The aftermath of a tragedy always see many people praising ‘God’ for how they managed to escape and survive the tragedy. From natural disasters like the fatal earthquake in Haiti, Tsunami in Japan, Tornadoes in Oklahoma to the very avoidable road accidents and man-made plane crashes in Nigeria, many always come up with the “Thank God I survived” and “God knows best” supplication. Truly—Thank God? Really… God knows best? Do people ever pause to really comprehend how selfish and distasteful this statement is? There you are, staring at the burnt remains of humans from a fire accident, grossly twisted bodies of innocent children from a car accident, pieces of charred human flesh scattered at a bomb blast scene or your neighbor’s body, half buried under a pile of debris caused by a natural disaster and all you could say is, thank God it wasn’t you. Really? Yes, you might be glad that you are not one of the burnt persons, that your child is not the grossly twisted child who groaned and screamed in agony but should you not save your ‘Thank God’ supplications for the privacy of your room when only you and your ‘God’ is present? How do you think it seems to the family of those bereaved when for example:- • You hold a ‘Thank God I survived’ thanksgiving in your church? • You gleefully give a testimony of how God saved you from the wreck of a burning building even though your neighbors and their innocent children all perished in that wreckage? • You claim that you survived because God loves you therefore implying that your God didn’t love the dead victims enough to make them survive or even prevent the accident? You say that it is not your portion, but then whose portion is it? Did your God gleefully assign the portion of death by fire, air crash, burning buildings or natural disasters to others while this God anointed YOU with the portion of “You shall be part of it but shall not die so that you can live to testify to my goodwill and glory”? Oh, I should save my breath but do you really think of your God as a childish, bigoted, selfish, egoist being who kill people just so you should have the opportunity to thank him and appreciate his glory the more? Is this really the image of the God you want to sell to me? Hmm…Actually, yes, this is the image of the bloodthirsty Abrahamic God as portrayed in the Holy Bible and Holy Quran, but really, do you still want to keep making Gods in your own sadistic, bigoted and egoist image?... Blogpost: wp.me/p3uryi-7j
Posted on: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 09:57:15 +0000
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