b118 (7.18-1.2024): god gets credit

god gets credit [i]
by b. lievers

god gets credit (really)
god gets a pass (it’s fine)
 
god doesn’t have to be good-natured (“i believe… he’s mine!”)
god doesn’t have to answer prayers (but when i’m lucky: “him!”)
 
god gets credit (really)
god wins (but me… “i sin”)
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·       believers are funny.

·       they pretend to love and worship and follow an invisible man in the sky… but can claim (“ooops!” 😊) to be sinners (who are already forgiven because they believe).  so it’s okay to f--k & s--k (outside of holy wedlock), to divorce, to beg for it in the ass, to gossip, to cheat, to drink-to-excess, to skip church, to lie, to covet, etc., etc.

·       god knows that you are only human… but he allows other (better behaved) humans (who were born into a different culture and religion) to burn in an everlasting hell for believing their parents and their elders and their culture and their holy men and their holy books.
 
believing in ‘god’ is actually the perfect out:
·       when you want something, you just ask god (forgetting that he is going to do what he is going to do, anyway).  he either answers your prayer or he doesn’t.

·       either way, he knows better than you.

·       earthquake? “maybe we didn’t believe hard enough!”  baby saved from earthquake?  “jesus saves!”  babies die in the same earthquake?  “well, things happen for a reason, and god knows best.”  “maybe it’s a sign.”  …and on and on (ad nauseum).
 
in any event, i’m sick-and-tired of people who pretend that they know what god wants, what god thinks, and that god cares.
 
it’s akin to a gnat… understanding the depths of a you-man being.
 
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[i] martino, j. (7.18-1.2024). god gets credit (really). book 118: night & day game. © 2024 by j. martino.