Lousy God

Posted on June 8, 2019 by mitchteemley

backfatgirl_largewide“You are God!” a Hindu friend told me. “Sorry,” I replied, “but I could never respect a religion with such low standards.”

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22 Responses to Lousy God

  2. insanitybytes22 says:
    June 8, 2019 at 12:38 pm

    LOL! Right???! 🙂

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  3. whisperingleavesblog says:
    June 8, 2019 at 12:41 pm

    I lean on the everlasting arms everyday. I know they are not mine.. 😂

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  4. lloydslensphotographyllc says:
    June 8, 2019 at 3:39 pm

    I was going to comment about wondering where the Idea that man is God started. But I remembered an incident that was written about one of my ancestors & a “so-called teacher” as they sat down under a particular tree for lunch.

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  5. seekingdivineperspective says:
    June 8, 2019 at 8:38 pm

    Nope, I wouldn’t settle for me as God. Or Shirley MacLaine.

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  6. anitashope says:
    June 8, 2019 at 9:21 pm

    What awesome truth and chuckle.

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  8. playonfrontfoot says:
    June 9, 2019 at 1:31 am

    Well maybe she did not want to be the odd one out or she was like anybody else trying to shirk from assuming greater responsibility.😊

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  9. Sonrisa says:
    June 9, 2019 at 1:54 am

    Love it !😃

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  11. Jean-Jacques @ Gypsy Café says:
    June 9, 2019 at 4:41 pm

    Perhaps he meant you have godliness inside of you, because you are a product of God – as we all are. And so we are all little pieces of God, being God’s children 🙂

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    • mitchteemley says:
      June 9, 2019 at 5:14 pm

      I would agree that we are all God’s children, Jean-Jacques (although many are alienated from him). But the phrase “little pieces of God” would seem to imply that God is an impersonal force of which everyone and everything is a part (pantheism), rendering the term children of God meaningless.

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      • Jean-Jacques @ Gypsy Café says:
        June 9, 2019 at 9:12 pm

        Mitch, thank you for your reply. I’m from a Christian upbringing, so I know what you mean. I think that we can be both children of God and be tools of God, meaning that we are worthy enough to carry God’s light – meaning that God can shine his light through us if we are open to it and if we are sufficiently developed on a spiritual level. That does not mean we ‘become God’, but we can become consciousness co-creators in the sense that we are inspired and influenced by God to do his work and allow him to channel his spirit through us.

        Maybe my expression “pieces of God” was not so well expressed. I wrote an article in recently going into more details and I just use different terminology to more or less arrive at the same place . I do realise though that it may not fit the traditional Christian belief of our relationship with God, so respect your point of view. Anyway, perhaps there’s something in there that could resonate:
        http://gypsycafe.org/2019/05/03/the-keys-to-conscious-co-creation/

        Best wishes,
        Jean-Jacques

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      • mitchteemley says:
        June 10, 2019 at 11:33 am

        Thanks for your kind and respectful response, Jean-Jacques. Although there are overlaps in our beliefs, we do indeed believe different things regarding the character of God and the nature of humanity. So much of modern “spirituality” pays lip service to God as the source or force from which we spring, but is about self rather than God. Christianity is inexorably about God: “This is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent” (John 17:3). “Eternal life” in the Greek means not just everlasting life, but the true purpose or essence of life. Blessings, my friend.

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  12. Ann Coleman says:
    June 9, 2019 at 11:04 pm

    Ha! I feel the same way! (About me, I mean… not you!)

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  13. pick1solution says:
    June 9, 2019 at 11:54 pm

    Sometimes you have to just stand up and state you peace. Great response.

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  15. Michael E. Lynch says:
    June 10, 2019 at 11:48 am

    Trust me, people: only a fool would want ME to be God, and I don’t want the job. I’ll leave it to the only One who is qualified.

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  17. Lileana Oreiro says:
    June 14, 2019 at 1:20 pm

    AGREE!!

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  18. saurabose says:
    July 26, 2019 at 3:48 pm

    The fact is not stuck at religion. I believe it depends upon the person who is referring to whom. The concept of God isn’t limited to just a mere person in Hindu Religion but rather much broader than we seem to perceive. Hinduism even tells to treat the guests as Gods, and all that can be learnt from it is perhaps the values it is trying to inculcate rather than considering it as a low standard thing.

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