when you stub your toe - blame God
when you lose your job - blame God
when your girlfriend breaks up with you - blame God
when you're all alone - blame God
when your best friend gets raped - blame God
when your grandma dies - blame God
when millions are starving - blame God
when it rains on the day you were planning on camping - blame God
when your sports team loses - blame God
when countless contract aids - blame God
when the parking lot is full - blame God
when you hate yourself - blame God
when you fail that test - blame God
when you're hungover - blame God
when there's war - blame God
...but...
when you don't stub your toe - praise yourself
when you get a job - praise yourself
when you get a girlfriend - praise yourself
when you're surrounded by friends - praise yourself
when you're best friend does not get raped - praise yourself
when you're grandma's alive - praise yourself
when millions have food - praise yourself
when it's sunny on the day you were planning on camping - praise yourself
when your sports team wins - praise yourself
when countless have not contracted aids - praise yourself
when the parking lot is empty - praise yourself
when you're content with yourself - praise yourself
when you pass that test - praise yourself
when you're sober - praise yourself
when there's peace - praise yourself
4 comments:
If I did not know you, I would sometimes wonder whether you had any compassion at all. Perhaps that is a good thing, since compassion can sometimes steer us away from truth. It is, also, the only characteristic of humanity that is worthwhile.
I don't know why people feel the need to blame God when bad things happen to them. This has always confused me, and actually hints at a spiritual understanding of God that is limited to God caring specifically about you, as an individual. Or God caring at all.
If you can't be humble enough to allow bad things to happen, then you have no right to believe in something called God, who is, by definition, bigger than you. More powerful than you. More capable than you. And, apparently, has a bigger plan than you.
That being said, I spend a lot of time praising myself and my accomplishments. I have tried to praise God for some of these things in the past, but they don't seem like things that God would care about really. Getting a job? Getting a girlfriend? Passing a test?
I have always had a problem believing that God participates in a lot of things on this planet called Earth. I don't think he intrudes as much as people of faith want him to. He may deserve praise, he may deserve blame - but not for small things. And maybe not for big things, either.
I'm glad you do know me.
I apologize again (seeminly too often) for the apparent lack of compassion.
All things considered - terribly tragic things do happen and these pain me so.
My goal is to not to convince people that God is to be credited for you passing a test - but rather, to illuminate the tendency to blame God for the bad and to neglect to 'blame' God for the good.
You would make a great atheist. Outstanding!
I'm choosing to take that as a compliment, but we both know it's an insult at the same time.
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