No One Mourns The Wicked

"And what people don’t understand is that there ARE no innocent people – every single human being is a sinful creature, and we all deserve to suffer and to die for our sins. There is no such thing as a "good person" in God’s eyes."  <–Note one someone’s diary that I read.

I couldn’t respond directly to the note leaver’s diary, because hers is favorites only.  So I decided to write an entry about it.  This is the biggest crock of sh*t I’ve heard about religion.  And I’ve heard some pretty big crocks of sh*t, from a preacher, no less!!

Now, not everything in that sentence is BS.  Yes, I do believe that humans are sinful creatures by nature.  It’s like something John Lennon once said.  "We’re all God and we’re all Hitler."  It layman’s terms, we all have the power to do great good or great evil.  It’s what we choose to do with our life, it’s what we make of the choices laid out before us, that determine who we will become more like.

But "we all deserve to suffer and to die for our sins?"  Uh, NO?  No, humans do NOT deserve to suffer and die because of our sins.  I don’t know how that person can dare call themself a believer in God.  Not to mention, God doesn’t make us suffer.  Our own selfish/vain/stupid choices do.  But honstly, an actual believer in God should know that when one is truly sorry for something they know to be a sin, and they ask God for forgiveness, that yes, they are forgiven.  So tell me.  If someone does that, asks for forgiveness from God because they are truly sorry, does that person still deserve to suffer?

And what’s that BS about "no such thing as a "good person" in God’s eyes?"  Yes, there are a lot of people who aren’t good people, they make bad/selfish/stupid choices, but God loves them anyway.  That’s what’s always said.  "God loves you anyway, because we are all his children."  How can that be, though, if no one is a good person in God’s eyes?  Oh, and don’t give me some response about how even if a child is bad, his/her parents love the child anyway.  It’s not the same.  Because you know what?  That child is still a "good person" in his/her parents eyes for whatever percent of the time.

I’m not going to pretend that I understand God’s plan, or what God is, or virtually anything about God.  I rarely agree with the so-called Christians out there about what’s said in regards to God.  I know one point I can make that will rile up a whole bunch of "believers."  I believe evolution and creation go hand in hand.  Yes, the Bible says that earth as we know it today, (well, nature-earth, not skyscraper-full-earth,) was created in seven days.  But here’s a question: when does the Bible ever say that those days were consecutive?  Or for that matter, that they were days as we perceive days?  A day for God could have lasted a million years, literally.  Therefore, creation, as is said in the Bible, can exist simultaneously with evolution, because humankind has no way of knowing how long those days were for God.

I also find it incredibly stupid, narow-minded, and self-righteous that there are people out there who actually think that they know where they’ll go when they die, or that they know where others will go when they die.  I hated it when I heard it in Sunday school, one girl talking about how it saddened her that she "wouldn’t see her Jewish friend in Heaven."  And I hated reading the notes on the entry where I got the one above.  Cuz at least one of them said something like, "I look forward to Heaven, and seeing you there."  I’d like to know, when did they look at God’s Book of Life, so to speak?  When did they ascend out of their bodies, go to a future Heaven, and see who was there and who wasn’t?  And simply, how DARE anyone on this earth say that they know where they, or someone else, will go when death grips them?  That is God’s territory, and no earthly being has any right whatsoever to say where God should place them.

As far as the hurricane in New Orleans, I’m not gonna say that God did that.  But I’m also not gonna say that God didn’t.  I certainly don’t think he caused it to "smite the wicked," or some such like that.  I think that’s ridiculous.  I mean, especially after what Dolly’s written about, a child calling out to their mother, "Why won’t mommy wake up?"  Maybe that mother was a sinner, maybe she didn’t believe in God, but is someone gonna tell me that that child deserves to suffer because his/her mother was a sinner?  That’s just stupid.  I do believe the Bible says, "The sins of the father shall not be visited on the son."

I think that God let things like the Trade Towers falling, and the hurricane in New Orleans do all that damage to try and bring us together as a country.  The Trade Towers had, I believe, a third of the normal amount of people inside when they fell.  Yes, there were a lot of deaths.  Yes, I know that’s putting it mildly.  No, I’m not trying to make it seem like it wasn’t a very horrible tragedy.  But think how many more lives would have been lost if the normal amount of people had been in them that day.  How many more thousands would have died?  Yet God planned for only a portion of those people to be inside.  It doesn’t make up for what was lost, but it gave us a chance to come together as a nation, and to stand against the ones who’d caused this horrible act.  An act they claimed which was in the name of God.  Yet, we didn;t stand together.  We fought over whether the president was doing everything he could or not.  We fought over the actions he did take.  We fought over whether the towers falling was something that could have been avoided.  The souless marketers on TV monopolized off of the tragedy, coming out with memorial statues, coins, plates, everything imaginable of the towers before all of the bodies had been dug out.  Before all the debris was cleared away.

And now we have another chance to come together as a nation.  Yet so many people are so busy looting, or shooting at rescue planes, or claiming Bush isn;t doing enough, or arguing over what should be the proper course of action.  No one in this nation wants to come together, because everyone is too busy trying to convince everyone around them that they’re right.  Maybe, just once, if we looked around and realized that other people had some good points, or good ideas, we’d actually move forward with this nation.

Simply put, yeah, there’s a such thing as a good person in God’s eyes.  Too bad no one is bothering to live up to that example, though.  We’re all too busy being selfish, styupid, narrow-minded, and self-righteous to see it.