Is God on Facebook?
The Catholic church is demanding anyone who voted for Barack Obama to repent for their sins. Meanwhile other churches supported Prop 8 because “God is against gays getting married”.
It’s interesting that everyone seems to have the inside scoop on what God has been thinking lately. I can’t help but wonder how all these churches are talking to God?
Is God on Facebook? Can I call 411 and get God’s home phone number? Can I add God as a friend on MySpace? I’d really like to know.
I thought the only way to interpret the word of God is to read a Bible. I was raised in a Catholic church, I went to Sunday school, and I read the Bible. I don’t know if other people have a magical Bible with more answers, but I thought the copy I read was available to the general public.
The Bible I read spoke of love and compassion. It spoke of treating all human beings fairly and accepting everyone, even if we didn’t understand them. It taught me that even minorities, even gay people, deserved to be treated with the same respect as everyone else… because we are all God’s children.
I’m not sure where religious people get all their anger from. I have to wonder if they have even read the Bible, because I really have. The only way I know to talk to God is to pray. I pray for peace of mind, I pray for love and acceptance. I pray for kindness… that I may be a better person and that others will be better towards me. I pray for the answers to come to me in their own unique way.
Believing in God is a risk we take. Their is no physical evidence that God exists. There is no way to prove it. We have to decide how we want to live and decide what we believe in, and that’s the best any of us can do. We make a choice on our beliefs and we don’t know if we were right until we die.
So I encourage the religious community — stop speaking for God. You’re no better than I am. You don’t have any unique insight into God that I lack. We can’t speak for God, we can only speak for ourselves.
Own up to your prejudices, and accept them as your faults. But don’t blame your hatred and ignorance on God.
I believe in a God that loves me and made me exactly the way I am. If you believe in a God that’s anything less than loving, you obviously haven’t read the same Bible I read.
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Ditto.
Well said!! I agree 100%.
im on facebook, add me suga!
I think it was just one random priest who said people who voted for Obama should go to confession. Just one. Not the whole church (thank goodness!).