Reply #31: If examining human history has shown me anything, it's that...

[0rganism]

...God, or Gods, if he/she/they exist, just doesn't give a shit.

Not about any one person or group of people or species of animals or system of planets or local cluster of galaxies, anyway.

I don't rant about this often, but tonight I feel one coming on.

Some people act like God is their personal weight trainer and mafia hit squad rolled into one, simultaneously aiding the righteous and smiting whatever seems iniquitous to them at the moment: "Thunder on my right? Oh, Zeus must be pleased with our efforts! Tidal waves smiting coastal cities? Guess they didn't sacrifice enough horses to Poseidon, etcetera."

Fine. If they want to believe that crap, they can go right ahead as far as I'm concerned, and I'll appreciate it if they keep it to themselves. Unfortunately, those who are the most vocal about their faith in the almighty tend to be those who, in my opinion, most need to shut their pieholes. And I'm not singling out the Christians here, it's everyone with the "agenda god complex": Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, neo-Pagans, whatever.

"God helped me win the lottery!" Great, good for you, and in His infinite wisdom He had thousands of people lose the lottery, too.

"God saved my life!" Fantastic, if only He could do the same for everyone... oh wait, He could and chooses not to. How special!

"God destroys the sodomites with AIDS disease!" Really? Last I heard, it was heterosexuals with the higher infection rate.

"We are God's chosen people!" Yeah, you keep telling yourself that all the way to the concentration camps, okay?

And so on, and so on, and so on. People with the agenda god complex are fully capable of believing that God made millions of starving impoverished Indians, heck, the entire Hindu caste system, just so Mother Teresa and her nuns can come in and help them.

I wish all those nuts who go around thinking "God is on my side, not yours, just mine", I wish they'd just make it their own little secret, because even thinking about that shit makes me nauseous.

/rant