As the Republican Presidential Primary heats up, so do God’s ears. It seems that many folks who want to be President in the GOP believe and announce that they have been chosen, urged or noogied by God to do so.

Also, such religiously-related issues as creationism, praying the gay away and solving America’s problems through prayer have come to the forefront through these candidates.

This has put God back in the political spotlight and being that He typically likes to keep a low profile (you can’t find any pictures of Him coming out of clubs on TMZ.com), He has responded to this by writing and passing along to us the following blog:

Let me begin by saying that I never tell anyone to run for political office, I never favor one sports team over another and if you win the lottery, I appreciate the thanks but it just makes 41 million other people tell me to “damn it”.

From where I sit (and when I sit around creation, I sit around creation), it’s a pretty good deal. When good things happen, I get a lot of props. When things don’t work out, it’s just because I’m working in mysterious ways. If this was baseball, I’d have a 1000 batting average whether I hit or struck out (though I never strike out…except in vengeance! Heh, just kidding!).

The truth is that I am not political, at least in the sense that I don’t support any parties or candidates (though I did fight a zoning law once to be able to create the Earth in a non-residential area). Politics are your universe to control,  it wouldn’t be a democracy if God was invisibly controlling it (or corporations for that matter).

What I find fascinating is that the people who often claim that I am the one they’re listening to when they choose to run for office…usually support issues that show they haven’t listened before to what I or my son have to say. You know, how hard it is for a rich man to get into heaven, do unto others as you would have them do unto you, turn the other cheek, blessed are the meek,  I could go on and on…but all they would hear is “You’re so attractive, if I was corporeal I would so hit that! And you’d make such an awesome President, the greatest ever! You simply HAVE to run! You have to!”.

So, just for the fun of it, allow me to indulge in a little game of logic:

a. If God told someone to run for office
b. And he/she only supports the wealthy instead of what’s best for most people
c. Then God does not support what’s best for most people.

Which leads me to this next one:

a. God is all good.
b. An entity that opposes what’s best for most people is not all good.
c. Whoever opposes what’s best for most people is not God.

Hmm…then if it’s not me who’s telling these people to run…who is it?

Now, I’m also aware that there are those who actually think, despite my and my son’s repeated explanations that money is the root of all evil and money changers create a den of thieves (not to mention derivatives), that wealth is a divine right of those chosen by me and all that they do in the pursuit of it is endorsed by Major League Deity.

The wealthy may be investing in manufacturing needles with camel-sized eyes but their trying to portray me as a proponent of greed is absurd. First of all, I have no pockets and I can’t get a bank account because I don’t have two forms of ID so what would I do with money?

Also, and please keep this just between us, but except for Earth, the rest of the universe is socialist. You need some matter or energy, you’re welcome to just go ahead and take it, free of charge. That would drive Wall Street crazy, can you imagine if we switched places and they were God? The universe would have stopped expanding a long time ago, a minority of the universe would have most of the gravity while 99% of the universe would have a fraction of its matter, helplessly trapped in a death spiral around that minority until it finally collapsed in on them and destroyed the whole system.

And then who’s everyone going to look to for a bail out, am I right?

Lastly, I’d like to set the record straight on one other thing. I don’t get mad at people for using the free will they were given so I don’t cause hurricanes or earthquakes to express my displeasure at state ballot propositions or people having sex. I mean, why don’t people see good things as a sign from me, how come it’s always awful things?

“Look, lots of people died in a natural disaster, that’s a sign from God!” It’s never, “Hey, it’s a beautiful day, that’s a sign from God!”. Hey, I’d settle for ice cream tasting good as a sign from me, dogs and cats being so cuddly, even McRibs coming back (…then again…).

Truth is, I would have to be pretty egotistical and selfish just to use all the people on Earth to play Rockem Sockem Robots with myself. What’s the point of people having free will if it’s merely for choosing not to use it?

There is an overall pattern to the story of humanity, I can’t give you any spoilers, it would ruin the surprises (like the cheeseburger meteor shower…oops, I’ve said too much). As much as it may seem like a dichotomy, it is the free will of people and the way they deal with the events that confront them that locks in their fate.

