Here’s a reality about growing closer to the Lord: He tends to have a negative effect on your social life. He’s jealous, possessive, and a wellspring of strange commands. Everyone else thinks it’s a great idea to go on a prayer walk through the neighborhood, and you’re the only one hearing God telling you to stop telling Him what to do in other people’s lives. Everyone else is helping out with VBS and God is telling you not to get involved. It’s not like He’s giving you some other holy activity to engage in that you can tell everyone about–He’s just telling you that He’s the Boss, and you’re to follow His orders. Stick close to God and it’s only a matter of time until He makes you look like a self-centered stick in the muck to everyone else.
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Is any of this supposed to be good? Is this supposed to advertize a relationship with the Lord? The only other time I've seen anything like this is in literature about recognising domestic abuse. Your abuser will isolate you, your abuser will separate you from your friends, your abuser is possessive, jealous, and will expect you to live on his terms. The only real difference is, at the end of the domestic violence pamphlet, there are phone numbers and website addresses to help the victim escape.
Edit: This is TheGoose. I just forgot to write it in.
@Loner
Are you prepared to be horrified? Well, here goes: is the professional help. This woman works as a religious counselor, meaning that people actually pay her good money for advice. It's a scary thought.
Sometimes in life, your husband will take a steel baseball bat to your face without warning. You might think this is cruel at first, but if you approach him with humility, you realize that you triggered it. Questions like "how was your day" and "dinner will be ready in half an hour" are a form of lipping off to him, and he has a right to respond by bashing your face in. God is much the same way. Our GodS will behave in violent manners frequently, and in our arrogance, we assume it is random. In reality, we lipped off to them when we didn't enunciate our vowels just right during prayer. So the next time your house burns down, remember that it is probably your fault.
- Anna Diehl
When one person talks to an imaginary friend, it's lunacy. When MANY people talk to an imaginary friend, it's religion. When that imaginary friend talks back, it's right back to lunacy. When that imaginary friend turns into an imaginary abusive boyfriend, it's Anna Diehl
The inhuman, soul-eating, conscience-searing, life-destroying demiurge you worship is a twisted reflection of your own fears and nightmares, and you alone give it form. It only exists in your own mind. An actual deity with the attributes you ascribe to it wouldn't be able to create a mud hut, let alone a universe.
Seek help. Please. And may whatever God or Gods exist take pity on any victims you've manage to convert.
Is there anything good, anything at all, about the god you worship? Is there any other reason to follow his dictates and give him worship, other than "if you do, I won't torture and kill you?"
..Does your god happen to be a JRPG final boss?
If so i just need to assemble a party of androgynous heroes with tragic backstories and get them to make a long speech about controlling our destinies and fighting against fate, and they'll defeat you in a few rounds of turn based combat.
@ Princess Serenity
I'll get in on that action. Every party of improbably young, hot-blooded, idealstic misfits with wildly implausible hairstyles needs a cynical "geezer" in their early thirties to have his hopes restored and watch quietly over the world he thought he was too late to change... then get pulled out of "retirement" repeatedly for comedic reasons.
@ Anon-e-moose
I don't know, isn't it kind of cheating to summon a bigger and meaner godlike entity to punch the one you're fighting in the soul? As far as the rest of the experience goes I swear, I have never beaten so much ass with a love song as my soundtrack and quite so wide a grin on my face.
One thing I always appreciate about dear Anna, her god is quite logically consistent. A fucking psychopath, but still, logically consistent.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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