God Needs Money

According to a blog I saw George Carlin said the following: God is all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, all-wise, but he NEEDS money. Cute, maybe a little humorous if you view it from the correct, honest angle. Do people really think about this subject? There's a line in a song where a hippie assures God that he's doing fine and thanks Him for thinking about him as the plate is passed. For those of you who just don't get it, here's reality. It costs money for a group of people to build even a small, special building where they can gather to worship. They want a pastor that spends his time caring for the "flock" and studying the Bible to teach them instead of having a job. There's the water bill, the heating bill, and other things such as materials that have to be paid for. It is a luxury. Those who don't want to give an "offering" because it is the greed of the church or pastor fall into two categories - the liars and the ignorant. Sure it is possible that many churches expect more than they should but most churches get less than they need. Yes, the people who gather to worship God do need money. It's sad that there are so many people that think the way they do but, after all, they do need to buy that X-Box or that bass boat or whatever it is that they don't have yet. Hey, that kind of sounds greedy to me when there are hundreds of millions of people who have trouble keeping food and shelter. I guess that would have to fall into the hypocritical category. Surely you wouldn't want to hand any of that money over to someone who actually cares about and tries to help those barely-surviving people. Those greedy missionaries.

Time for Dumb Questions

Here is a post that humored me:
how could the virgin mary possibly have a baby?
how does did jesus' body just 'disappear' from his tomb?
how could a god scientifically exist?

Other than the apparent illiteracy induced by text messaging, there isn't much thinking going on here. Three consecutive questions, three simple explanations. If there is a God that can do or create anything (the universe, for example), it doesn't seem to be a tall task to make a woman pregnant if you happen to be her creator that made all of her work correctly. Hmm? To the second question, doesn't it say something about the huge stone being rolled away. Gee, then he could walk out just as it says. I cannot say whether or not these first two things happened but it doesn't take much thinking to understand how easy they would be. Whether Jesus was God in the flesh or God used him to show his abilities, couldn't God do these things with no effort? The third question is the one that people who hate God don't like to think about. Why does God have to exist "scientifically"? He created the universe. He established its rule and set things into motion. To us He is all-powerful. What would we do to "scientifically" prove or disprove God? We only have the tools He gave us - the universe, our senses, our logical thought. Unfortunately, all those things are limited to our understanding of what we can determine with our limited resources, including our very limited brains. What is the realm of God? Does He live inside the universe, outside, both? People are so limited in their thinking and the sort of "enlightened" nonsense spewing out of their parrot mouths is pitiable.  They do not want answers. They are trying to appear intelligent and "above it all." Don't waste your time with them. It will be an endless discussion that goes nowhere because there is no more room in their cluttered brains. I think they're funny. I should be sad that they are denying themselves the happiness they don't deserve.

Did God Promote Murder?

I've been reading the whiner blogs. You know, the ones where people with no lives and no one to blame go to to complain about the idea of God and the Bible? There are varieties of peoples in the "Old Testament" that God ordered to be killed. The question is why were they to be killed. It's very simple, liberal minded non-thinkers. It is the same reason as God told the Hebrews to take the land slowly - else the wild animals would kill them. You see, wild animals are competition and many of them see you, humans, as food and competition. It's like the joke about the liberal and his family being accosted by an evil man. Should I try to understand his malfunction and reason with him, or should I kill him before he kills me and rapes my wife and who knows what to the kids? The answer for those who don't get it is to kill him before he kills. I guess you don't listen to the news or you would be quite familiar with a man who did this very thing. Do you think he could have been reasoned with? In many cases, in the primitive world of the "Old Testament," societies were like packs of wild dogs. Many cultures just wanted wealth and slaves to do their work and would do anything to get that. Other cultures refused to be civil at all to the Hebrews. Many cases weren't explained. The so-called enlightened people of our time have no concept of what life and societies were like in those times, yet they are quite ready to judge. I'm sure God would have done a lot of things differently had He had a more advanced world to deal with but, then again, our enlightened world isn't doing all that well, now, is it? And since we're so enlightened, we don't even care to notice Him other than to complain. Get lives, whiners. Find beneficial interests. You're wasting the lives God gave you. That's real gratitude.