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God
By:
F.W. Shannon
For Tami
God: Shoot.
With that, God leaned back in his lawn chair, far enough
to reach the ice-filled cooler to his immediate left and
slightly behind him. When he drew his hand out, he held
a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. Water and small bits of
ice clung to the outside, dripping on his lap as he
cracked open the pop-top.
God: You thought my son was the only one that did the
whole 'water to wine' thing ... I prefer beer ... Next
question!
Dogma
How Much Of The Bible Should We Believe?
Omnipotent
Me: I guess the next question would have to be, are you
omnipotent? Are you everywhere and do you know
everything?
But back to the test … So, the scores were logged and then
the kids were brought back into the room by those
proctoring the test. They were each shown an empty chair in
the room and told there was a ghost in the room who sat in
that chair and watched everything that went on in the room
and then reported back to the proctor. The ghost was
invisible and only sat in the chair when they felt like it … The
ghost could be anywhere in the room but was always
watching and reported everything to the proctor afterward.
Then they were each left in the room to complete the test a
second time. Some walked over to the chair and examined it
to see if they could detect the presence of the ghost. Some
spoke to the ghost as if to try and debunk its presence. All
had some level of doubt. But all also performed the test the
second time without cheating in any way. THAT is your
nature. Always has been. Always will be. So whether I’m
omnipotent or not is again, a moot point. The point is, the
thought that I am always watching and know everything that
you do and think, makes it a bit more likely that you’ll follow
the rules than if you were positive I wasn’t around.
On Evolution
Me: And what about their sons, Cain and Able? Was that
another illustration? Or did the murder really occur?
Me: But it clearly says in Genesis that Adam and Eve were the
first …
God: Really? You buy into that whole ‘The devil made me do
it’ bit? Oooooh, I think it’s time to start a new chapter. This
one is gonna take a bit to iron out … Go ahead … Scroll down
to a new page and start with a new heading … Do it.
Chapter 6
The Devil
Does He Exist?
Me: How can that be? Lucifer … The Devil … Same thing as far
as I know. That’s what pretty much every Christian I’ve ever
known thinks. Are you telling me we’re all wrong? Was there
another fallen angel we don’t know about?
God: The ‘devil’ to which I refer, lives inside each and every
one of you. And you cultivate that devil when you choose to
ignore your conscience … Drop the ‘d’ and capitalize the ‘e’ …
Get it? … See … When people train their heart and mind to
ignore their conscience, they become nothing more than
animals. And over time, they become capable of horrible
transgressions and acts of evil. And in the distant past, when
faced with the knowledge of the extreme evil those people
could do, it was just easier to manufacture the mindset that
it wasn’t a human being who was responsible for such evil. It
was easier to sleep at night if people thought that those who
could perpetrate such evil were under the control of ‘The
Devil’. In time, the whole ‘the devil made me do it’ concept
spread to even minor acts of misbehavior. It’s always easier
to blame misdeeds on some outside influence than to just
realize the person who did it, did so by choice. Even with
Lucifer and The Fiery Pit as an additional deterrent, some
people just soldier on, doing evil as they wade deeper and
deeper into an evil existence.
Reincarnation
Me: Yes. But what does that have to do with the expansion of
the universe?
Me: Oh my God.
Aliens
God: Yes.
God: Of course not. The pause was for dramatic effect … I’m
often amazed at people who don’t believe there is life on
other planets. Oh sure … A few hundred years ago I could see
it. People had no idea how vast the universe was and that
made it acceptable to think the dynamic that allowed life to
exist on earth was a singularity. But with the absolute
knowledge of the fact that there are trillions of other planets
out there, anyone who doesn’t think the odds are
overwhelming that other life exists, is just being arrogant or
ignorant. And the Christians who deny the possibility of
extraterrestrial life are presuming to put limits on my abilities
… Or they’re just plain being intentionally closed-minded. See
… The universe is filled up with things mankind cannot, nor
will they ever, see or visit. None of that stuff has any effect
on the existence of earth. So why would I bother to create all
of those things out there? It stands to reason that I didn’t
create them for mankind to enjoy or explore. If I had made
things for that purpose, I’d have stopped creating things once
the distance from earth was too great for mankind to ever
see them. That’s the logic end of that argument.
