God, Why Did You Let So Much Stuff Happen?

I do hope that someone I am friends with on facebook  posts that.  Oh the fun I would have…

God the micro-manager.  But heaven forbid (no pun) he should do something helpful on the large scale!

Forgive my misspellings. :/

According to this guy, we’re asking the wrong question

I’m a Christian, and this line of reasoning drives me absolutely batty. 

So God brought someone else into the path of the drunk driver because he didn’t love that person as much? And, on the same day that God manipulated events so  that you wouldn’t be on the road today, he allowed 30,000 children to die from preventable disease? 

Ugh! It makes me crazy. 

Where we tend to see God working says more about us than it says about God. And when people always see God working in ways that preserve their own comfort and happiness, I am suspicious. 

Ok, follow up question then, “Why did this super smart and kind god make me so messed up that I would end every day deserving to get all jacked up?”

eh i got pissed off right at the start just by seeing what the guy was miffed about. his car didn’t start right away and he’s talking to the sky daddy like a whole in the world opened up under him. please i’d tell the dude to get over himself already.

So this was the full original conversation:

Me: God, can I ask You a question?
God: Sure
Me: Promise You won’t get mad
God: I promise
Me: Why did You let so much stuff happen to me today?
God: What do u mean?
Me: Well, I woke up late
God: Yes
Me: My car took forever to start
God: Okay
Me: at lunch they made my sandwich wrong & I had to wait
God: Huummm
Me: On the way home, my phone went DEAD, just as I picked up a call
God: All right
Me: And on top of it all off, when I got home ~I just want to soak my feet in my new foot massager & relax. BUT it wouldn’t work!!! Nothing went right today! Why did You do that?
God: Let me see, the death angel was at your bed this morning & I had to send one
of My Angels to battle him for your life. I let you sleep through that
Me (humbled): OH
[TROLLOLOLOL]
God: I didn’t let your car start because there was a drunk driver on your route that would have hit you if you were on the road.
Me: (ashamed)
[Stop the drunk driver’s car from starting.]
God: The first person who made your sandwich today was sick & I didn’t want you to catch what they have, I knew you couldn’t afford to miss work.
Me (embarrassed):Okay
[If you could interrupted the sick person’s free will to force them to make my sandwich incorrectly, why didn’t you just stop them from making my sandwhich at all? Why did you even let them come in to work and prepare meals?]
God: Your phone went dead bcuz the person that was calling was going to give false witness about what you said on that call, I didn’t even let you talk to them so you would be covered.
Me (softly): I see God
[They can still give false witness whether I spoke to them or not. Even if they needed to speak to me to twist what I said, they’re eventually going to. If they wanted to do so, why would 1 dropped phone call stop them?]
God: Oh and that foot massager, it had a shortage that was going to throw out all of the power in your house tonight. I didn’t think you wanted to be in the dark.
Me: I’m Sorry God
[Why let a malfunctioning foot massager get onto store shelves in the first place? And I own the damn thing so I’m going to use it again eventually. Are you just going to keep preventing it from turning on? Electronic malfunctions set fires and burn people alive all over the country, why aren’t you stopping all of those?]
God: Don’t be sorry, just learn to Trust Me…. in All things , the Good & the bad.
Me: I will trust You.
God: And don’t doubt that My plan for your day is Always Better than your plan.
Me: I won’t God. And let me just tell you God, Thank You for Everything today.
God: You’re welcome child. It was just another day being your God and I Love looking after My Children…
REPOST if you Believe in HIM ♥

God really sucks at micro managing. If you believe in a personal god, this would be insulting to him.

I guess the problem is that believers really DO think that way. It helps
them survive hardship (even though the dialog didn’t involve any REAL
hardship), and gives them comfort when they just can’t understand. To be
a non-believer, you have to give up the security blanket, and admit
that neither you nor humanity is anything special or different from
anything else in the universe, and that SH*T happens. It takes a LOT of
emotional and psychological strength to accept that, and believers who
relate to that “conversation” are not strong.

Me:

So, Jesus, when someone does get killed by a drunk driver, does that mean you didn’t give a shit about them?

And shouldn’t you be using your omniscience and running interference to keep priests from molesting kids and such… maybe you could have inspired one of them to go on a drive and lose their genitals in an accident with the drunk driver; heck, I bet they’d be singing your praises and claiming it was a miracle they had lived. (Which, come to think of it is kind of weird, because death is supposed to be the beginning of “happily ever after” for a Christian… you’d think more Christians would be courting death by not wearing seat-belts and such.)

