God is not your bitch, by Mark Morford

[madokie]

This just in: It is hugely unlikely God cares much about your sex life
By Mark Morford

You know what God loves? Meddling. Meddling and poking and adjusting and maybe, just maybe, forgiving. Sometimes.

OK wait. What God really loves is meddling and poking and maybe forgiving, and also psychoanalyzing and scrutinizing and prying, gossiping and complaining and moderating, sighing and punishing and condemning, all while He shakes His big, shaggy head in your general direction at your various petty sins and misbehaviors every single day regarding pretty much every single thought you have.

Did you know this about God? Of course you did.

After all, if much of organized religion and nearly every conservative/fundamentalist adherent thereof are to be believed -- and they most definitely are not -- God is essentially the most obsessed, niggling micromanager of all time. He is all about being hugely, nay downright obscenely interested in the trivial minutiae of modern life, from the food eaten on a particular day to the touchdown made during the Big Game to the brand of TV you watch it on, right on over to what book you're reading and where you live and if you have the right guns and foreign policy and facial hair, and of course whether or not you judge gay people and demean women and nonbelievers in just the right way. ...

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(Full URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/07/24/notes072409.DTL&nl=fix)

[tularetom]

1. Apparently God is a lot like Santa Claus

He sees you when you're sleeping
He knows when you're awake
He knows if you've been bad or good
So be good for goodness sake!

[SpiralHawk]

2. Actually, I think God is probably French

...since I understand he is totally for peace, and likes cheese.

No wonder the Republicon Homelander Pharisees can't get with the program.

[rurallib]

3. If Santa Claus didn't exist, we'd have to invent him.

[izquierdista]

4. Jesus is always watching

Pastor Deacon Fred has some good things to say about this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c9ppDdotbU

[sinkingfeeling]

5. 'God is essentially the most obsessed, niggling micromanager of all time.' !! I love you, Mark!!

[Wednesdays]

6. K&R

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