I first heard this question posed on one our morning news shows, 2 days in a row, more than 1 year ago after the hurricane Katrina disaster. The panel of experts consisted of Jerry Falwell (presumably speaking for God), Bill Nye the Science Guy (presumably speaking for science), and some lady (presumably because she was a lady of some sort).
The conclusion seemed to be that, no, God isn’t exactly mad at us, but He is sending us some definite warnings to start turning our act around. Otherwise, there’ll be more bad stuff.
My question is, if the above question is worth asking at all, shouldn’t we be asking it every single day in a public forum? Shouldn’t this be a regular feature of everyone’s day? Why did they stop after only 2 days?
I can say that Jerry Falwell doesn’t speak for my God.
Well, how do we do that? People disagree on what we ought to do to “turn our act around”. The Jerry Falwell types would say we should stop tolerating gays, while liberals like me think that we should stop hating people including gays. We obviously can’t do both. And some people would say we should turn our act around by burning fewer fossil fuels.
Of course he’s mad at us. He’s been giving us the silent treatment for pretty much forever, hasn’t he? Not to mention that he hasn’t zapped Falwell with a lightning bolt yet. What more evidence would you want?
That’s my point, exactly. Why even bother to discuss the issue if there isn’t any God, and why drop it after 2 days if there is? If there is a God, we should be wondering like hell all the time if He’s pleased or displeased with our behavior as a human race. After all, he’d be calling the shots.
And do you think that not being “hateful” toward anyone is more God-like (and hence approved of by God) than being intolerant of various practices that some of us consider disapproved of by God?
Like any creative being, He has moved on to His next project. You don’t see Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. going back to tinker with Cat’s Cradle.
We’re on our own. Humanity and our planet are flawed. Shit happens, and usually God is not involved. If he’s mad at us, it’s probably because we’re not as entertaining as he had hoped. He has nobody to blame for that but Himself.
Well, maybe he does and maybe he doesn’t. Just because you don’t see him doing it doesn’t mean that he isn’t doing it. The author can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants.
We are apparently entertained by musing upon God’s approval rating of us! Would He not find this entertaining at all? And if He’s moved on, what are we to do? Why was the topic dropped after only 2 days? We had experts working on it, in public!
Okay, but land needs fresh water in order to grow nice things that nourish and sustain us all. Would a mad God have done something so nice for us while simultaneousy doing something so mean to us? What’s up?
If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is, “God is crying.” And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is, “Probably because of something you did.”
Well… since the last book in the Bible was written ~1,600 years ago, and no “official” word from the guy since… I’d say something happened. But not lately, not in the past few years.
Look at what people were doing in 400ce and try to figure out why God got pissed at them to stop talking to us.
You’d think that killing his son thing would’ve done the trick, but apparently not.