The cool kids have a pretty cool God these days. I often hear him gushed about at the award ceremonies — you know, the Grammys, Tonys, MVP acceptance speeches. And he really is for the cool people. He makes dreams come true and answers prayers for money and fame. He’s not really, like, super involved and stuff, nor does he really care about what you do as long as your good stuff outweighs your bad. But he’s pretty easy going. He doesn’t get mad easily, and he’s super tame and friendly. And he’s got great evangelists, impeccable walking advertisements. His preachers and teachers are unfailingly good-looking. They’re usually fabulously wealthy and wildly famous. People love them and so everybody listens to these cool folk espouse the goodness of their God. This is the cool God for the cool kids. It’s unfortunate for them then that he doesn’t exist. It’s also unfortunate that this non-existent, terribly cool god has been polluting imaginations for hundreds of years. Jonathan Edwards, in his eighteenth century book, Religious Affections, wrote this of the non-Christians of his time: “And so, having formed in their minds such a God as suits them, and thinking God to be such an one as themselves, who favors and agrees with them, they may like Him very well and feel a sort of love to Him, when they are far from loving the true God.” Keep Reading: bit.ly/1EsY6Ly
Posted on: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 19:00:01 +0000
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