So to recap, I’m not picking Presidential candidates, approving of the greed of the wealthy or sending natural disasters as political messages (“I’m God and I approved this tsunami.”). Those that think any of the above know very little about me. They should read my book sometime, when they can tear themselves away from religiously watching Fox News.

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Weirdwriter
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Weirdwriter

Well, gosh, Almighty, OF COURSE you express yourself well — hello?

And I’m a big fan, which makes it a teensy awkward to point out that you misquoted yourself and your son.

It’s not “Money is the root of all evil.” It’s “The LOVE of money is the root of all kinds of evil.” (1 Timothy 6:10)

Of course, you just did that to see what we remembered from Sunday School…

choicelady
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Caught God out on that one! This was a test. You passed brilliantly.

Go to the head of the class. If there is a class – I’m not sure…God didn’t leave a post it saying where.

Mightywoof
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I have to say God has a wonderful turn of phrase – so many zingers I don’t know where to start!! If he ever runs for election his PAC has its first bumper sticker: I’m God and I approved this tsunami

Chernynkaya
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Dear God,

You were wondering whatever happened to that guy with the rainbow wig?

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AlphaBitch
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AlphaBitch

Rut-ro! I saw there were 69 comments posted. Being a good Christian woman, I can’t let that number stand….any more than the 666 tattooed on Dick Cheney’s forehead (which is why he has now lost his hair).

you’re welcome.

KillgoreTrout
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“God loves sex.

AlphaBitch
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AlphaBitch

And I was made in the image of God!

KillgoreTrout
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Lucky for us!

AlphaBitch
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AlphaBitch

Dear God! I read your message, and while I am ALWAYS glad to hear from you, I have to say I’m a little teeny tiny bit disappointed in that I had kinda sorta hoped that you were in fact burning up Texas with this insufferable drought, and sending Irene to hit some silly old Republican governors states, and that the earthquake had hit Cantor’s zone as a test of some sorts to see if you could bring them to their knees and make them admit that government IS useful. I mean, I’ve had 40+ days of 100F here, with a brief shower only once (yesterday for 10 minutes). Are you “zoning” me for my FUTURE home, because I had actually HOPED that these were happening as part of a grand lesson plan? I’d like to appear before the board if so.

Anyways, thanks for ice cream. Especially cookies and cream. (Note: I have also taken to eating frozen Oreos straight from the freezer – Yum!). Keep up the good work, and let me know what I can do (although I’m not quite as good with the natural disaster stuff).

Your pal, AlphaBitch

KillgoreTrout
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Tom Waits;

BlueStateMan
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My favorite description was Voltaire’s when he described God as being a “comedian playing to an audience that is too frightened to laugh”.

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KillgoreTrout
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Ha! That’s an excellent quote! God doth have a sense of humor! Just look at the Platypus.

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BlueStateMan
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How about NIPPLES on MEN????

KillgoreTrout
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Yeah, what’s that all about?

choicelady
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Free will. Self indulgence. Manzier.

Choices have consequences. God told you that. Did you listen? Noooooo.

KillgoreTrout
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Ha! I was wondering what was up with men having nipples! Since we don’t lactate, it is a bit of a mystery! A cosmic gag! 😉

Emerald1943
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About the same as brains in their cranial cavities??? 🙂 Just kidding, BSM!

KillgoreTrout
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Oh Snap! 😉

You have to remember that men have two heads and sometimes we get confused as to which one we should obey!

choicelady
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One has only to read children’s notes to God to know we don’t start out afraid. My fave is the kid who wrote, “Dear God, will you be in church on Sunday? If you are, I’ll show you my new shoes.”

We should all be so unafraid and connected to our higher power.

KillgoreTrout
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I’m not afraid. Really, I’m not. But then, I don’t believe in a supreme being of any sort. I’m not knocking that, but It just isn’t for me. Afterlife? I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it.

Emerald1943
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KT, I’m right there with you on that subject. What matters to me is how we treat our fellow man, not some mystical belief about a big dude in the sky! I don’t knock it for anyone else…each to his own.

