EXCERPT FROM THE PURPOSE-GUIDED UNIVERSE pp. 203-204: What kind of God is acceptable to the rational thinker? Walt Whitman famously said: God is a mean-spirited bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to His impossible standards. That is a terrible picture of a creator. I certainly do not find fault with non-believers for not believing in absurd ideas about what God was conceived to be in eras long gone...or that should be long gone. I too reject the following gods. *Any god who hates or is vindictive. *Any god who is pleased by cruelty or slaughter in his name. *Any god needing groveling subservience or slavish worship from mortals. (The really great do not need to be constantly told that they are great.) *Any god who is jealous of other patently silly gods springing from the human imagination. *Any god who is made of matter. (Then who made the matter?) *Any god who lives in a heaven somewhere up there in our Universe. (Then who or what made the Universe?) If this sounds irreverent thats as it should be. I believe that a real God delights in irreverence. Perhaps what the world needs is a book of favorite God jokes, not to ridicule God but to laugh with him.
Posted on: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 06:31:51 +0000
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