God

I have a problem with emails that pick a few incidents out of the millions that occur each moment and use them to further their own narrow minded ideas of God.

I like to believe that God could never be defined by the limited understanding of human beings.

The idea that God, like some egotistical raging pontiff would point a finger at an errant child and zap him off the earth seems ridiculously ignorant to me.

Choosing to believe in God, for me, is not choosing to believe in some abusive, narcissistic, ego driven entity who sits up above me issuing commands just to see if I can be tripped up and punished.

In every large family there are always a few children who feel the need to garner their parent’s attention by finding fault in the others. In a position of power and authority, these are truly frightening creatures.

I want to believe that no rational person, having given some thought to these things, could stand by and promote intolerance and hate, because intolerance and hate are just that, no matter how they are justified and they have no place in a sentence defining the name of God.