure leading to procreation.
Sunrises and sunsets would be very difficult to duplicate.
Needless to say, the Fellow (or Lady, depending on your sentiment) is predisposed to creative bursts of energy and rejuvenation. So it’s fascinating to me that we take this well-qualified candidate and limit His job description to “bless” and “damn.”
Truthfully, the only time we ever invoke His name, other than the Facebook “OMG,” is when we’re asking Him to bless something or we get in a fussy mood and require His damnation skills.
How odd.
But I’ve always believed that if you want to understand the nature and future of a society, you should study both it’s prayers and it’s comics.
When the prayers are insipid–lacking mercy, justice and practicality–you can tell that the spiritual systems that exist will not have the energy to lift the burdens they’ve levied upon the people.
When the comics are more preoccupied with silliness, foolishness or just a general spirit of grumpiness instead of leading us to do something rather than damn one another, then you pretty well know there is no common enlightenment of the people in store.
Thus, OUR time. We choose to bless things, and if we don’t feel we can do that, we damn them. So we take the greatest intellect imaginable–and relegate Him to ceremonial acts of bestowing mystical fairy dust on certain projects, only to bring down the thunder of Thor on those who would dare to disagree with us.
To say it is childish would be an insult to children. It is worse than that.
It is short-sighted.
And people who possess that lack of vision always perish by falling off a nearby cliff.
I’d like to give God a job. I am hiring Him, as of today, to do four chores for me:
- Show me where I’m stupid before everybody sees I’m stupid, which makes me feel really, really stupid.
- Lead me to one person in this twenty-four hour period who needs help, so I can feel good about myself and he or she can have a meal in their belly.
- Let me stay current with world events without becoming cynical or escaping into fantasy.
- Let me notice the natural order already exists and has lasted a long time. The more I learn it, the smarter I appear.
The wage I will pay for this magnificent list of accomplishments?
- My devotion.
- My “thank yous.”
- And my reasonable conviction that You not only exist … but You would love to do something other than bless and damn.
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