Conversations With God

I thought that maybe with all the suffering in New Orleans and Mississippi as of late I should check in with the big guy....you know, GOD. It would appear that every other militant, angry, fanatical, axe grinding minister, and anti-abortionist has-- so why shouldn't I? I didn't realize that these so called "leaders" all have an open pipeline to GOD. As it turns out they don't. For if they did, they wouldn't lay claim to recent events being "GOD's wrath".

Remember the movie Oh GOD! with George Burns and John Denver? GOD chose to reveal his disatisfaction with man through a simple servant(Denver); problem was no one would listen. GOD asked Denver to confront a certain minister who was claiming to speak for GOD when he beseeched America for more money to be sent to his ministry. The minister tried to make Denver look like a quack, and pretty much did. The bottom line was that GOD did eventually appear, and in true Hollywood fashion just in the nick of time to prove to a stunned courtroom that Denver was not a quack, and that HE (GOD) exists.

That GOD exists or doesn't exist isn't really my concern, this is a personal belief issue for everyone to work out themselves. I say GOD, and I mean more than one deity, whether it be Jesus, Buddha, Allah, Jehovah and so on...to me GOD is many.....The problem with speaking for GOD arise when certain ministers and fanatics try to grind their idelogical axes into impressionable, searching souls in an effort to justify really their political views.

I've now seen two very documented assertions within the past week that claim New Orlean's destruction to be GOD's wrath. Really now? One comes from Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrahkan, and the other from Repent America director Michael Marcavage. Farrahkan claims this is America's come-uppance for our brutality in the middle east, and our mistreatment of the Palestinians. I think this is crap, no matter what side of the ideological fence you sit on. GOD is not a spiteful GOD. If he were, why then has he chosen the weakest, poorest and most undeserving of New Orleans for his wrath? The other disseminator of GOD's will-- Marcavage claims GOD has inflicted this penalty for New Orleans for its abortion clinics, and the general immorality of the city. Sure Mike, that makes sense.

This is what happens when we try to make sense out of a "natural disaster" of epic proportions. Is it not possible that it was only a matter of time statistically speaking, before a major hurricane was going to overwhelm a city far below sea level?. If the Minister's words were true then where is Africa's payback for Rwanda....or Germany's for the Holocaust; how about Cambodia's for the slaughter of over one million people under Pol Pot? These countries appear to be far more deserving of "GOD's wrath" based on the sheer numbers of people murdered. Obviously these so called prophets and ministers neither speak for the majority of Americans, nor do they represent any type of resposible morality when they claim the innocent are taken because of a nation's political policies or women's rights. GOD knows that government's start wars, not people. Still, this is America, and these men are free to say this---I wonder if they would have been able to say this in Rwanda, Cambodia, and Nazi Germany?