KillgoreTrout
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There are people who take their religions seriously. My ex’s father is a devout Catholic and I mean devout. But he lives by the Beatitudes. He helps his neighbors, helps feed the elderly, which now he himself is 91 years old. He raised a family of 7 and they are all decent people. I think some people just need some sort of a guide to living. We are given the questionable “gift” of knowing we will someday die. And THAT scares the crap out of some folks. 😉

Emerald1943
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KT, I know what you mean about your father-in-law. My grandparents were not Catholic but they were the kind of Christian that LIVED their beliefs. They were religious but never tried to force their beliefs on everyone else, like the evangelicals do. They always tried to do good for others. I don’t think that either one of them was afraid to die. I treasure the time I had with them.

choicelady
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Probably isn’t one – and I bet if there were, he/she would NOT look like AdLib’s picture. I think most people think of God as a force – maybe collective human consciousness – rather than a man or woman. There just are not very good words to discuss God. “Dear Ether” kinda doesn’t cut it. So we hang onto tradition. It’s easier.

We don’t need God the Human Vision or Satan the other Human Vision to know there is good and evil – and humans alone are quite capable of either.

I think God continues to be a force simply to remind us to be joyous and thankful. Prayers are useful as a way of reminding us to take note of where we are, in good times and bad.

Non belief in a supreme being is not cynical or wrong. But one hopes that joy and gratitude are part of any human’s condition.

And the condemnation, exclusion, hate? Can do without that, thanks, whether or not there is a Supreme Being. It’s petty and nasty and not fully human. It’s not God who judges – it’s other people, and they’ve no right to decide who’s in and who’s out.

When we reach for a better sentiment – when we speak of “all God’s children being equal” it really exists as metaphor for “all humans are equal”, with or without a higher power.

Secular humanism was created not to be atheistic per se (that was included) but to find every single point of commonality among all the world’s beliefs and non-believers. Those principles bring us together in coherent work for the common good – and that is the manifestation of the best of whatever you believe, no matter how.

I find the sense of “other” powerful but not sure I believe in a supreme being so much as this life force of creative and thoughtful goodness in humanity. That is – until takeoff and landing at which point AdLib’s God looks VERY attractive! I want Him there holding up the plane, thanks! But that’s MY issue, not yours!

If there is a conscious “other” I can assure you it’s not the God form of the RW – there mere fact one could posit something way better than a cranky Santa Claus means their vision is all too human.

But we will probably never know, and it doesn’t matter anyway. The impulse toward making the world a vastly better place to live is, at the heart of the matter, what it’s all about. God or no God.

Emerald1943
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Oh excellent comment! I see spiritual evolution as our reason to be here. Some of us are further up on the rungs of the ladder; some are lower. We all hopefully will make the climb in our own time. Unfortunately, the RW with all their pompous self-righteous attitudes about the rest of us are so many rungs behind. Perhaps I should not make that judgement but they preach about what they think Jesus would do…and they act completely differently. Taking away food and aid to the poor is not what I remember from Sunday school!

KillgoreTrout
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I am of the same sentiment as Henry Thoreau who once said, on his deathbed, when asked by a visitor, “Henry, have you made your peace with God?”Henry answered, “”Why, we have never quarreled.

Emerald1943
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Hey KT!

Had to give you a “thumbs up” on that one!

Glad you’re back! 🙂

KillgoreTrout
Member

Yeah, that is one of my favorites!

choicelady
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Michael Harrington, the wonderful Democratic Socialist and calm atheist who did so much to being the “war on poverty’, died of leukemia. When asked in his last days if he was afraid he might face a last judgment, he said, “I’ve tried to live my life so that if I am wrong, I still have nothing to fear.”

Very cool.

BlueStateMan
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KillgoreTrout
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“HAHA! Excellent cartoon.

choicelady
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Cool!

Khirad
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Emerald1943
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Khirad, thanks! I needed a good laugh! Love Borowitz!

