God's Plan?

Oh, God’s work. A tornado rips a destructive swath through Mississippi and the survivors yet again say God saved us. Ah the religious, God love them? Don’t they believe that everything is god’s plan? God created everything, after all. Didn’t he? Isn’t he the all powerful?

That is until they don’t believe it, of course. Leviticus and homosexuality, against god’s law. But adulterers being sentenced to death, oh no, no, no, look over there.

There is a tsunami bearing down on Wikki. There is God on the beach. "Yep, just as I planned it."

There is a roaring bush fire bearing down on Malibu. There is God in the hills. "Yep, just as I planned it."

There is a teenager with an AK15, shooting at the school kids, and they are dropping one by one. God is standing behind the shooter's right shoulder. "Oh, good shot, just as I planned it.

Cyclone Ivan is bearing down on Louisiana. There is god walking across the sea. "Just as I planned it.

There is typhoon Donald, bearing down on Mississippi. There is God watching from the surrounding farmland, "Right on track, according to my plan."

There is a homeless man, taking his last breath as his starvation gets him on the streets of San Francisco. There is God sitting in the gutter. "Just as I planned."

There is a Christian reading this text. "How dare you depict God sitting in a gutter." Faceplant.

I always find it illogical that the very nature of some’s survival of a natural disaster, or tragedy, is evidence of god’s love. The all powerful only had the ability to pluck people from the danger, but not to stop the danger itself. So, who, or what, created the danger, other than the all powerful creator of all things. It is illogical. 

I wouldn’t care, believe in what you want? The great tea cup and saucer circling the planet, the Great Pumpkin, or The Great Wahzoo. But when the religious effect the issues I care about, gay people’s wellbeing and lives, trans people’s lives, gay marriage, euthanasia, woman’s rights about their bodies, not to mention the fact they are still filling children’s heads full of the stories from 2000 year old goat herders trying to make sense of the truths of the world around them as the literal truth of life today, at the same time continually affecting educators teaching compassion and equality and acceptance regarding differences in people in society today, then I can make comment.