Saturday, December 17, 2011

Are you there world? It's me God

Blog event topic: God tells you to take over for a minute, do whatever you want but it must effect everyone. So short of following what I think God would want us to do which is bringing about something like peace and faith for all, I'd have some fun with it. I think I would 'immediacize' the consequences of sin, but for a short period, maybe 24 hours. When one sins, they lose grace and damage their relationship with God. As it says, the wages of sin is death, but each sin of course is not a mortal one. So Jimbob slaps his wife. The wages of sin is death, so proportionally, he is immediately punished by God(Us?) with whatever corresponding level of spiritual damage on a physical level. Maybe metaphysically kicked in the nuts. Fr. Mike checks out some internet porn, immediately loses ability to get boner. Little Jimmy hits his sister, little Jimmmy can't taste candy. I dunno something like that. At the end of the 24 hour period, I perform some miracle the whole world can see, (a la The Miracle of the Sun) but I put a message in everyone's head as it happens. Something about hi, I'm God, I'm real. This has been a taste of what happens when you sin. Remember that. That was my real-ish scenario, here's a fun one. I appear as a cosmic game show host in the sky with a big old wheel and host a one hour reality show program (I have cameras everywhere) that has eliminations (death, damnation), immunity (accession to heaven), and special challenges (tests of faith). At the end, I have a giant wheel of religions and I spin it. The world waits with baited breath to see what faith is correct. It lands (of course) on Catholics. 1 billion people are happy, the rest weep. Then God says but as a special bonus to those of you that lost, we're gonna fix the church up to make room in the pews for the rest of you. He then kills in hilarious ways all the pedo-priest and those who covered things up. If this involved the current pope, he appoints a new one, thanks you for watching, and returns us to regularly scheduled life.

4 comments:

  1. ERR! Sorry!

    The correct religion is the... Mormons. Yes, the Mormons.

    Sorry about that, but thanks for playing! You played a great game, hope you had fun! We do have a parting gift for you, of course. An eternity of hellfire, torture and gnashing of teeth.

    Thanks for watching, everybody! Remember, have your pets spayed or neutered. Good night!

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  2. Interesting ideas. So, I assume you think the world would be better off if it knew beyond a doubt that God exists?

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  3. Not sure Matt, not sure, but I think so. It's long been debated in Christian circles as to whether or not knowledge of God is better than not knowing God as it pertains to salvation.

    I do think a problem of total certitude eliminates free will to a degree that.

    Like I said, not sure.

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