Why Does God Hate Georgia?
Before You Folks in Atlanta Start Building Your Ark, Read This
The Atlanta Freethought Society and other groups were on hand to stage a polite and peaceful protest to the governor's clear violation of the laws regarding the separation of Church and State.
But legalities aside, the governor's actions do beg the question: Why does God hate Georgia?
If a prayer service is held in an effort to make it rain, one can reasonably assume that the governor and his followers fervently believe that God is in charge of rain. Or if not specifically in charge of it, God can surely do the deed if need be.
Then one must ask why God hasn't helped out the poor state of Georgia earlier than this. After all, the believers of the great state have already described this drought as one of "biblical proportions."
Does God hate Georgia? If so, why? (Is he pissed at Michael Vick's treatment of dogs?)
If not, was God waiting for this prayer service before deciding to act? Does he need for people to fall down on their knees and beg before he gets to work on aiding humanity? Is God that selfish? That needy? That sadistic?
Well, the God of the Old Testament most certainly is. In fact, he is probably one of the most horrible characters in all of fiction. Richard Dawkins, in his book The God Delusion, aptly describes the God of the Old Testament as "jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, blood-thirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully." I could add a few adjectives myself, but I'll spare you.
Even the most ardent believer must concede this point. As Thomas Jefferson once put it, "The Christian God is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust."
So, can we really expect a single prayer service held in the middle of the day to bring forth God's hand to make it rain? I seriously doubt it.
The God that was prayed to this morning probably wants a hell of a lot more than a few religious ramblings on a nice, sunny day. Perhaps someone should volunteer to sacrifice his only son on a mount. Because God, for some reason, must hate the state of Georgia (is it because the Atlanta Braves finished in third place in the National League East?), and as we all well know from the "good book," he's not easily appeased.
Or as Winston Churchill's son Randolph once put it after reading the Bible for the first time: "God, isn't God a shit!"
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78 Comments
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How do you know that god is false? You seem to have made your conclusion from very biased information.
Ok, lemme get this straight. You a mortal human( with limited brain power I might add), thinks god is mean because he is just when he punishes us. I really don't understand where you think thats unjust. Like a little kid saying there parents are mean when they get punished.
No, Morgan, if you actually read my articles and not just the headlines, you'd see that I don't discuss "god" but rather the delusional people who act in his name. God himself is as harmless as the Easter bunny and the tooth fairy and any other fictional character.
for someone to be such a out spoken atheist you sure do talk about "God" a lot
Firstly Dawn, the God of the Old Testament is a vile character, the worst in all of fiction. Secondly, he is indeed fiction. I hardly think you'd admonish me if I picked on Woody Woodpecker or Ebeneezer Scrooge. I make no apologies for attacking what doesn't exist.
Jack - researching the Governor's prayer for a column I uncovered this post and found not only it, but the myriad responses and the resulting dialogue, an interesting reading indeed. You confess that early in life you yourself suffered indoctrination in the Catholic Church - as have many. Perhaps your time may be better spent searching out the truth, which is hard to come by in Catholicism I admit, rather than in attacking God himself. And, if as you asserted in one post, your purpose is to bring to the forefront the discussion of religion and politics and the need to separate the two, perhaps you could find a way to do so without denigrating God and those who believe in him.
Real intelligent comment, Bolingo. I mention just why I write about "god" and atheism in my article "WHY ATHEISTS NEED A VOICE." Feel free to check it out. I'm concerned about the future of this country, and the fate of the world, which lies in the hands of ignorant, superstitious, religious zealots intent on bringing about the end of civilization to fulfill some bullshit biblical prophesy. I'm also embarrassed to call myself an American in recent years because half our nation thinks the world was created 6000 years ago, and that man was made from dust and the breath of god while in a garden with a talking snake.