Maybe…Trump is God’s way of punishing us for what we did to the Native Americans? But if so, why did he wait so long, rather than punishing the ones who were actually directly killing Native Americans? No? It’s sort of like…well, the world sort of looks like…what you might expect if there is no God.
Using that same logic, the way things are, everywhere, in their entirety,not just Trump’s election, is exactly the way this God character planned and wants them to be too, because otherwise He’s been taken by suprise or He’s unwilling or unable to arrange things otherwise, which makes God an ignoramus, asshole or a weakling. (Insert pointless, diversionary arguments about the Fallen World and Free Will here. Products that can be so easily fucked up by easily foreseen user error have been poorly desgned and built.) Not a good look for am omniscient, omnipotent, benevolent being. Given the choice, though, many of His fans would probably choose asshole over weakling. God doubtlessly is okey dokey with all the Trump and Huckabee lying too, despite that whole Commandment thing. Funny that.
*The preceding capitalization of pronouns referring to an alleged god are intended for entertainment purposes only and do not reflect the beliefs of YNnB regarding the existence of, or respect owed, to any diety, living, dead or imagined and should not be taken as indicative of the holding of any such belief or respect.
YNNB, I once was riding with a fundamentalist colleague on the way back from a job. It was a three hour drive, and he spent much of it regaling me with the glories of God, and how everything was exactly how God planned it because it couldn’t be otherwise (I didn’t bother to mention to him that God wanted me to be atheist, then, because that is how I was. I knew how futile that would be, and I didn’t wish to listen to an hour of specious arguments about how he had made me atheist to test the faith of my colleague and/or give him the chance to convert me). Shortly after he stated by fiat that everything was exactly as we planned it, we entered the city of Del City, Oklahoma (a city that is so unpleasant I consider it the armpit of Oklahoma). I asked him “So, you’re telling me that God planned Del City?” He shut up for the remainder of the ride. Unfortunately, we were headed to Oklahoma City, of which Del City is a suburb, so I had spent most of the ride listening to his nonsense. And since he was driving, and had my life in his hands, I didn’t want to make him too upset.
…how he had made me atheist to test the faith of my colleague and/or give him the chance to convert me
Isn’t it wonderful to find oneself cast as a prop/pawn/bit player in God’s Glorious Plan? To have a Purpose? For the needs and fulfilment of some other’s More Important Mission, of course, but whatever. As a playwrite, this must be a particular thrill for you. Lucky, lucky, lucky! It’s certainly much better than being one of the numberless fatalities of train wrecks, plane crashes, tornados and earthquakes after which survivors are given the spotlight, centre stage to proclaim that God saved them for Some Higher Purpose while crushing, incinerating, dismembering and burying the extras whose performances in the Plan are now concluded, having served their purpose as mere backdrop to the central action of Spreading the Word and Rewarding the Faithful. (Though even this fate might have been better than being an underage extra in The Massacre of the Innocents. Like I said, lucky, lucky, lucky!)
…don’t be silly, that was Satan’s doing while God was busy elsewhere.
HERESY! Obama’s presidency was all part of the plan. It was meant to test the Faithful and stir them into righteous action. Or inaction (thank you Mitch MConnel). The point of the Obama administration was so that everything it accomplished could be undone by Trump.
God is never “busy elsewhere.” Sometimes he just has other priorities. Much like Dick Cheney.
How does she know? Did her god tell her? Did she hear her god speak to her? If so, what does her god’s voice sound like? What sort of accent does the voice have?
Karellen, that reminded me of Alanis Morisette’s rather daft question in the opening lines to her song What if God Was One of Us? ‘If God had a name / What would it be?’
Well..errm..God?
I like a lot of Morisette’s work, What If included, but my favourite has to be Ironic, even though (or maybe because) the real irony of the song is that not one of the many examples of an ironic situation she mentions is in fact an example of an ironic situation. And I still can’t quite decide whether that was deliberate or not, but I’m leaning heavily towards not.
Maybe…Trump is God’s way of punishing us for what we did to the Native Americans? But if so, why did he wait so long, rather than punishing the ones who were actually directly killing Native Americans? No? It’s sort of like…well, the world sort of looks like…what you might expect if there is no God.
