We’ve all heard terms like “lying for
Jesus” and, of course, who hasn’t heard about those lunatic hate mongers, the
Westboro Baptist Church and their slogan, “God hates fags”. I find these particular attributes of “holiness”
to be quite confusing. In fact, I find
them downright stupid. Ask any Christian
who the father of lies is and they will tell you that it is Satan. Ask them who inspires hatred and you will get
the same answer. The only conclusion
that I can draw from this is that God doesn’t mind you doing his work with
tools you borrow from the devil. How
does that make any sense? Are God’s own
tools of righteousness not good enough to get the job done? Is God’s word, alone, not potent enough
without using what could be referred to as “Satanic tactics” to spread that
word? After thinking about it for a
while I can only come to one conclusion.
These people are Satan worshipers.
Bear with me on this one. Jesus said in Matthew 12:30, “He that is not
with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.” Basically you are either all in or all
out. This type of thinking is what makes
Christians relate atheists to Satan worshipers. If you are not working for God then you are
working for Satan. There is no middle
ground. Since there is no middle ground
then this applies to everyone, including people who think they are good
Christians. It is a well established,
Biblically backed belief that you are one or the other, holy or unholy, doing
the work of Christ or doing the work of Satan.
But can you do the work of Christ with Satan’s toolbox? Again, the Bible says no. In Matthew 12 the Bible states that Satan cannot
cast out Satan because he would be “divided against himself”. It says that “a house divided against itself
cannot stand”. Jesus is saying that
Satan cannot do that which is not in his best interest. So when someone is going out to do God’s
work, why would Satan loan them his tools?
Obviously it’s in his best interest to loan out his tools or he wouldn’t
do it.
All of this suggests that you cannot do
God’s work with Satan’s tools. If you
use Satan’s tools then you, yourself, would be one of Satan’s tools. To be “Christian” is to be “like Christ” and,
based on what I’ve seen in the Bible, I can’t imagine Jesus calling anyone a
“fag” or any other hateful name.
Certainly, as one young boy recently pointed out at a WBC protest, God
doesn’t hate anyone according to the beliefs of literally every Christian I’ve
ever talked to on the matter. As Satan
is the source of hatred for God to hate anyone would mean he is affected by
Satan, which doesn’t fit in at all with any Christian teachings or beliefs.
So does God “hate fags”? I don’t think Jesus would say so. Maybe the WBC worships Old Testament God who,
let’s face it, was very much not the same guy Jesus was talking about in the
New Testament. It certainly makes
sense. Old Testament God put the smack
down on just about everyone, sometimes for almost no reason at all. Moses couldn’t see the promised land because he
hit a rock instead of speaking to it.
Any other time God would have absolutely loved the dramatic show of
striking a rock to make water come out.
But this time he was feeling kind of dickish, which he did a lot in the
OT. In fact, he was pissed off more than
not back then, killing babies and raining shitstorms down on nations and
worlds. Hell, he even rained a pretty
decent shitstorm down on his own follower, Job just to win a bet with Satan,
who apparently could walk right up to God and talk to him any time he liked,
even though Hell is “to be separated from God”…somehow… Hey, just because Satan was cast into Hell to
be separated from God doesn’t mean they can’t still hang out, right?
So, yes, maybe OT God does, indeed, hate
fags. Maybe he wouldn’t even have a
problem using a hateful slur to describe people he created, many of whom have
known they were gay since puberty, suggesting it is, indeed, an inborn
trait. But Jesus sure as hell wouldn’t
have anything to do with such hate mongers.
And even OT God wouldn’t have anything to do with liars. He once killed a man for putting his hand on
the Arc of the Covenant to keep it from falling to the ground for the love of
his God. If he kills a man for breaking
a rule out of love for his artifact he certainly wouldn’t have nice things to
say about someone who thinks so little of him that they believe they have to
lie about him to make him interesting enough to talk about.
So, I guess the good people at the WBC
are actually militant Jews. To be
Christian is to be Christ-like and they’re certainly nothing like Christ. No, they’re more like OT God, the Great
Desert Dick, as I’m sure he was known in the day. Of course, that’s assuming he was known at
all. You would think Egypt would
remember him in their long history. Yet
amongst the pyramids, statues and Sphinxes there is not one depiction of frogs
falling from the sky, the death of every firstborn male child, the Nile turning
into blood, boils covering all the people of Egypt or any of the other ridiculous
things which are claimed to have happened but which all other sources of
history conveniently seem to have forgotten.
I certainly can’t argue that the members
of the WBC aren’t like that guy. And
that’s the problem with having a bipolar god.
There’s a mood to match any kindness or hatred you want to spread across
the world. You’re the same person you
would be without a god because you shape your god to what you want it to
be. You hate gays? How convenient that your god hates them
more. You have to lie to people to fill
the pews? How convenient that your god
doesn’t mind. You want to help the
poor? Good news! That’s EXACTLY what your god wants you to
do! You want to kill people who aren’t
like you? Excellent! Because that’s exactly what your god wants
you to do now! God seems to want so many
things incompatible with many of the other things he wants.
People think they are bending to God’s
will. In reality they are building a god
around their own will, the way people have always done. It’s the nature of all the gods people have
ever worshiped. Those who worship
weakly custom build their god to be exactly what they want. Those who worship strongly are, themselves,
weak, bending to the will of the people who tell them what their god wants from
them. The stronger the worship, the
weaker the person. And the louder the
ranting, the dimmer the mind. I would
love to see IQ tests for the members of the WBC. I bet the scores would give me a real
chuckle.
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