God and I were talking about religion today. God told me that she really doesn’t have a lot of use for religion as such, she just wants people to be good and has come to the conclusion that religion is not doing that good a job of making that happen. She asked me […]
One of the things that religious folks like to say is that without the promise of an afterlife in Heaven or Hell there is no reason for us to live our lives morally and ethically. When I asked him about it, God wasn’t particularly impressed. In fact, he seemed downright saddened.
He told me […]
I was getting on the road early the other day and stopped in at a convenience store to pick up a donut and a drink. While I was in there I looked over the few shelves of groceries which hold just a little of not a lot. It got me to thinking about […]
So after a lot of advance warning and minor speculation, the Catholic Church has published a report that says they will no longer teach about the existence of Limbo, which they point out was never an official church doctrine anyway. I haven’t taken the time to read the forty-one page document, “The Hope of […]
I’m old enough to have played a lot of pinball, back before the machines were crowded out of the arcades by the frenzied beeping of the video games. There’s actually two different approaches to playing pinball, two different philosophies, if you will. They diverge over the way they deal with the tilt […]
Some people make a point of bringing up God all the time. In almost every conversation they point out how their decisions were informed by their understanding of God. Instead of forwarding emails containing lame jokes, they send out lame sermons and trite parables. I got one of these today. So […]
Today I focused on the question of why me. God has been generally evasive when I ask her things like that, but I kept at it today. I came at the question from different angles and tried to piece together her scattered answers.
She told me it wasn’t any one thing and it wasn’t […]
Long before Game Theory was formally developed as a branch of mathematics, Blaise Pascal, the French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher developed what is known as Pascal’s Wager. The wager is predicated on the premise that God rewards those who believe in him with an eternal life in Heaven. The gist of the wager […]
When God and I were talking today, the old maxim, “There are no atheists in foxholes,” came up. God told me that while there’s certainly some merit to the concept it didn’t turn out to actually be true.
There are two kinds of atheists in foxholes, she told me.
The first are true non-believers, in which […]
Yesterday was Easter, so I kind of figure I need to say something about it. Now it’s pretty well known that Easter is another one of those holidays that the Christians grabbed onto to ease the transition for newly converted pagans. Easter gets to be the big spring celebration. It always happens […]
Well, it’s Good Friday, two days before Easter, the day we’re supposed to remember the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
I never really understood why we call that “good,” but then I had an idea. I thought that maybe it was like African Americans embracing the “N” word or homosexuals referring to themselves as queer, or […]
One of the big questions is, “Why are we here?” When I ask God about this, and it comes up pretty often, he doesn’t generally give me an answer that’s meaningful in any significant way. So I was kind of surprised when something relevant came up in an entirely different conversation.
I was asking […]
In the book of psalms (37:11) it says, “But the meek shall inherit the Earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.” I’ve been trying to reconcile this revelation with the actions of the Republican party for some years now.
The Republicans have made great efforts to convince us that they’re the party […]