I brought up the subject of suffering with God again today. I’ve established in previous conversations that the amount of suffering one endures in their life has nothing to do with whether or not they get into Heaven. This led me to wonder why a loving compassionate God would allow suffering to exist […]
It was time, as such things go, for me to ask God directly about homosexuality. Obviously she can’t be all just fire and brimstone about it, because she comes and talks to me every day. Of course, she could have been playing the same game as me, she could have been just biding […]
A lot of fiction is about super heroes of varying degrees. Some of it is explicit to the point of being over the top, like many famous comic books and the movies based on them, but a lot of it is more subtle. So there’s this whole range, everything from barely super, like […]
Well, today is Ash Wednesday. That’s the Christian holy day that marks the start of Lent, the time of preparation for Easter. On Ash Wednesday all good Christians are supposed to head to church and get ashes smudged on their forehead in the shape of a cross.
I asked God what she thinks of […]
Tomorrow is Fat Tuesday. That’s the day before the start of Lent, a period that Christians are supposed to spend purifying themselves for Easter. Of course more people these days seem to know Fat Tuesday as the final day of Mardi Gras. This follows the same trend that Halloween has used to […]
I was thinking about “cat people” versus “dog people” and it occurred to me to wonder if God ever thought of us as pets. Of course there’s a lot of different animals that we keep as pets, so reducing it down to a question of dogs versus cats is about as much of an […]
What with today being St. Valentines day, I was thinking about sex again. In particular I was thinking about the whole “be fruitful and multiply” thing. What I asked God about, was that it seemed to me that it was kind of a redundant thing for him to tell us to do, after […]
I was mulling over the notion that both monotheism and polytheism are true at the same time. If you’ve been reading along, you may remember that that first came up in a conversation back in October (see Universal Truth?) and then again in November (see Elephant Parts). The idea is that everything is […]
One of the big fights between the Christian Fundamentalists and, well, others, is the battle over which is correct, Evolution or Intelligent Design. It’s such a big battle, in fact, that you can expect me to keep bringing it up when I talk with God. It’s not that I think God has been […]
There’s this thing out there called Peak Oil. Peak Oil is the point at which the daily production of crude oil reaches the maximum it’s ever going to be. Now production here means “taking oil out of the ground” since the actual production of the oil was a natural process that took millions […]
Starting Monday, I’ll be posting a little less often. I’ll be putting up a new Unscriptured post every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. For those of you that are regular readers, I hope this won’t be too big of a disappointment.
Heaven has been depicted many different ways both in religious texts and in popular entertainment. To a lesser extent so has Hell. Both of them have, at times, been depicted as just being life here on Earth, perhaps best illustrated by the famous Marlowe quotation, “Why this is Hell, nor are we out […]
Christian religions, and I assume many others, have an injunction against committing suicide. So do many legal systems. I asked God why this is. He told me that the official reason for religions has usually been one of two things. The first is that our lives belong to God so we […]
Billy Joel wrote, “I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. The sinners are much more fun.” I’ve known a lot of people that believe in that assertion, so I thought I’d ask God how he felt about it.
He told me he’s amazed at the number of people that use […]
So, finishing off this week’s sports theme, I decided to ask God what she could tell me about our worldwide fascination with physical competition. If there’s anything that rivals religion for the amount of time we devote to it, especially on Sundays, it’s sports.
God says, we revere people that are good at sports so […]
My mind is still on the upcoming Superbowl. Football has been called a modern form of gladiatorial combat. I asked God how he felt about that. I mean, back in the days of the gladiators they were just one part of the bread and circuses; another part was throwing the Christians to […]