So I am driving home tonight and I see a car with a bumper sticker ahead of me which reads "God is Pro-Life"
The word God is in red and the Pro-Life part is sort of shaped like a flag and is colored like the American Flag.
This got me to thinking.
Now before I fly off into the ether, let me just state for the record that as far as I am concerned I personally am Pro-Life. Meaning that if I had ever managed to find a fertile place where my seed could find good purchase, I would not extinguish this little bundle of joy. It simply is not who I am.
However, it is not my place to decide for someone else what they should believe in or how they should handle their given life situations.
After I read this bumper sticker the first thought I had was "have you ever heard of the great flood?" God made sure that plenty of things perished in that little temper tantrum. I know they were evil and all that but at least some of them had to be pregnant. Why would God condemn all those little kids prior to their getting a chance to pop out and become the evil little shits that their parents obviously were?
On top of that, I find it more than a little offensive that some prick chooses to spew the word of God on the back of a Honda Civic! But I digress...
I wondered...did he actually have a conversation with God? Is that when God revealed to him that he was Pro-Life? Perhaps he did. Perhaps he is a chosen one and did have a chat with our creator.
However if he didn't, then I wouldn't want to be his ass when the final bell rings.
Remember your Dante.
This guy would probably find himself in the 8 Circle of Hell in the 4th Bolgia (the place for false prophets).
Now I dig that thats a stretch, but putz boy brought God into the thing in the first place. I simply am trying to see this through to it's logical conclusion.
What's the point? Only that if you are going to speak for God, you ought to get a couple of things clear first.
1. God is God and as such can do what he damn well pleases.
2. Speaking for God is a bad career move...spiritually speaking.
3. If you choose to spout shit, then be ready for the obvious result...an extra hot spot in Hell with your name on it.
4. Put this shit on a better car, not that I would dare speak for God (frankly pissing him off scares the shit out of me), but I have a hunch that God drives a Harley...
Move along...move along...nothing to see here.
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Hondas and Harleys aside, I agree with you. People should have a really good reason for speaking *for* God. Like maybe, I don't know, His number on speed-dial on their phone.
ReplyDeleteI am pretty sure God speaks to individuals. I am also pretty sure that when He speaks to individuals, He speaks TO them, and FOR them. I guess if they choose to share what they believe they've been told, that's fine. But they shouldn't ever presume anyone's going to pay attention--especially me.
Truer words have never been spoken. I myself am a pro-choice kind of person although I have never been in the situation where I have had to exercise that option. It never ceases to amaze me how many fairly uninfomed village idiots roam our streets. My favorite is "Lord Please Save Me From Your Followers". You my friend are getting to be quite the word smith.
ReplyDeleteI have always found it offensive for people to tell me that they, and only they, know the true words of an entity capable of creating a process that is so complex and beautiful. I personally don't subscribe to the traditional definitions of eternal consequence, and I have found in my personal experience that the types that typically evoke these prophecies and advertise them to the world have an ulterior motive that is typically not the one espoused in the advertisements they show the rest of the world.
ReplyDeleteI don't know that there is, or is not a pattern that was intended for those of us that have an ability to reflect on our conciseness that the creator has in mind. But I would think that the intentions behind any actions of those who try to persuade us to their point of view, whether or not they are conscious of these true intentions, would be the basis for the judgment. (If any)
A false prophet would need to be conscious of intent for the deceit, and not just a victim of such a prophecy themselves.