Raining brimstone, epic deluges, trumpets from heaven\u2026is your God showing off?<\/p>\n
We have all heard of insecure people who act out by throwing fits. \u00a0The kid who bullies others on recess, the child who screams when he doesn\u2019t get his way, the buff guy in the military who wants to fight at the bar. \u00a0We call these people \u201cshow-offs\u201d and \u201cassholes.\u201d \u00a0But what happens when you find your divinity throwing a hissy-fit?<\/p>\n
One of the first things you can do is exempt your God from these tantrums. \u00a0After all, when your God says, \u201cFor my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,\u201d how can you compare the ugly-showboating of some narcissist with Him? \u00a0He is not even on your level\u2013soo transcendent that his killing of children cannot be questioned\u2013and to assume the Mighty One, who at times \u201cregrets that he made man,\u201d cannot simply be compared to a human child.<\/p>\n
Another thing you can do is opposite of the aforementioned. \u00a0You can realize your God is just like you: insecure, trying to fit in and be accepted, and prone to quick bursts of regrettable anger. \u00a0After all, your God doesn\u2019t have it easy. \u00a0Europe doesn\u2019t like him; his favorite venue, public schools, are slowly kicking him out; and Mother Teresa doubted he even existed. \u00a0God is having some growing-pains, and we can totally understand when He gets frustrated and burns down an orphanage.<\/p>\n
There are times when we wonder whether we create God on our image, soo much so that God behaves the way we do. \u00a0We are jealous, fickle, prone to anger, unreasonable, and malicious. \u00a0And so is our God.<\/p>\n
To sum it up, you can 1) try to exempt your God, \u00a02) acknowledge your God is not omniscient and is learning like you, or 3) consider God a human projection. \u00a0Either way, we are dealing with responses to a Gaudy God.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe divine being is nothing else than the human being, or rather, the human nature purified, freed from the limits of the individual man, made objective \u2013 i.e., contemplated and revered as another, a distinct being. All the attributes of the divine nature are, therefore, attributes of the human nature.\u201d\u2013Ludwig Feuerbach<\/p>\n
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Raining brimstone, epic deluges, trumpets from heaven\u2026is your God showing off? We have all heard of insecure people who act out by throwing fits. \u00a0The kid who bullies others on recess, the child who screams when he doesn\u2019t get his way, the buff guy in the military who wants to fight at the bar. \u00a0We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1428,"featured_media":3084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[465,459,266,61,315,196,501,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atheism-2","category-authority","category-bible-2","category-culture","category-humanism","category-personal","category-skeptimergent","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n