--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > His father had promised him a car for his birthday. Dad was > > nowhere in sight. His mother gave him 5.00$, yet what he had > > received was a grace from God that on his birthday the sun > > and the birds awakened him, the sweet smells of the divine > > filled the air and he knew without a doubt that there had to > > be a God and that God just gave him the greatest birthday > > gift ever................. > > So following this weather based theology we can assume that God > absolutely hates China and dropped a huge earthquake on it's ass > and despises Burma and sent them a nasty cyclone?
Absolutely. He wasn't too keen on New Orleans, either. Except for the French Quarter. He spared that because secretly God is a breast man. Has been since Eden. You will notice that He gave Eve only one fig leaf, right? I rest my case. Anyway, God's got this thing for boobs, and He really likes watching the whole bead thing during Mardi Gras, so the French Quarter got a free pass. > It seems a little grandiose and narcissistic to me to attribute a > day's weather to God's intention to give him a bitch'n birthday > while his same power over the weather is causing untold misery > and death in other places. Indeed. Well said. > The atheist can enjoy the beauty of a great day also, he just > doesn't need to imagine that a divine being is slapping him five > with the weather. Well said again. > This discussion reminds me of those guys who pray for victory > for their sports teams and then sing his praises if they win. > Or the musicians at the Grammies who thank God for their award. > > Any God who would change the weather for a birthday, create a > game turning interception for a specific sports team, or meddle > in the affairs of the voting process for best female hip hop > artist...while ignoring the Guinea worm and malaria mosquito, > would be the lamest God ever imagined by man. And yet, there you have it. That IS the God imagined by man. Then again, we're talking man. As a creature, he is ill-regarded in the greater universe. The actual definition in the Encyclopedia Galactica for "man" reads, "An ape-descended, primitive life form so lost in self-importance that it imagines an all-powerful and interven- tionist God, and then the most important thing it can think of to ask Him for is that the Raiders win the game today."