Don’t get me wrong … I realize all of these things are just part
of being human. Your psychology gets in the way of your
actual thinking. All humans have a psychological aspect that
influences them whether they choose to acknowledge it or
not. There are those who are able to see that in themselves
and that makes them better thinkers. It doesn’t make them
better people … Just better at setting aside their
psychological proclivities to avoid having them interfere with
their logical processes.
God: NO, no, no … I’d never allow that. They come here
hunting things rather than people. And some of them have
grown partial to beef, pork and venison. Loooong ago, some
were fans of dinosaur meat. That actually worked out quite
well for human-kind in general. Once the dinos were hunted
to near extinction it made it a lot easier for humans to ascend
to the top of the proverbial food chain. Imagine what life
here would be like if you still had to worry about a T Rex
eating you for a snack while you were out for a morning jog.
And, as I said, it’s not just hunters. There are tourists and
science types who come here too. They tend to just hang out
and observe. Most go to great lengths to remain undetected
and unseen, leaving behind no trace of their having been
here. Others, however, could care less since they view
humans as they are on earth, as beneath them and unable to
comprehend that they are even being visited, much as you
would stand over an anthill and imagine they are oblivious to
your presence. So now and then, they are seen. Sometimes
their craft are seen and even filmed. I kind of like it because it
at the very least causes those who refuse to believe there is
other life out there, to have a second thought about their
point of view. Aaaaand let us not forget the rednecks …
And last, but certainly not least, are those who come from
civilizations so advanced that they can’t fathom why on earth
humans are trying to see them. They come to visit and
observe and are taken aback by the idea that humans are out
looking for them. I mean … Imagine going out bird watching
and finding that the birds have binoculars and are trying to
get a better look at you.
God: You’ll need to start a new chapter for the answer to this
one …
Chapter 10
The Nephilim
God: The whole thing about giants and some of the heroes
from human history, is extremely complicated. It began
almost at the beginning of humans as you now exist … Homo
sapiens as you have classified yourselves in your own books
of science …
Me: But I thought you created them just like you created
everything else.
But … That being said, you also have to realize I don’t have
complete control over everything they do or say. They are,
after all, eternal and not my creation. So …
Just like it says in Genesis, ‘the angels looked down upon the
daughters of man and found them beautiful … and the angels
descended to the earth and took them as wives and did have
intercourse with them … and their children were heroes and
giants in the land in those days …’ But there is so much more
to it than that. Again … I’m surprised no one has made
certain connections that are pretty obvious just by what is
written in your bible.
Me: So what about the Greek gods and Roman gods and the
like? Were they Nephilim too?
God: Some yes. Some no. Apollo and Zeus were angels who
decided to take an active role in human development.
Hercules and Sampson were Nephilim though. As far as the
abilities of the angels, they can do pretty much anything
except create things … like turn existing matter into
something else made of matter … Not even I can create
matter. We went over that already … Basic law of the
universe. But I can gather matter at will and turn it into
anything I can picture in my head.
Me: Were you mad at the people who worshiped the Greek
and Roman gods?
God: No. Why wouldn’t they? They had divine evidence right
there in front of them. It would have been ridiculous to
expect them to reject that kind of proof. Like I said before,
whatever gets the job done. I’m not looking for a pat on the
back every time a human being does something good due to
their belief system. What’s important is that they did
something good.
Gay Marriage
With that, the man who called himself God leaned back and
grabbed another Pabst Blue Ribbon as it seemed to appear
out of thin air, just above the cubes of clear ice in the cooler.
He removed his ball cap with his free hand and dragged his
forearm across his forehead as if to wipe away sweat. He was
however not sweating despite the fact that the apartment
had grown uncomfortably warm. I was sweating for sure and
quite thirsty. But asking ‘God’ to make another beer appear
for me just felt like bad form. But as that thought passed
through my head, ‘God’ leaned back a second time and when
he leaned forward again, he had an ice cold Corona Extra
beer in his fist. I only drink Corona beer. There is no way he
could have known that. I had the sudden urge to go over and
look in the cooler to see what exactly he had in there besides
ice. But the feeling subsided quickly as he handed me the
beer and said, “I’m glad you drink beer … I’m glad you
decided to become a reporter … and I’m proud of the
courage you’re showing by doing this interview.”
As I took the Corona from his hand, a feeling of … warmth,
for lack of a better word … swept over me. ‘God’ and I sat in
silence for a few long minutes, sipping from our respective
beers, making subtle sounds of satisfaction with each tip of
our vessels.
Chapter 12
God’s Purpose
Why Am I Here?
God: Certainly. But I have to warn you … You may not like
some of what I have to say.
God: Yes and no. The balancing occurs locally first. It’s
proximity-based. Once enough good is done here to balance
out the forces on this planet, the excess positive energy
travels outward to other places that need to be balanced. So
in essence, the good you do here will improve the balance
here before it is used elsewhere. It adheres to yet another
law of physics which is that all things travel from a greater to
a lesser concentration. That means that the positive energy
cancels out the nearest negative energy it encounters once it
is created. But bear in mind … This also works the other way
around. And evil you do, immediately goes to work canceling
out the nearest positive energy it encounters. Hence the
saying ‘Evil only begets more evil’ … I you pollute your
surroundings with negative energy, you block cancel out any
positive energy near you and thus create an ever-broadening
radius of negativity around you and those close to you. That’s
how mobs are formed and riots start. And it’s kind of like
bringing a piece of hell to earth. When they say ‘War is hell’
they are closer to the actual truth than many might realize.
Me: But how does that work when large gatherings of people
doing good or being good have horrible things happen to
them? I mean … There are people shot in churches and mass
killings in schools … Families on happy vacations together
dying in horrible car crashes on their way to Disneyland. I fail
to see how this principle applies across the board. Things like
that have to be exceptions to the rule, right?
God: No. Not at all. You have to realize that these … clouds of
positive or negative energy for lack of a better term … lack a
conscience. They act indiscriminately in their quest for
balance. The church may simply be in an area where so much
other evil is occurring in the surrounding neighborhood that
the negative energy causes horrible things to happen there
simply because that was the nearest positive energy the
negative energy encountered. The family on the highway
may have been loving and happy, but the drivers in the
multitude of surrounding cars and trucks may have been
seething with negativity. The same goes for any bad thing
that happens to good people. I hear constantly how people
‘just can’t believe God would let such a horrible thing happen
to such a good person’ … We need to get this straight … I
don’t let things happen. On rare occasion I do make things
happen. But nothing happens simply because I didn’t prevent
it from happening. You have the angels here doing their
thing. But even they can only do so much to offset the
balance and only for so long. The struggle for balance is
never-ending and will only allow an imbalance to remain for
a very short time. I don’t give people cancer. As a matter of
fact, people’s bodies produce cancer cells every single day …
That’s every body. But occasionally a person with a genetic
pre-disposition to cancer, will have a specific chemical
exchange in their body that triggers an unchecked growth of
cells and the cancerous cells take hold and begin to grow
masses or worse, spread throughout their body and then
grow multiple masses. It’s not a matter of good or evil, god or
bad, positive or negative energy at play or that anyone has
done anything to deserve cancer. It’s human physiology.
Cancer isn’t a character inditement. It’s a disease.
God: In some cases it does. But more often than not, no. If
something like that happens to a good person, you can count
on one of two things … Either it is simply that they were
genetically predisposed to that illness … or they’re not really
a good person. Bottom line, I don’t let bad things happen.
They happen independent of me. I’m God. I do only good.
Chapter 13
Questions
God: Sure thing. But for starters I’ll skim through and weed
out the ones that can be answered with something short and
simple. The more complicated ones will have to be covered
in more depth. Some may need their own respective
chapters. You okay with that? You’re the one who has to do
all the typing.
Me: If that’s what you want to do, I’m on board. Here they
are.
Why am I here?
Why can’t I find a job? You can. You just can’t find one you
want.
How can I please you? Be good … Literally … That’s all it
takes.
Why is it that all the evidence points to you and all other gods
not existing? It doesn’t. There is no such thing as evidence
pointing to something not existing. There can only be
evidence that something exists or a lack thereof. But if you
need evidence that I exist, let me lay some science on you …
We’ll start with something simple … At any given moment
across the planet, there are any number of influences at
work changing the oxygen concentration in the air … Forest
fires, volcanoes, millions of cars and trucks running, 7 billion
people breathing in and out, trillions of plants and animals
taking in or producing carbon dioxide and oxygen, decaying
plant matter in the ocean that covers three quarters of the
planet … Yet the oxygen concentration in the air stays
between eighteen point five and twenty-two percent …
always … And that happens to be the exact band of oxygen
content required to support human life. If I gave you a box
that was forty feet cubed and all the bottled gas and
regulators you wanted, without a serious computer and
mechanical assistance, you couldn’t even come close to
holding the oxygen content in that box within those tight
tolerances. Nature, which I created, does that for the whole
planet, all day, every day … Better yet, take a look at a
common bird … A sparrow. Now … It’s made up of the same
elements as the rest of the stuff in the universe. But those
elements come together in a very specific combination which
makes a sparrow. Now … The odds of such a combination
occurring randomly are about a thousand trillion to one.
Then add the odds of everything else in the universe that is
alive happening in a random combination of those same
elements. Then add the odds of grass and trees and stars and
bananas and water all being random combinations or the
elements. The odds are staggering against it being possible.
But simply ad in an intelligent intent … me directing and
designing those combinations, and all of a sudden the laws of
statistical probability improve a billion fold. So literally, on a
purely scientific basis, my existence is a billion time more
likely that the odds that I don’t exist … It cracks me up when
people try to use science to disprove my existence when in
fact that very same science proves I do exist.
Is the earth only about six thousand years old? No. The earth
is roughly four point three billion years old. That’s if you go
all the way back to the moment matter began to gather
together to form what would eventually become this planet.
As for how long mankind has been on earth, you have to first
take into account that there are cultures with written records
that go back far longer than six thousand years. And as
recently as last week, archeologists uncovered fossil evidence
of human remains in a location alongside the charred
remains of a fire pit or campfire. The site dated back six
hundred thousand years. You also have to take into account
that, as I stated earlier, only about two to five percent of
what dies becomes fossilized and only a tiny amount of those
fossils have been uncovered to date. Your knowledge of the
history of mankind on earth will never be much more than a
scratch on the surface of the sum of human history.
Cults
God: Oh that kind of thing has been going on since the first
time mankind decided to look for divine direction from one
of their own kind. The fact of the matter is that you can never
find me in another human being. I am in each and every one
of you already. The search has to be inward.
Me: There are many who believe you frown on divorce. Some
even claim that their religion forbids divorce. What is the
truth about divorce?
“The Operation”
Me: That subject got really heavy, really quickly. I’d like to
move on to something less grim … What are your feelings
about people who get sex change operations … The whole
transgender thing?
I made each of you the way you were supposed to be. I made
no mistakes. All this horse shit about people being born
trapped in the body of the opposite gender really chaps my
ass. It’s the same as my take on the whole ‘born gay’ tack.
You are all born exactly the way you are supposed to be born
… Boy, girl, black, white, brown, poor, rich … You name it,
that’s what was meant to be your lot. Now what you do with
that lot is up to you, but only to a certain extent. Gender isn’t
negotiable. Neither is the color of your skin. You can go from
poor to rich or rich to poor. You can make a weak body
strong by lifting weights and eating right. You can change
your name six ways to Sunday and it won’t change who you
are. But when you go to a surgeon and have your junk cut off
or turned inside out or have parts added to your genetalia
that make you appear to be the opposite gender, and start
eating hormone pills like tic tacs and getting injections, you
are second-guessing me … I don’t like that.
Now I know there are people out there who are so unhappy
with their lives that they are willing to do just about anything
to change it. I know there are people who have psychological
issues who do things for irrational reasons. I know there are
people born with hormonal imbalances that cause their brain
to tell them they are something their physiology isn’t. Those
issues need to be addressed, not given in to.
Me: For a long time there has been an issue here in America
with illegal immigration. Do you have a stance on the
subject?
God: Nope … That one is for mankind to nail down. When all
of you realize you are brothers and sisters, maybe you’ll start
acting like a family … And then I might just spill the beans.
But as things stand now, even if you knew who they were
and where they lived and what they had for breakfast this
morning, half of you would give in to your selfish desires and
join up with them to fight the other half. You’re just not
ready.
Chapter 18
The Way
God: I’ve heard this question so many times and I’m amazed
at the amount of confusion that particular piece of scripture
has caused. First off, Jesus died for all of you, present past
and future generations … everyone. Not just Christians.
Technically, there were no Christians at the time of his
crucifixion. Every single one of you is born with that Grace.
You didn’t have to anything to earn it nor can you do
anything to earn it. It’s yours for free the moment you are
born. It doesn’t matter if you are born into a culture that
recognizes Jesus or not. If people would use just a little
common sense they would know that I could never slant the
proverbial playing field in that manner considering you are all
my children. Would you, as a parent, have in your possession
a medication that would cure your children of any ailment,
but withhold it from some of them while giving it to others?
Of course not. So for me to do the same thing in the context
of letting children be born into cultures that would, by their
very existence, damn that child’s soul to hell, would be
ridiculous and pointless and cruel. Jesus is the only way to
Heaven for Christians. And being a Christian by its very
definition means you’ve already qualified in that provision of
your salvation. In other cultures and religions, they have a set
of rules that govern their expected behavior to be in the
good graces of whatever deity they look to for their salvation.
And as long as they keep to those rules, they too go to
Heaven. And then there are people out there who, for
whatever reason, don’t subscribe to any religious ideology,
but they lead lives filled with charity, love and goodness
toward their fellow man. They simply listen to that tiny piece
of me that is inside them and act accordingly. In a lot of cases
they are more Christian-like than many actual Christians.
Why would I deny them access to Heaven? If someone is
kicked in the teeth so many times during their life on earth
that they stop believing in me, but they don’t allow that to
change them and they continue on to live a good life and
continue to be true to their conscience and exhibit the
qualities of a Christian without the label, in many ways they
are more in keeping with what gets people into heaven than
so many others who think that their association with a
religious organization is what gets them in. To be good
without believing in an organized system that demands
goodness is good just the same. Only it’s good for goodness
sake instead of for fear of being caught and punished. And
don’t forget all of the billions of people who were born, lived
and died long before Jesus came. Do you really think all of
those people were sent to the lake of fire because they didn’t
know a Jesus who didn’t yet exist?
Far too many people wield the bible like a sword. They use
what they read in it to exclude and persecute anyone who
doesn’t agree with them. They call on me to smite whole
countries and races. They dig through the bible, pouring over
page after page of pure love, searching for a reason to hate …
Looking for a lofty perch from which to judge the rest of
humanity. That book is meant for anyone who has a desire
to, to crack it open and let it speak to their heart. It does not
imbue the reader with any power over anyone else nor does
it mean the same thing to everyone who reads it. No one has
the power to interpret a single word of it to the masses and
claim that their interpretation is the way everyone is
supposed to abide by it.
Chapter 19
God: There are so many factors that come into play on this
one. It clearly states in the bible that Thou shalt not kill’ …
But that is a generalization. I also said an eye for an eye and
that if a man kills another man’s son, the son of that man’s
life shall be forfeit. It’s situational. I mean … If a man has
killed another man in cold blood for no good reason and he is
caught dead to rights, tried in a court of law and found guilty,
I am all for that man being put to death. He’s going to be
judged for his sin. If the process of getting him to that
judgment is accelerated, it’s no skin off my nose. Putting
people to death for minor crimes is just a form of cruelty
used by countries and cultures that still treat each other like
animals while acting like animals themselves. Anything they
do should be discounted when looking at legal processes that
are carried out by civilized cultures.
Me: But the statistics say that about ten percent of people
who are given the death penalty are actually innocent.
God: No. Only the people who are behind the war … Only the
people who start it and profit from having done so. I’ve never
sanctioned any war. All I’ve ever done is anguish at the
presence of such barbarism among my children. The horror
of watching brothers and sisters slaughter one another day in
and day out is more than I can bear to watch. I have to turn
my eyes away from it and set my mind on other things in the
universe for great spans of time because I simply can’t bear
to see it. There are times I actually look forward to the end of
earth as you know it because of such things. I know that in
the end good will win out over evil. But watching the process
is so heart-wrenching. The only thing that keeps me from
taking away free will altogether when I see such barbaric
behavior is knowing the human potential for growth. If I
thought you, as a species, would never grow out of your
need to wage war, I’d have turned this whole planet to ash
eons ago. The potential I see every day in lovers and poets
and artists and mothers and fathers and children … every
time I see a glimpse of altruism … every time I see kindness
or forgiveness or reconciliation or self-sacrifice … It makes
me able to resist taking back the promise I made to Noah
after the flood.
Chapter 20
Global Warming
Really?
Nuclear Power
But nuclear power is your current best bet for cheap, clean
electricity. The regulations are so strict on waste disposal and
the carbon footprint is practically nonexistent. The accidents
from the past have caused the operators of nuclear plants to
learn from their mistakes. The media has, however, made a
field day of fear-mongering with each accident. Three Mile
Island was called a ‘nuclear disaster’ when the amount of
radiation released in total was the same as a single chest x-
ray at the doctor’s office. Other accidents that have
happened outside the United States have been much worse,
but occurred mostly because of an utter lack of regulatory
control of their operation of those plants. Fukushima was a
perfect storm scenario. An earthquake and a tidal wave all at
the same time. But even that could have turned out much
better if someone had simply pushed a button and switched
the electrically driven cooling water pumps over to the steam
driven cooling water pumps. If there was anything they had
plenty of at Fukushima, it was steam.
God: Yes … But I’m not sure mankind is ready for it.
The same goes for curing cancer and the like. A big chunk of
the economy is tied to illness … Treatment, pharmaceutical
companies, hospitals etc. … If someone came up with a pill
that cured all disease, there would be a lot of people looking
for a job tomorrow. You’d have doctors lined up for jobs
digging ditches and flipping burgers. Illness is a business. And
until the parts of the world economy that are tied to illness
and oil and gas are fitted to some other source of profit, it
will remain a business and the proverbial right thing will be
intentionally passed over when decisions are made.
Chapter 22
The bottom line is, think before you believe, regardless of the
source of the information. If you read it in the bible and it
makes zero sense, look into it and see if perhaps you have a
badly translated bible or if it is a bible from a religion you are
not familiar with or something along those lines. And if it is a
‘correct’ bible, and it makes zero sense to you, it either
doesn’t apply to you or it’s just plain dogma. Remember the
book speaks to the heart of the individual. Some of it is
meant for you and some it isn’t. And unfortunately, some of
it is dogma. So many ‘chefs’ have had their fingers in that pie
over the centuries, there are just parts of it you shouldn’t
eat.
Chapter 23
Witchcraft
God: There are a lot of facets to the Wiccan and pagan belief
systems … Some I agree with conditionally … Others I
disagree with whole-heartedly. The fact that many of them
are of a mind that the earth needs to be respected and
nature protected. That’s all well and good. But to believe that
they can derive some sort of magical power out of
communing with the earth is just silly.
The people who still commune with nature also get the
benefit of being healthier on average because of the fact that
being in contact with the environment in which your species
evolved in is just plain old good for your physiology. But to
think that you can throw a handful of herbs and berries into a
stew pot and cast a spell that has any influence on the world
or anyone in it is ridiculous. Granted … If you cast a spell on
someone who believes strongly enough in what you’ve done
and they are aware you’ve done it, they can make the
contents of said spell occur through the power of suggestion
and psychosomatic symptom expression. People can, in some
instances. Will themselves to be stricken with pretty much
anything if they believe strongly enough.
The pagan end of the whole thing … And many Wiccans are
also pagan by choice … is just a matter of refusal to exhibit
any form of self-control. They do whatever pops into their
head. They have orgies at will. They steal or lie or sometimes
even kill with impunity and claim it’s okay due to their belief
in paganism. It’s just crap. Heck … I could just as easily crank
up a new ideology about people in that sect being allowed to
take any money they see regardless of who it belongs to, and
call it monetarianism. Or a sect who eats nothing but Hostess
snack cakes and call it Twinkieism … It’s just that silly. The
basis for Paganism goes back eons. And in its origins, it was a
bit more of an ideology of substance. The Druids had a
decent thing going on, although some of their practices were
once again steeped in the personal agendas of their
leadership.
God: Think about what you just said … See into the future?
By even saying that, you’ve thrown free will out the
proverbial window. There is no future. The past is made up of
nothing more than people’s memories of events. The only
thing that actually exists is the here and now. The predictions
that pan out are just coincidence. If you predict enough
things are going to happen, eventually some of it will happen.
Even Nostradamus made so many predictions for the future
that at least some of his predictions were bound to come
true. The guy made a ridiculous number of predictions in his
time. Only a tiny percentage actually happened to date.
God: I’m getting to that … Okay … If you set your beer down
on the floor in front of us, you could imagine that is the
nucleus of a Hydrogen atom. It has one proton and one
neutron in it. Now … If the nucleus of the atom was the size
of a basketball, the valence ring that the single electron in
that atom travels in at near the speed of light, would have a
radius of about five miles. There is nothing in between
theoretically, except the incidental wandering x-ray or beta
particle. You were taught that there is no such thing as empty
space in sixth grade earth science. So …. What do you
imagine is in all of that empty space?
Me: I never looked at it that way.
God: Few do. But wait! There’s more. Now … The guys and
gals who are monkeying around with String Theory are
getting near the doorstep to this one. See … If matter were to
vibrate on a frequency other than that of discernable by the
senses you possess, it could occupy the same space as matter
on non-interfering frequencies without interacting in any
way. The matter on each vibrational frequency is oblivious to
the existence of the other matter present in the same space.
It’s just like all of the radio and cell phone signals floating
around in here that you can’t pick up with any of your five
senses. But if you had a television or cell phone, tuned to the
correct frequency, all of a sudden you would be able to see
or hear them. As for matter in this room that is on different
frequencies, there could be monkeys and spaceships and
water and fish just floating all over the place and we’d never
know it.
God: I’m not worried. And no, don’t omit anything I tell you.
That’s how the bible got in the mess it’s in right now. Besides
… You can hand loaded guns to people all day long. It doesn’t
mean they’re going to shoot anybody with them. I give things
to mankind daily … What you do with those things is a
measure of your character. I’m not responsible for that. Free
will … Remember? We’re right back to you giving your son a
baseball.
Uncle Sam
God: Yes … Those guys. I’d like to give you an analogy of what
I think about how governments generally work. Let’s put it in
the form of a nine one one call …
Me: But they run everything. They have authority over the
citizens.
In the end, you are all pulling the carriages while the horses
ride for free. I hope the right people read this book on this
subject as well. It’s about time you people shook things up in
your country. It’ll get uncomfortable. But then again, no one
makes any changes unless they get a little uncomfortable
with the way things are.
Me: I never knew God would have such strong political views.
What about the separation of church and state?
God: It’s okay David. I have been waiting for this one. It is a
very important question and I think it’s about time I
answered it …
I love you David … I love every single person who reads this
book and I love every single person who doesn’t. Not one
single life is more important than any other. Not one need is
any greater than any other. Not one cry in the night merits
any less compassion than any other. Not one hunger is more
justified than any other. You are all my children. I don’t make
junk. And in that vein, you are all brothers and sisters and
should act accordingly.
With that, he stood and walked out the door through which
I’d come, leaving me alone in the apartment. I wish I could
say he walked through a wall or that he simply vanished. But
he didn’t. He opened the door, walked through it and pulled
it shut behind him. He didn’t say goodbye or tip his hat.
The End