If Your God Is:
Gods Don't Kill
- For A Pre-Emptive Nuclear Strike, when diplomatic options still exist ...
- More concerned about transgendered soldiers than collateral damage in Seoul ...
- Speaking the same words about America as Babylonian, Egyptian, and Roman gods said about their rulers ...
- Silent while the world stumbles toward unimaginable suffering ...
- Always looking for someone to blame or kill ...
Your God isn’t the Judeo-Christian God. You worship power. At the end of the day, you believe in doing whatever it takes to maintain the chaotic status quo.
Your god (by your own reasoning):
- Would have taken Jesus off the cross ...
- Massacred Pilate and the Roman soldiers ...
- Led a rebellion and revolution against Herod ...
- Stoned the woman caught in adultery ...
- Called down fire against Jesus’ enemies ...
Your god looks nothing like Jesus Christ and the God we meet in the New Testament.
Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action. And by this we will know that we are from the truth and will reassure our hearts before him whenever our hearts condemn us; for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. – 1 John 3:18-20
The Rev. Richard Lowell Bryant serves as pastor of Ocracoke United Methodist Church on Ocracoke Island on North Carolina's Outer Banks. He blogs at Richard's Food for Thought, from which this post is republished with the author's permission.