"There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God." - Bill Cosby
I never stopped believing in
God, but I have wondered in the past whether or not God ever believed in me. I'm sure He believes in some of us. Well, perhaps 'belief' isn't the correct term to use. I don't think God has to believe in anything. I mean, He's God. He
knows already, so why would He have to believe? He's not a believer. God is an artist.
I stopped believing in
organized religion a long time ago. Whether the religious
zealots in question are
conservative or
liberal or
moderate or
incontinent, just like most other things, humans have a tendency of
fucking it up. God is not a religious zealot. That would make Him a narcissist.
God is an artist.
More specifically, I know there is a
supreme force of some kind. The very
existence of this
universe, which could not have
evolved on its own by
pure chance, proves that something was behind its inception and guides its continuous
dance between order and chaos. However, I don't think any one religion on this planet has it all figured out.
Human beings were responsible for making religions: not God. He makes stuff like
trees and
rabbits and
sunsets. Religion is too petty of a process for a
Universe Maker. God is not petty. God doesn't have to leave anything to chance, unless He wants to leave something to chance. However, God might be
pretentious and
vain, because God is an artist.
This recent conservative
swing of the pendulum among
rural America is
in my not so humble opinion a
reactionary gut check among the Christian
Americans who are beginning to suspect that the very presence of
muslims and
jews on this planet is threatening to weaken their claim of being the most powerful
theology on
Earth. It's like back in the
crusades when
Christians thought they had to remove the heathen from
Palestine, when from their perspective, the Christians were the
heathens. It's really pretty funny when you step back and look at it. Or rather, it could be funny if not for all the
bloodshed that has been involved for the past few millenia. Quite frankly it's a
miracle we haven't caused our own
extinction as a
species, because we keep insisting on thinking of ourselves in terms of
nations or
religions or
tribes or
cultures or
races or any other kind of
us versus them when in reality we're all stuck on this stupid
spinning rock in space and whether we like it or not, we're one
culture. One
faith. One
tribe. One
race. The
human race.
Like it or not,
we're stuck with each other. God is not stuck with us. He's probably not thinking about us as much as we like to
believe He does.
God answers prayer about as often as an obsessed scultor or painter returns his phone calls.
God is an artist.
"You can’t keep asking that God will find a way. God is tired of you. ...And God said, “I’m going to find a way.” I wasn’t there when God said it… I’m making this up. But it sounds like what God would do." - Bill Cosby
Today we human beings on the
western hemisphere of this spinning rock think we've learned so much more and can just waltz into the
eastern hemisphere and talk
peace while we simultaneously
blow things up in the
middle east, or not take sides even though muslims know we side more with the jews or
vice versa. Seriously we haven't any better an idea how to find
common ground over there than we did when
Richard the Lion Hearted thought he
had it all figured out. For all our advancements and achievements, we human beings are still little more than
neanderthals throwing rocks at the moon. God's not a neanterthal. God made neanderthals. He made a lot of things. God is an artist.
The
answers may not even be in
ancient scripture. We've already looked there for thousands of years and where has it gotten us? Each religion claims their scripture is the unwavering voice of their God. However, they each also admit that said
voice of God was
transcribed by ..you guessed it. A
fallible human. In fact the humans who
allegedly did the transcription were all male, so naturally they described God as a male. However, that was rather
egocentric. For all we know, God's not even male. I refer to Him as a male out of
convenience, but I'm consciously aware I may be in error. God doesn't make errors, because He makes the rules. If He does something wrong, He just changes the rules so that He's not wrong anymore. Is that cheating? It's God's game, so if He makes the rules, He can't cheat. God's not a cheater. God is an artist.
Science brings us closer to God than the
Koran,
Talmud, and the Christian
Bible combined. The religions postulate that Science is
unholy because they claim it makes
man think he is like God. That's like saying if you drive a car you should never look under the hood for fear of becoming like a car manufacturer. God is not a car manufacturer. As
Bill Cosby once said, and I can't find the exact quote this time so I'm gonna have to
paraphrase:
Man invents. God creates. Man invented the AUTOMOBILE. Called it AMAZING! God made a tree said it was good. Man invented the REFRIGERATOR. Called it INCREDIBLE. God made a rabbit and called it good. The wheels fell off the car. The refrigerator lost its cool. Tree's still up and rabbit's still runnin'.
God's not a
comedian, but he has a
sense of humor. God is an artist. He makes stuff. Men make abstract concepts like religions and pretend this brings them closer to God, while also using religion conveniently to separate themselves from other humans that think differently. The religions of
humanity are upset because they each want to lay claim on
the One True God, and fear science will one day prove or disprove the assumptions each religion takes for granted. What no one seems to understand is that
science is just another theology; one that is just as flawed because like any theology it is created by Man and not by God. There are no facts: only
laws,
suppositions and
theories. There still comes a point, even with science, when
one has to accept certain things on faith.
God don't have to leave anything to faith. God doesn't care about faith. God cares about art. He's an artist. At least, that's what I believe. He could be a
kumquat for all I know...
Nodeshell Rescue sorta. Actually I was originally gonna call this God is an engineer but when I found this nodeshell it made more sense and all the pieces kinda fell into place.