BELIEFS

One seldom investigates their beliefs. All have them and I'd venture to say 80% of them are unproven yet everyday of our lives are dictated by them, our unproven beliefs. Generally speaking we believe in an invisible entity we've never seen, with powers of unequaled voracity and believe the God to be male, merciful and kind while millions are killed, burned, starved, wars rage and hundreds of thousands are washed away in tidal waves and volcano mud buries them in their cities and churches where some have taken refuge. Yet we personally believe He has answers to this rampant killing He does and has listened to our individual prayers and guided us through our lives.

Our soldiers believe if they pray to God they will be victorious in their quests to kill and maim their enemies, who are praying on the other side of the DMZ for victory in killing and maiming their enemies, you know, on the other side of the DMZ. Now we want our God to play favorites, that little game of ours since childhood learned from the adults that really rule our lives.

We are dragged to church and told that God is a white man sitting on an enormous throne in a toga. He has a gazillion angels that just stand around singing about how wonderful he is. In our child's mind we think of the hungry kids in China that were starving so we had to eat all our breakfast, and wondered why God didn't send some of those angels just standing around, down to feed those kids.

No matter what happens to us, it was meant to be. We are told God likes us to suffer and has a plan for us. We learn when we die we will lie quietly in our graves until Jesus comes for us, though nobody seems to know why there are still ghosts walking around, you know the kind they tell us don't exist, where are they going? And why does there have to be a war before Jesus can come and rescue us? Why is there so much blood shedding? Cant He just speak peace into the world? 'They told me He could. He spoke the world and Universe into being, so why can't he just say to all the waring nations, "Go home and feed your poor". He could do that.