Using that same logic, the way things are, everywhere, in their entirety,not just Trump’s election, is exactly the way this God character planned and wants them to be too, because otherwise He’s been taken by suprise or He’s unwilling or unable to arrange things otherwise, which makes God an ignoramus, asshole or a weakling. (Insert pointless, diversionary arguments about the Fallen World and Free Will here. Products that can be so easily fucked up by easily foreseen user error have been poorly desgned and built.) Not a good look for am omniscient, omnipotent, benevolent being. Given the choice, though, many of His fans would probably choose asshole over weakling. God doubtlessly is okey dokey with all the Trump and Huckabee lying too, despite that whole Commandment thing. Funny that.
*The preceding capitalization of pronouns referring to an alleged god are intended for entertainment purposes only and do not reflect the beliefs of YNnB regarding the existence of, or respect owed, to any diety, living, dead or imagined and should not be taken as indicative of the holding of any such belief or respect.
Geez, is it too much to ask for a spoiler alert here?! Talk about giving away the ending! So next you’re gonna be saying there’s no Santa!
LA LA LA LA LA LA! I CAN’T HEAR YOU!
If only there were some overarching legal requirement to separate Church and State…
“I don’t want to start any blasphemous rumours / But I think that God has got a sick sense of humour.”
Rumours, Depeche Mode.
YNNB, I once was riding with a fundamentalist colleague on the way back from a job. It was a three hour drive, and he spent much of it regaling me with the glories of God, and how everything was exactly how God planned it because it couldn’t be otherwise (I didn’t bother to mention to him that God wanted me to be atheist, then, because that is how I was. I knew how futile that would be, and I didn’t wish to listen to an hour of specious arguments about how he had made me atheist to test the faith of my colleague and/or give him the chance to convert me). Shortly after he stated by fiat that everything was exactly as we planned it, we entered the city of Del City, Oklahoma (a city that is so unpleasant I consider it the armpit of Oklahoma). I asked him “So, you’re telling me that God planned Del City?” He shut up for the remainder of the ride. Unfortunately, we were headed to Oklahoma City, of which Del City is a suburb, so I had spent most of the ride listening to his nonsense. And since he was driving, and had my life in his hands, I didn’t want to make him too upset.
Isn’t it wonderful to find oneself cast as a prop/pawn/bit player in God’s Glorious Plan? To have a Purpose? For the needs and fulfilment of some other’s More Important Mission, of course, but whatever. As a playwrite, this must be a particular thrill for you. Lucky, lucky, lucky! It’s certainly much better than being one of the numberless fatalities of train wrecks, plane crashes, tornados and earthquakes after which survivors are given the spotlight, centre stage to proclaim that God saved them for Some Higher Purpose while crushing, incinerating, dismembering and burying the extras whose performances in the Plan are now concluded, having served their purpose as mere backdrop to the central action of Spreading the Word and Rewarding the Faithful. (Though even this fate might have been better than being an underage extra in The Massacre of the Innocents. Like I said, lucky, lucky, lucky!)
Can we assume that this god thing also wanted Obama to be president?
What a Maroon, don’t be silly, that was Satan’s doing while God was busy elsewhere.
Anyway, isn’t ‘God’ the oddest way you’ve ever heard anyone pronounce ‘Putin’?
AoS,
It’s amazing how god’s political views so closely match the gop’s.
HERESY! Obama’s presidency was all part of the plan. It was meant to test the Faithful and stir them into righteous action. Or inaction (thank you Mitch MConnel). The point of the Obama administration was so that everything it accomplished could be undone by Trump.
God is never “busy elsewhere.” Sometimes he just has other priorities. Much like Dick Cheney.
Acolyte,
To be fair, it is this administration’s official position that Putin is God.
How does she know? Did her god tell her? Did she hear her god speak to her? If so, what does her god’s voice sound like? What sort of accent does the voice have?
H/t the newsroom s1e8 Maggie/Alan sorkin
Karellen, that reminded me of Alanis Morisette’s rather daft question in the opening lines to her song What if God Was One of Us? ‘If God had a name / What would it be?’
Well..errm..God?
I like a lot of Morisette’s work, What If included, but my favourite has to be Ironic, even though (or maybe because) the real irony of the song is that not one of the many examples of an ironic situation she mentions is in fact an example of an ironic situation. And I still can’t quite decide whether that was deliberate or not, but I’m leaning heavily towards not.