One of the memes that clergy like to propagate is that God sends us her message, puts it out there in signs and portents, and it is up to us to correctly interpret it. I asked God why she did that.
There’s another old saying, “if looks could kill…” God gave me the sort […]
So in the U.S. today is Memorial Day. A day to remember and honor those soldiers who have died fighting in war, serving their country whether it was right or wrong. Bearing this in mind I couldn’t help but think of the song “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition.” To a […]
Talking with God today, I started asking questions about the differences in his attitude from the Old Testament to the New. The Old Testament God is a God of anger and wrath. He visits plagues upon the Egyptians. He destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. And he engaged in many other outbursts of […]
There were two deaths in the last week or so that mattered to those of us here at unscriptured. The first was Reverend Jerry Falwell. The second was the mother of our tech guy, Fang. They were both pompous blowhards that used religion to guide their lives but beyond that they didn’t […]
I was looking at an art book when God stopped by today, so our conversation pretty quickly got around to the subject of beauty. Beauty is one of those words, like love, that everyone uses but whose definition is rather amorphous. It’s one of those subjective things. Sure we can (mostly) all […]
I’ve been talking with God about what it means to be created in the image of God. She’s told me that it’s not our bodies but our minds that are created in her image and that our minds are a combination of our brains and our souls. I wanted to know a little […]
Earlier this week I started talking to God about what it means that we were created in his image. He’s told me in the past that the human form came about through natural evolutionary processes with just the slightest directional nudges from him. He also told me that he doesn’t have anything like […]
So one of the things that I’ve gotten from my conversations with God is that he created evolution long before he created us and even used evolution to create us. God doesn’t like to go into too much detail when talking about such things, he says that he gave us science and our wonderful […]
I asked God if there’s a reason humans like to sit around fires and stare into the flames. He told me that he always figured it had to do with remembering happier times. So I had to ask, “What happier times?”
He said that before we’re born our souls tend to spend a lot […]
If you’ve read Monday’s post, you know that God created us both as an audience for the show that is the universe and as entertainment for her to watch. After God left, I found myself wondering about a couple of things that I maybe should have asked about at the time. So I […]
A couple of times, in our conversations, God has mentioned to me that she didn’t actually have us in mind when she first created the universe. Today I decided to push for a little more information about that.
I asked God what prompted her to create us. If we had been planned from the […]
Out of curiousity, one day I went off to one of those Christian book stores to find a book of prayers. I spent many years in a Catholic school but I came away really only knowing two formal prayers, The Lord’s Prayer (the one that starts out “Our Father, who art in heaven”) and […]
It’s pretty traditional to pray for the dead. The general idea is that through these prayers the soul of the departed will have a better shot of getting into Heaven. The assumption is that most of the people that anyone would bother praying for are in Purgatory. Logic suggests that if […]