I watched a film today and the subject matter of the film although totally light-hearted made me come to this point. It's smiliar to points I've expressed during office conversation but from a more defensible stance.

There all these people who go around espousing that they believe in God, praying to God, worshiping him ...But the moment you turn around and say God told you to do something they automatically assume you're a nut-job.

Hang-on.

If he's so real and he listens to everyone of us [sic] then surely it is not inconceivable that he might also talk to us? And indeed if his motives are so unfathomable to us mere mortals that his priests defend them with the explanation that his designs are beyond our knowledge... Then how come no one listens to David Ike?

Ol' Ike is certainly beyond most peoples rational comprehension but we've been told for the past two millenia that we're not to question and we're not privy to the levels of existential understanding required. But it does raise the point that anyone who did claim to be the son of God now would just be ridiculed and chastised.

It does strike me as odd that when we [the ubiquitous human race] were worshiping false idols such as statues of golden cows and being a little less civilised than we are now, which in itself is an arguable point I'm not willing to defend myself, God allegedly sent his only son (lets just gloss over the fact we're all his children and Jesus, God and the Holy spirit are one and the same because that just muddies the waters) down to Earth to redeem us by talking whoopie and getting himself strung up for being a wee bit fruitier than your average smoothie.

Since those heady days of cosmopolitan enlightenment, we've proceeded to deface ourselves, commit genocide on scales that only statistics can describe and the human mind can only fail to comprehend, we've used nuclear weapons against each other and partaken of countless other unspeakable crimes against the spirit of existence.

And what came of Jesus' supposed return? Not a lot.

Unless of course, things haven't yet gotten as bad as worshiping gold plated effigies to the spirit of Moo yet...

My personal favourite hypocrisy is the 're-interpretation' of the Bible whenever it suits the Church's needs to be trendier and more Nu-Liturgy. Now each to their own and their happiness, its of no consequence to me but to press my point does it not say “man shall not lie with man” somewhere in that big waste of tree pulp?

Errmmm. Now Bishop Kiddiefiddler, exactly how DO you come to a new understanding of that statement where it means homosexuality is okay and lets bag a few of our new friends for ordainment while we're at it?

And why is it that the God squad can blather on about resisting evil and renouncing the Devil but the moment someone declares themselves as a worshipper of Satan its just someone being a bit silly, or different for the sake of being different? If he existed as the juxtapose in the sermon, he must exist and therefore be an equally valid choice for those inclined?

What about the bit about clothing? This one gets my goat especially. My limited understanding of all things Biblical leads me to believe that to be ashamed of God's image is against the grain of the tome, but the moment you're naked, believers have a tendency to denounce you as wicked and debased. Oh the irony of the long skirts and high necklines amongst the congregation...

And then there's the depiction of Jesus as a middle-class white man with a neatly trimmed beard... Please, spare me.

The whole premise of that tale is borked from the outset really. Either Joseph didn't know what it was for, or was what we educated modern types would term; a retard. There is the 100,000:1 outsider that Mary was an impossibly rare fertile hermaphrodite but I'd prefer to stick with the assumption that she was a bit clever than that carpenter she'd shacked up with. Wink!

'm going to Hell now aren't I?

I was intending that maybe this post would progress into a productive piece that would have endeavored to make some sense of my limited spirituality but mostly is just been a total flame. Perhaps, I'll get on to that subject another day.

Its still shorter though than anything I would have written about America or world politics...