My friend @Rarebear, I don’t find your post offensive at all. In fact, I asked God the same questions you suggest. I didn’t like the answers I got.
Q – “Why do you deserve my worship when you are such a cruel piece of shit?”
A – “What gave you the idea that I wanted your worship? I’m the one who worships you, my beloved creation. Did some person tell you that I needed your worship? Did you read it somewhere? Know that the one who misrepresents me for their own purpose is worse off than the one who would reject me completely. Why listen to what others say when instead you can commune directly with me? It is you who prevents our friendship. Not I. Shall I accept what others say about you without reserve? I don’t want your worship. I want you to grow and make the most of yourself by asking questions like these. I want you to live.”
Q – “If you are so fucking omnipotent, how could you let so many people die in holocausts around the world?”
A – “I’m not the one who allows this. You are. For tens of thousands of years you’ve allowed this to happen in, and to, the beautiful home I made for you. Like most humans, you’ll do anything to avoid taking responsibility for your own treachery. First, you blame other humans. Then you blame me. You pass judgement upon events that you do not fully understand, and then cast blame upon a being that you do not fathom. What you see as death, I see as life. For the death of yours is life eternal with me beyond the pain and suffering you blame me for. Shall you judge me for that too? I’ve prepared a heaven for you. Use it first as a model to create the same in your heart. Others will model their heaven after yours. Plant the seed and watch heaven on earth become reality. It’s up to the free will you were created with. In the mean time, as you learn to create your heaven, use the pain and suffering that you cannot prevent as an opportunity to learn concepts of compassion, charity, empathy and self sacrifice. Look now! There are starving children everywhere. What will you do about it? Will you rub your genie bottle and send me off like a dog to rescue them while you sit and watch Family Guy? An earthquake just killed a million people. What will you do about it? Does it move you to acts of compassion? Or does it move you to angrily pass judgement against the one who prepared eternal life for them?”
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I know… right? That God sure is a slippery prick… Turning it around and putting the responsibility on me like that. The NERVE of some Gods! To think we weren’t born into the perfection of heaven from the beginning is just… just… insulting! To think that we can only truly know the essence of charity and self sacrifice through witnessing injustice and suffering is… is… well… just absurd!
I really don’t think that charity loses any teeth without the concept of greed to compare it against… Does it?
all in fun my friend