No. Carlin played a cardinal or bishop. G-d was portrayed by Alannis Morissette.
You’re right. I remember thinking that it was funny having a Canadian as god.
Imagine that!
I don’t hear an answer from the Big Guy. Maybe that’s evidence that he doesn’t give a shit.
Ah. I see you’re a member of the Church of Christ the Whiney Drama Queen. You know, the one that worships a being who is vast and powerful enough to create galaxies by the billions, but also petty enough that he gets his tits in a wringer because we don’t allow kids to be taught the Lord’s Prayer in kindergarten.
“We alone?” Last I noticed, nature and chance still played a pretty big role in determining when life begins and ends. I assume you’re talking about abortion here, but waving the God Stick in our faces isn’t going to change our minds about it. Like almost any other political issue in our society today, the people who support the right to choose are themselves overwhelmingly Christian. They’ve searched their hearts and their understanding of God’s Will and decided that their stance on abortion is not at odds with their belief in a Creator. If you want to convince them they’re wrong, you’re going to need something more persuasive than, “God agrees with me, not you.” Because the folks on the other side believe exactly the same to be true of themselves.
Here’s one where I simply cannot imagine God giving a fart in a high wind. I can just barely suspend my disbelief enough to allow for a God that actually cares if we’re kind to each other in general. Usually, the economies of scale trip me up there. It’s a very, very, very, very big universe, and we’re on a very, very, very, very small planet. Far from loving and caring about us, it seems far more likely that God hasn’t even noticed we exist yet. But assuming he has noticed us, and assuming he cares what we do… what possible reason would he have for being against gay marriage? Just look at the almost infinite variety of life he’s put on this planet with us, and all the bewildering ways all those animals and plants have of reproducing, and you expect me to believe that God actually cares if Joe would rather put it to Steve than to Karen? And that he cares if Joe and Steve have a certificate from the government recognizing that they enjoy screwing each other?
This statement has absolutely no connection to any reality I’m familiar with. This country is overwhelmingly religious. It’s easily the most religious industrial nation in the world. Over 95% of the people living in here hold religious beliefs of some nature. Even if we accept that God cares about that less than 5% of us who don’t think he exists, do you honestly think he holds our existence against the 95% of you who do?
You might have something here, but I kinda doubt it. Geologically speaking, the Earth’s biosphere gets destroyed and rebuilt pretty regularly. For millions of years, the planet was set up in such a way as to support the lives of giant lizards. Then a giant rock fell out of the sky and killed almost everything, drastically altering the enviroment forever. You could argue, I suppose, that all of that was just setting the stage for us, but that’s pretty hubristic. For all we know, we’re only here to set the stage for God’s True Chosen Race: the cockroaches.
Why would he be angry about this? Cloning will lead to two things: longer, healthier lives for those of us who are already here, and another way to fill up the planet even faster. Since you didn’t include the development of penecillan in your laundry list of things God is pissy about, I assume you don’t think he’s opposed to the former. And your argument against gay marriage indicates to me that you think he supports the latter. Why do you think God would be opposed to this particular method of achieving those goals, and not any other method of doing the same?
We got a message, sure enough. The question is, was it the message you wanted us to get?
I agree. Can’t get much more simple than, “No.”
Yeah, well, God says a lot of things.
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Nice response, Mr. Miller.
"*And he went up from thence unto Beth–el: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.*"
The Second Book of the Kings, chapter 2, chapter 23-24
Hey, I didn’t realise God was in league with the godless killing machines! mstay, I hope there’s no bears in Indianapolis.
In context, this was in trusting God to provide necessities, not answers. IMO at least.
You really want to take His name out of everything in public? Shame on you. The rest of us simply want to keep people from being forced by law to blaspheme by reciting prayers and oaths that affirm something they don’t necessarily believe. You might look up what Jesus got pissed at the Pharisees for – methinks it was imposing their ideas of what God wanted in place of His Law.
Oh? I’ve heard a lot of preachers claim they know when human life starts. Never heard God Himself say a word about it. Or read any either, aside from Psalm 139, which hardly sets a specific time.
The last guy to make this snide remark, I Pitted. For your information, Johnny, some of us are happily married heterosexual couples whom God has not seen fit to bless with children – and knew it was unlikely when we married. Others are people who are currently prohibited by law from marrying the love of their lives in 49 US states, thanks to facile comments like this one. And if you think the only reason to marry is to beget children, I’d like to have the address of you wife, so that I can send her letters of commiseration. She deserves a husband who loves her and who cares more about her than about rutting with her to give himself children.
Do you do this? I’ve been witnessing for Him for seven years now here.
Well, people who think generally as you do have twice elected a man who thinks it’s a hoot to eviscerate the environmental laws when they interfere with his Big Business budies. Maybe you ought to bring this one up with the Freepers?
I haven’t the vaguest clue what Prop. 20 in MO has to say, but I’ll be very surprised if it has anything to do with human cloning. Anybody want to fight my ignorance on this proposition?
I could continue but you get the message. The answer is a simple one. Vengeance is mine says the lord
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Right. As you judge, so will you be judged. Think through who you have judged in that post.
Oh, and by the way, you might want to read Genesis 12ff. Abraham was among those who married and had no children, until a miraculous divine intervention.
I’d like to tell you sometime about Jesus Christ. He came to teach us God’s love and His will for us to live together according to His will. Because whatever it is you’re preaching, it’s not the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
At last: a church I want to join!
Can I have that as a sig line, please?
Anyway, great responses, Miller and Polycarp. I do hope the OP acknowledges them in some way.
I don’t think Adam and Eve had babies until after they ate of that wretched fruit. Am I correct? Does this mean they weren’t married? Oh my.
Help yourself.
This god you describe here doesn’t have much to do with the God in the OT, or the one Jesus believed in.
I think that if God really does exist and the subject of our home planet was raised His reaction would more then likely be “Earth?is that one of mine?”
I doubt it. God-As-High-School-Cheerleader really isn’t a fun church to belong to. “If you don’t do it my way, you can’t come to my party.” “You need to have my friends.” “The people I say aren’t cool AREN’T cool.” “What!!! you didn’t kowtow to me and show up to bask in my greatness on Sunday morning, I’ll SMITE you - and tell everyone that you like that geek Bob.”
There are personifications of God I get the desire to believe in - and personifications that just amuse me. God the Whiney Drama Queen is one I just don’t get. I left high school twenty years ago and really didn’t buy into the mindset then.
Er…isn’t that actually one of his own instructions?
Maybe it’s just me, but I’d class plastering God’s name all over public areas in the same vein, an attempt to impress people with how religious the person or group doing the plastering is.
Your point being?
Proposition 2, actually. The official title, with my bolding:
Good idea a site where you can talk to God online.
Interesting bot. :dubious: