I'm Getting A
Terrific Headache
With This 'God'
Janet Voska
From: "Janet Voska"
To: "Positive Atheism" <editor@positiveatheism.org>
Subject: Positive_Atheism_Letters_Section
Date: Monday, July 31, 2000 8:37 PM
I'm getting a terrific headache with this "god" is and "he" isn't scenario on this site.
Say I'm a poor, illiterate peasant, living in who-knows-where?, and some evangelist comes to save me. How the hell am I supposed to understand "God" in a way I can grasp logically -- Oh, no, I gotta go to church, I gotta study the Bible -- and of course, I gotta learn to read --
All I can say is, what kind of "God" would make understanding him so complicated -- so confusing --
If I'm such an ignorant peasant, why doesn't "he" just blow in my ear "I'm God" and be done with it. I'd sure pay attention and listen up -- but no, I gotta get into all this bullshit of being saved, going to church, studying the Bible, on and on when just a "Hey, you!" would have done the trick.
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