Christian Fail

[mirrorshard]

I wanted to write something about this (via fjm) but I haven't the heart to do more than rant bitterly. That kind of sheer wrongheaded childishness... the pathetic naivety of their idea that God may be compelled or persuaded by prayer, or indeed that God has enemies...

We're told that He smut^[1] a few people in the past, but that's all over, if indeed it ever did happen. He's grown up now, a Father and everything, and I'd like to think that we're better people too - or at least that He picks His friends more carefully than He did then.

I know that the crazyweird morons will always be with us, but it's always depressing to be reminded of their existence. And I do have faith that I'm not going to have to go have That Talk with Himself... you know the one.

"Look, I love you, you know that. But if you smite anything, just one more time, it's all over between us. I'm not prepared to be with a smiter. The God I fell in love with would never do that."

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[1] Yes, that is the correct past tense of 'smite'. He smites; the target becomes smut.

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[mirabehn.livejournal.com]

And in the interests of honesty, as a pagan and a pantheist-polytheist, I should add that most Deities seem to change a great deal, and an awful lot of them have pasts that involve too much smiting. A lot of Gods who are very common in pagan pantheons no less than the Jewish, Christian and Muslim God; I get irritated with fellow-pagans who get self-righteous about that.

And there I probably reach the limits of my rather embryonic theology. I may have more to offer on this subject in a few months or years. ;-)