In God's name

I see so much Muslim bashing on Facebook. I grew up hearing people blame the Jews for almost anything and everything. It's strange, but I seldom hear about all the bad things Christians do, from burning people at the stake, to The Crusades, to burning books, or killing people at abortion clinics and so on.

Evil done in the name of god always seems to feel justifiable to the person doing it.

It gives religion a bad name.

Imagine god creating all this beauty simply so he could have it destroyed in his name. It would be like Van Gogh wanting people to take knives to his pictures, or Monet wanting people to submerge his water lilies in the backyard pool.

All these angry invocations that are supposedly attributed to a power so great it created us seem a little short sighted and petty. Any two year old throwing a temper tantrum thinks his daddy would do the same thing if someone took away his toy.

If people want to invent god in their own image that god will be very flawed and limited, because most of us cannot possibly discern this power we call God.