God Hates Everything

Wow it’s hot, God must hate us.  It seems no matter where I look I see things telling me what god hates.  Depending what religion you are he hates everyone else.  Since there are people of all faiths then if we took everyones perspective and canceled one hate with one love we would have God hates Muslims, Christian and Jews.  Hmm.

I guess that means God hates me.  God hates you, God pretty much hates everything and everyone.  If you have ever felt hate you know it’s the kind of feeling people act on.  People kill things they hate.  No I know we are talking about a being that is above all of this right?

Hold the phone the holy texts all talk about Gods wrath.  In fact I swear I remember reading something about God getting all mad and killing everything except the things on a big wooden boat made by Mr. M.  Did I imagine that or did it really happen?  I’m right right?

OK now if I was a God, and trust me to my dogs I am a god.  If I hated everything and I had the power to wipe it all out and start over I would.

Maybe god doesn’t actually hate homosexuals.  If he did he would probably flood a few cities, at least that’s what I would do if I was a God filled with hate and wrath.

I’m not into being hated, so I figured I better go check out if god hates me.  I figured I would start with the Ten Commandments.  You know I’m all about Commandments so I dove right into this one.  I hit the bottom of the shallow end pretty hard.  The confuse the hell out of me to be honest.  I got stuck on Commandment #3.

“You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.” (Exodus 20:2–17)

But now I get it.  God Hates us all because we are morons.  You see he only gave us ten laws to fallow, and we all busted this one.  I swear I know you guys have idols in your churches, I have seen them.  Wow thanks, God doesn’t hate gays he hates all of us because some asshole put an idol up in his house and everyone prays to it, nice, good going guys.

Yah then I got to farther down the list and I realized it’s not just the idols it’s the poor people too.  I blame the poor, I see poor people working on Sunday all the time, no wonder God is so pissed off at us all.  Wait then I realized it’s not just the poor it’s the rich too, God hates the rich because it clearly says way way down at the end God hates rich people.  OK technically is say you have to work for 6 days and rest on the 7^th.  Almost all the rich people I know take 2 day weekends.  It also says that “…you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns” all are supposed to rest.

And then bam light a lightning bolt from heaven it hit me.  God hates us because we don’t have slaves.  How can we make sure our slaves rest on the Sabbath if we don’t have any slaves.  God wants us to have slaves so we can make sure they rest.

I guess if you believe in the Ten Commandments and you pay someone to work for you on the Sabbath you are breaking one of those Commandments at the very least.  I will have to do more research but I am pretty sure that’s a mortal sin and that means God Hates you.  Wow, we’re screwed, no wonder God hates everyone.  I’m taking my money our of oil and investing in umbrellas.

The Longest day

With the Solstice summer has arrived, and in LA it’s brought the heat with it.  Long host summer days are part of why we love LA, but it’s also a reminder that there are more long days ahead.

With a renewed sense of hope we march forward, as we always have towards a better day, but the oppressive heat gives me pause.  I sit in my office with three computers adding to the building heat.  The AC unit I bought last year during the worst heat wave I can remember since moving to LA sits behind me turned off.  I’ll turn it on when I can’t do anything but turn it on.  Until then I’ll keep a cold drink on hand.  Our electric bill arrived yesterday and that’s hotter than I have ever seen as well.

As I thought of what the solstice means to me today I remembered a story I had seen on TV several months ago.  It was an examination of poverty and environment.  Two families in similar conditions where part of this examination.  On family was from the heartland of the great nation and the other lived in Africa.  Though both families fought a daily struggle to feed there children the family in the USA was desperate and seemingly without hope.  The family in Africa however desperate had hope, they laughed and the children played as the cameras rolled.  The difference was striking, and left a lasting impression.

There are few who would argue, no matter how bad things seem they are a lot worse in Africa.  But it may be easier for the poor there to hold onto hope because while the disparities are greater, they are a lot less obvious.

We are asked to conserve while our elected officials drive to work in a Hum-vee.  We are asked go with less while we see excess all around us.  We are asked to pay $4.50 for a gallon of gas while Big Oil posts the highest corporate profits of all times.

Is ignorance bliss?  If you feel powerless maybe it is.  Most people don’t need to be rich they just need to pay there damn bills.  Regardless of how far we feel we might have fallen over the last 8 years the truth is that the United States of America is still the richest and most powerful country in the world by a huge margin.  For many this is exactly the problem.

Children in this country go without food and water while we spend hundreds of billions of dollars sending other children to die in wars on the other side of the world.

Our government bails out Bear Sterns—it’s starting to look like I can replace that statement with bails out a bunch of rich criminals—yet refuses to extend the same courtesy to it’s citizens.

We send Aid to foreign countries yet refuse to help our own.  We show the suffering of people in far off lands but we ignore those in need who live across the street.

Free hand outs just encourage the lazy to be lazy.  But there is a difference between an hand out and a helping hand.  Until we help our own people how can we help anyone else.  To those of us with the highest ideals I say open the dialogue in a real and honest way.  To those who would keep the status quo I said “You’re either with us or you’re against us.”  Turn about is fair play after all.

I had to turn the AC on while I finished this post.  I guess I will have to pay for that later.

There is so much amazing technology and wealth in this world now there is no reason every child in this country can’t get a good meal and a solid education, and there is no reason I can’t have my AC on.  We need to stop crying about how bad things are and start helping grass roots politics get our local voices heard.  Voting down party lines is the single biggest bullshit concept I have ever heard.  It used to be called the Democratic-Republican Party and it’s bullshit.  You want your AC?  Vote out the old guard. Obama and McCain are just two sides of the same old worn out coin.