Here is an article that disturbs me. I'm not sure how it came into my digital consciousness but this is it copied and pasted. I assume these are real people with real congregations or radio audiences.
http://deadstate.org/and-now-heres-the-evangelicals-blaming-hurricanes-on-the-gays/If you don't have time to read it I will give you the "Cliffs notes". This piece quotes several media evangelists who claim that Hurricane Harvey was punishment from God for Houston electing a homosexual mayor. Several others link life style to the wrath of God, particularly Hurricanes. With the attention now on Irma, it still seems to be happening. These are the same "anointed teachers" who claimed that 9/11 was punishment from God for America's liberal stance on abortion, and God sent Katrina to New Orleans, because, well, New Orleans.
It seems like we should have risen above this idea that God is Zeus. Do we still pray to a physical God who controls a physical earth. If that is the case, according to the evangelist quoted in the article above, God seems to prefer punishing the violations of his children with water, now-a-days via Hurricanes. If I worship a God who sent the Hurricane then, why would I pray to the same God to help me get through it? That enigma has never been logically explained to me.
God is the source of all knowledge and power. I have always assumed that is absolute truth. No matter what you call that truth, God, IT, HIM or I am that I am. That source in me that connects to the infinite consciousness knowledge of existence, is too long to write much less to say. God is a three letter word, easy to type and say. From now on the letters GOD will represent Omnipotence, Omniscience, Omnipresence, Omniscient and all other gender and non-gender specific relative synonyms.
It would seem to me that God, the Being of absolute Intelligence, would also be perfectly logical. However, we attribute "acts of God" to the most illogical of circumstances. This misconception seems to go further than just natural disasters.
It is not logical that death is the price for Life. It has been a long time since we sacrificed a virgin to keep the volcano from erupting. If Knowledge and Power wanted to teach humans a lesson it would not "hurricane" an area of Earth. That's inefficient and wasteful. Life lessons from Intelligence are individually crafted and specifically targeted, passed on from one to another. Why send a Hurricane when Infinite Intelligence has the power to alter individual consciousness. Of course great wealthy religions find it difficult to make money teaching higher consciousness, people are more willing to pay for a ticket to heaven or a pass from going to hell than paying for self enlightenment. We still want someone, some thing, some circumstance to be responsible for our bad behavior. The Truth that we might be responsible for our own lessons and challenges is hard to accept.
So let's take God out of the punishment business and put God back into the education business. Perhaps Intelligence is teaching us that we need to pay more attention to how we are treating the planet, and less attention to our punishing homosexuals.
Either way, as I write this the news is predicting IRMA to hit South Florida with a force greater than HARVEY. May our combined consciousness assist the consciousness that is in the path. May we care more about assisting with their safety and their rescue, than wasting time assuming who might be to blame.
As you were,
Jay
Good joob
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