World's Religious Followers Becoming Increasingly Fed Up With God’s Bullsh

[smirkymonkey]

http://www.newsmutiny.com/pages/World/God_Stinks.htm

"Tired of the seemingly unrelenting barrage of warfare, starvation and natural disaster, Muslims, Christians and Jews from Kandahar to Kentucky are losing patience with God’s constant bullshit – leading many to re-evaluate their relationships with their so-called ‘saviors’.

In the United States’ Southeast, where six major hurricanes and their deadly tornado offspring have killed thousands and left many thousands more homeless and destitute in the past year, a large fraction of its predominately Christian population have begun turning against their God in unprecedented numbers.

“Before, when some horrible calamity would befall me and my family I would always overlook God’s hand in creating the situation,” remarked 56 year-old Mississippi man who has lost three houses, two wives and one child to hurricanes in his life, “I’d even praise him later for sparing me some worse misfortune, as if he wasn’t somehow responsible for the 120 mph wind that drove a metal street sign straight through the chest of the woman I loved but was to thank for looking out for me so that I might survive to experience the misery of my loss. Well, no more. My days being the Lord’s punching bag are over! God can kiss my fat white ass!”

Thousands of miles away on the African continent, millions of people maligned by the suffering of civil war, famine, genocide and the murderous plague of AIDS in countries like Sudan and Uganda are echoing the disdain of God emanating anew from America’s Gulf Coast....(more)"

Even though this is a joke article, it makes me wonder how long the world's faithful can continue to suffer atrocity after atrocity and still believe in a "God" that is looking out for them and rewarding them for their faith. How can any religious faith believe that they are the "chosen ones" when their prayers are met with disaster, job loss, untimely death, war, homeless, hunger, etc. How much longer before the tragedy of the world tests their faith beyond what they can bear?

[C_U_L8R]

1. God increasingly fed up

with Bush's bullshit

[Vexatious Ape]

2. I'm not holding my...breath

Whenever I try to nudge the conversation this away--I'm always reminded that "god works in mysterious ways" and all sorts of related gibberish.

[spindrifter]

3. I was pleased to see church leaders in

the Seattle area speaking against *'s use of gay marriage to divide people. We have an initiative drive going on in Washington State to put our gay rights bill on the ballot--so far there are not enough signatures.

[TechBear_Seattle]

6. The referendum failed to get enough signatures; see link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=221&topic_id=35992&mesg_id=35992

With no signatures turned in, the law will go into effect Wednesday, June 7.

[Proud_Democratt]

4. To blame God...is to validate his existance. I blame religion

for the stupidity in our government. The religious majority voted for Bush.

[demosincebirth]

5. I blame the religious right.

God is washing his hands.

[smirkymonkey]

11. I am not blaming god, since I don't believe in god

(actually, I claim to have no knowledge of god, which I suppose makes me agnostic.)

What I am questioning is that most people believe in god because they think they will be rewarded either here or in the afterlife. When they devote themselves to a religion in hopes of having a better life, and continually get nailed by life's circumstances, I question the fact that most of them never "blame" their god for tragedy but still give thier god credit for the good things that happen.

It seems to me that if "god" can make good things happen, then why can't he make bad things not happen? And if not, then why believe?

[NMMNG]

7. God has nothing to do with it

Voting Republican does.

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[varkam]

9. Well...

lots of things are taught in the major religions...

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[Zebedeo]

12. God increasingly fed up

with mankind's bullshit.

Turning away from God is NOT the answer.

[LiberalVoice]

13. They've been doing it for thousands of years.

People are stupid. They'll swallow anything.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

14. Rain falls upon the just and the unjust

So it is with God's essence, which is love. God is totally indifferent to what is "right" and "wrong", "good" and "bad", which, after all, are only relevant terms. The saint chooses to allow whatever happens to happen, and to learn from it; the master knows that there are ways to tap into the Universal Mind and to change things; his life is spent learning the secrets of this. Mastery is not an easy path, and only truly works when the ego is tamed and understanding of the highest good is secured.

What I think we are seeing now is a decaying of dharma-the beginnings of the shattering of old God concepts and the construction of new ones.

[JerseygirlCT]

15. Well, I don't think there are any not "chosen", and I think the horrors of

the world, or the decision not to help others in the face of natural disasters, cannot be laid at God's hand, but at our own.

I don't know why "bad things happen to good people" as the book says. They do, and I do think we're called to help those people when things do go wrong.

Crisises can sometimes be a time of examining faith. I believe that faith comes out the stronger for the exercise, painful though it may be.

And the *rewards* aren't meant to be material, nor to be of this world. They're likely to be quite the opposite and include things like love and kindness.

[zonmoy]

16. Sounds like many more converts to maltheism

which is good, very good.