What about the hijackers on 9-11… why not just thwart them the way you thwarted me… or thwart the passengers on the plane from getting on the plane the way that you thwarted that atheist, Seth McFarlane who missed his flight that day? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwR1RWH-Hes Or use your superpowers to land the planes safely– you ARE omnipotent, right? Why not use it for something spectacular.  Or does Allah have more pull than you? If I had the power to land the hijacked planes safely, I’d have felt monstrous not to.

And it’s nice of you to care about my not getting an infected sandwich so I don’t miss work– but what about all those people with no jobs or the kids that are dying because of no food? Why are you going out of your way to help out a spoiled brat like me when children are starving?

I mean I guess I should be glad you took a break from helping out Tim Tebow and others achieve their assorted victories to make my comfy life a little more comfy in the long term… and I guess I should praise you in case you take the goodies away– but I’m beginning to see why atheists think that you are akin to Santa Claus for adults.

So this is what you are doing these days… running interference that is indistinguishable from a coincidence? Does this mean that all Christians would have much crappier lives if they didn’t believe and worship you? No offense, but this isn’t even as impressive as those Greek Gods… just sayin’

And say… while I’ve got you here, Jesus… are you god? or god’s son? Or both? And if you’re god then why didn’t you just use your omniscience to get rid of all the useless suffering… you know, just make sure that the people you knew were going to end up in hell just didn’t get born and stuff– never make the crappy stuff in the first place. Better yet, why did you create hell and Satan? Why would a “perfect” being do such a crazy thing… especially if he could see how much suffering would result and had the power to prevent it?

I know these questions might seem rude and all– but this is the first time you’ve ever appeared to me and been distinguishable from a voice in my head, so naturally I thought I’d ask so I didn’t have to try to find the right religious blowhard to divine your answer. 

I linked an interview with atheist Seth McFarlane talking about him having arrived too late to board Flight 11 on 9-11. The link is from a Piers Morgan interview but it was put up by “truthers”.

Here’s a better interview about the experience. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obMspVT9-yw Seth says he’s grateful to the travel agent who accidentally gave him the wrong time rather than imaginary micro managing physics altering deities.
 

 I can tell you what some people think their God thinks, but it won’t make you happy….

 That word would be egocentric, right?

 Well, that too, but no, I meant “geocentric”, as opposed to “heliocentric”.

Hi Rachel,

Appreciate your thoughts here, but I would like to ask you some questions:

1) How do you rectify your views of being  christian with how christian teachings actually work? When the teachings of christian books – i.e. the bible – says that god does all things, knows all and has all power, how can you rectify your beliefs when evil exists?

2) Are you on the path of reason and intellectual openness, and just stumbling because of dogmatic residue left behind as a result of indoctrinating childhood that brainwashed you into christian belief?

The fact you are recognizing the folly of how things are seen seems to me that you are well on your way to letting go of outdated dogma and christian belief. I wish you good luck and I hope you arrive on the side of reason, fact and intellect.

What?

As a pilot, I understand the concept of “you never get credit for the crash you didn’t have”, but sorry, this type of thought does not apply to some imaginary sky fairy.

I didn’t slip on ice yesterday, thank goodness my invisible guardian dragon was there to prevent the slip. What? You say there is no invisible dragon capable of such things? Why, you must prove that…

Maybe if Adam had hands like those he’d still have all of his ribs.

I like to ask the question, “Why do you think your god will suspend the laws of probability and physics to help your favorite sports team to win a meaningless contest and do nothing about the 27,000+ children around the world who are dying of starvation and malnutrition?  That sounds a bit arrogant to me.”

Blaming God for all the bad will not help you…”a little girl was making a whole in the sand, and when her mother asked her, what are you doing? The little girl answered, I want to put that (pointing at the ocean), in here.  Her mom said, “that is a lot of water to put in there.” God is like the ocean and our brain is like that whole on the sand, nobody will ever understand it, that is when faith comes in.  

Praising God for all the good will not help you…”a little girl was making a whole in the sand, and when her mother asked her, what are you doing? The little girl answered, I want to put that (pointing at the ocean), in here.  Her mom said, “that is a lot of water to put in there.” God is like the ocean and our brain is like that whole on the sand, nobody will ever understand it, that is when faith comes in.
So in other words, God is some unfathomable who-knows-what that we shouldn’t bother to praise or blame.

In the words of Alexander Pope: “Presume not God to scan, the proper measure of man is man” 

So let’s get on with our lives and make the world a better place, and spend less time worrying about ‘God’.