“All across the Eastern seaboard, there are men who get manicures, wear designer eyewear and know about thread counts,” Rev. Robertson. “God finds this somewhat gay-like behavior confusing, and He responded by getting mildly peeved.”

Thread counts!! Hilarious! 🙂

choicelady
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Oh like Pat doesn’t have 600-thread count luxury bed linens? The man lives for luxury! The fact he knows the TERM indicates he’s had the thought. Tsk tsk, Mr. R. By your own words you indict yourself.

Emerald1943
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Hey Choice! How are you feeling today? Better, I hope! Ear infections are certainly no fun!

choicelady
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Thanks, Em! It seems WORSE this morning, so I’m not happy. But I will slog on with the antibiotics and hope for the best. Sigh.

choicelady
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See? It’s NEVER about him! The hurricane has landed squarely on his Virginia Beach, VA headquarters – and does he think it’s a sign from God of God’s displeasure with him or Cantor or any of the extremists there? Nope. Can’t see the writing on the wall, Pat can’t.

All the hardships of drought, hurricane, earthquake are in Red strongholds. They’re pretty much only boils and frogs away from the Seven Plagues. But is it about their own actions and statements? Never!

Of course, I don’t believe God sends either wrath or signs, but since the RW does, it never ceases to amaze me that they ignore their OWN prophecies when it comes to themselves.

Even God can’t fix stupid.

Emerald1943
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Borowitz is hilarious! He nailed this one! 🙂

PatsyT
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Oh boy God, I sure am glad you check in from time to time.
I am so totally pissed off at these *%*holes that say they follow you.
They are so full of Sh*t!
Sorry for the rude language but these But*wipes make me very mad.
I read you book.
I liked it a lot!
You have great Ideas!
Why don’t they listen to them.
Who is controlling them?
Please Advise
http://gapolitico.com/2011/08/20/georgia-church-uses-obama-death-rhetoric/

Chernynkaya
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Since God seems to be on coffee break, Patsy, if I may let Woody Allen answer:

PatsyT
Member

Cher, God should have a break!
I mean even the lowliest heathen should be feeling fine
Cheney is still alive

KillgoreTrout
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I couldn’t agree more. This is one of the reasons I love woody Allen films. Religion should not become an occupation. I always find “spiritual leaders,” to be a bit untrustworthy!

kesmarn
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Dear God,

Thank you so much for giving us a sign.

You know, we humans are always a little hesitant about making decisions without those all-important signs.

This latest one was really genius.

You gave us an infallible sheep-goat sorting tool! We know we’re not supposed to vote for the goats, and now, thanks to you, we can spot ’em even when they try to wear sheep suits and claim that you’re giving them their marching orders.

All we have to do is look for the Crazy Eyes!

It’s easy. Watch:

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bito
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k’es, that last one is absolutely hilarious! 😆

kesmarn
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Glad you got a laugh, b’ito. They’re all in that weird zone that is The Land of Scary-Funny, aren’t they?

Caru
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Great post!

BTW, nice work on the Milky Way!

Kalima
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Dear God,

Thank you for each new morning, afternoon and night. I know that you would never get involved in politics, that’s just not your style. What these people don’t realise is that you can’t live their lives for them, you and your son have always supported the poor, and that your whole message through your son was to follow your example, not make up a whole new Bible to suit their needs. Won’t they be surprised when they are turned away from heaven’s gates because of the suffering they have caused so many on earth. You promised them nothing except the chance to be good and follow your lead, they have abused it every step of the way. You didn’t promise them wealth, you only promised them guidance if they truly believed in the goodness of your son. Do onto others as you would have others to do onto you. They didn’t. Their loss.

Btw, did you invent Karma, if you did, it was a brilliant idea. I’ve seen in in progress many times throughout my lifetimes. Kudos.

Emerald1943
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Kalima, I believe he told the Buddha about that (karma) and the Buddha did a great job of getting the word out! Anybody who doubts it should just wait a while…it’ll come!

KillgoreTrout
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One thing I love about Karma, is that it may be slow, but it is sure!

Dorothy Rissman
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Dorothy Rissman

Bravo, Adlib. A true treat to read.