Sunday Morning Series- 5: On Divine Intervention
What does God find abhorrent?
Apparently not
the Roman torment of His people
nor subsequent Roman torment
of Wiccans, Huguenots, and Indios.
Not the Camps.
Not the Kmher Rouge.
Not the Cultural Revolution.
Not the genocide from sea to shining sea.
Disobedience under the influence
of snakes and fruit,
impatience and thirst
among the desert rocks,
the reflexive move to steady a tilting ark,
and an over the shoulder glance back at home,
despite home's wickedness,
all merit Godly intervention, though.
For He's a jealous and mysterious God
and just a little psycho.
Apparently not
the Roman torment of His people
nor subsequent Roman torment
of Wiccans, Huguenots, and Indios.
Not the Camps.
Not the Kmher Rouge.
Not the Cultural Revolution.
Not the genocide from sea to shining sea.
Disobedience under the influence
of snakes and fruit,
impatience and thirst
among the desert rocks,
the reflexive move to steady a tilting ark,
and an over the shoulder glance back at home,
despite home's wickedness,
all merit Godly intervention, though.
For He's a jealous and mysterious God
and just a little psycho.
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5 of 7 blasphemies
Other stories by Gary Hardaway
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Bwaaahahaha... You're bound for Hades, you know. Oops, I laffed. I'll look you up down there. *
Insightful comparison, inescapable conclusion. *
A LOT psycho.
Like discovering the truth about Santa Claus, the recognition of what a creep the Biblical God is leaves one scarred and pissed off.
Thank you, Mathew, J. Mykell, and Steve for your responses. I am grateful.
Diagnosis: Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder in the DSM. Look it up. Fits Him to a T.
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Ah, Gary, ye of no faith. You have to see the truth behind the truth behind the truth behind . . . . I gave up peeling the onion too.*
Our God...is a psycho God...
That's a hymn of some kind, isn't it?
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Thank you, Gloria. I find it interesting that Christianity adjusts and expands the personality of God by adding Jesus and, for many threads of the faith, Mary. Kick-ass God takes a subordinated role once the gentle, suffering son/mother tandem join the team.
Thank you, John. Once I began seeing the testaments as literary invention, I began to enjoy it all more and despise it less. Of course, the onion is just smaller and smaller spheres and cones of the same irritating but flavorful phenomenon.
Hymn! There has to be a hymn! Or a Psalm at least... Thank you, Sally.
Ouch. When once I brought similar mysteries to the attention of my uncle, an evangelical preacher, I was told I lacked faith and failed to see the "bigger picture." Yep.*
Yep. Thats why He moves in mysteriou ways. Hard to pin anything on Him that way.
I have no faith, but love speaking to religious people. Though we grew up in the same world, they see it so differently. I am very often baffled.
Great thought-provoking stuff.