I think mother nature is trying to tell us something
In the last year we have experienced a tsunami, two major disasterous hurricanes which resulted in flood, and an earthquake. Am I the only one waiting for the famine and the plauge of locusts? I don't know about you, but I think Mother nature is trying to say "There are enough of you bastards around, time to weed a few out". All of the natural disasters are in addition to wars, the AIDS epidemic in Africa, the Avian Bird Flu that we are all suddenly supposed to live in terror of, the SARS thing and what the hell, let's throw in a few Weapons of Mass Destruction. Ladies and gentlemen, if there is a God, I feel pretty safe in saying that he's pissed.
I was watching "Real Time with Bill Maher" this weekend and he had Salaman Rushdie on as his guest. They were discussing the ignorance of the militantly religious right and Salaman Rushdie made a pretty humorous comment that got me thinking. He said "I think God's problem is the quality of people who love him. If I was God, I'd probably have to kill a few people too". The other panelists were Ben Affleck and a right wing columnist whose name I regrettably forget. Anyway, these two men are fairly religious and balked at the idea that Salaman would make such a comment. They said that Christians are tolerant folks. I don't know what Christians they are talking to, but they're certainly not the christians around my neck of the woods. The Christians around my neck of the woods like the idea of blowing up abortion clinics, they have no problem with the idea of torturning Arab detainees because they probably deserve it, they condemn Jews and Muslims and Hindus and Agnostics and Athiests for their godless heathen ways. These Christians support the death penalty but hate abortion, which is really just splitting hairs in my opinion. These Christians condemn the gay community because the bible says they should. All in all, the Christians in my neck of the woods aren't really all that tolerant of anything, including each other. I was thinking about this, and I was thinking about how these people delve into their bibles and pull out verses to beat each other with, they look at one another and judge who is a superior Christian even though their own holy book says "judge not lest ye be judged". These people support political groups who will torture a grown man as long as that same group vows to protect a fetus. I can't understand it, and I was thinking to myself that Salaman Rushdie is right. If I was God, I think I'd be pissed off and have to kill some people too. I'd want to get rid of the people who spend their days preaching my word but refusing to actually live it. I'd want to get rid of the people who are hypocritical enough to value one life over another. I would want to get rid of the people who fight and start wars over their religious beliefs. I'd just start casting lightning bolts left and right. Sure, some innocents may go in the process, but in the end it's for the greater good eh?
I don't know, it just seems to me that something is going on. I am not Godly person. I am more content to believe that if there's some sort of higher power, we've pretty much mutually agreed not to bother one another. I'll mind my business, it'll mind its business and life will go on its merry way. I think there may be some higher power though. Not necessarily the heaven and hell, fire and brimstone God that everyone typically thinks of, but maybe something as simple as fate, or the cycles of nature. Whatever it is though, I think it's trying to say "Hey fuckers, stop pissing me off!". Maybe it's just nature's way of clearing out the bottom feeders or something. I don't know, but it is starting to make me wonder. Maybe Bush is the antichrist or something. Anyway, this post made no sense, but I hadn't updated in a while so you get my ramblings.
"Mass genocide is one of the most exhausting acts known to man, next to soccer"
I was watching "Real Time with Bill Maher" this weekend and he had Salaman Rushdie on as his guest. They were discussing the ignorance of the militantly religious right and Salaman Rushdie made a pretty humorous comment that got me thinking. He said "I think God's problem is the quality of people who love him. If I was God, I'd probably have to kill a few people too". The other panelists were Ben Affleck and a right wing columnist whose name I regrettably forget. Anyway, these two men are fairly religious and balked at the idea that Salaman would make such a comment. They said that Christians are tolerant folks. I don't know what Christians they are talking to, but they're certainly not the christians around my neck of the woods. The Christians around my neck of the woods like the idea of blowing up abortion clinics, they have no problem with the idea of torturning Arab detainees because they probably deserve it, they condemn Jews and Muslims and Hindus and Agnostics and Athiests for their godless heathen ways. These Christians support the death penalty but hate abortion, which is really just splitting hairs in my opinion. These Christians condemn the gay community because the bible says they should. All in all, the Christians in my neck of the woods aren't really all that tolerant of anything, including each other. I was thinking about this, and I was thinking about how these people delve into their bibles and pull out verses to beat each other with, they look at one another and judge who is a superior Christian even though their own holy book says "judge not lest ye be judged". These people support political groups who will torture a grown man as long as that same group vows to protect a fetus. I can't understand it, and I was thinking to myself that Salaman Rushdie is right. If I was God, I think I'd be pissed off and have to kill some people too. I'd want to get rid of the people who spend their days preaching my word but refusing to actually live it. I'd want to get rid of the people who are hypocritical enough to value one life over another. I would want to get rid of the people who fight and start wars over their religious beliefs. I'd just start casting lightning bolts left and right. Sure, some innocents may go in the process, but in the end it's for the greater good eh?
I don't know, it just seems to me that something is going on. I am not Godly person. I am more content to believe that if there's some sort of higher power, we've pretty much mutually agreed not to bother one another. I'll mind my business, it'll mind its business and life will go on its merry way. I think there may be some higher power though. Not necessarily the heaven and hell, fire and brimstone God that everyone typically thinks of, but maybe something as simple as fate, or the cycles of nature. Whatever it is though, I think it's trying to say "Hey fuckers, stop pissing me off!". Maybe it's just nature's way of clearing out the bottom feeders or something. I don't know, but it is starting to make me wonder. Maybe Bush is the antichrist or something. Anyway, this post made no sense, but I hadn't updated in a while so you get my ramblings.
"Mass genocide is one of the most exhausting acts known to man, next to soccer"