Feckless

"I will fear no evil, for you are with me." --Psalm 23

God is everywhere. Yet he is non-corporeal--not made of atoms nor any form of energy we know of. Thus, bullets from AK47s and deadly shock waves and shrapnel from bomb blasts just go through him unimpeded and kill our children and teens and men and women instead.

Evil fears not a feckless god.

Planned

Over a hundred are dead in Paris after attacks in six separate sites.

This is what Pastor Rick Warren has to say: "God decided when you would be born and how long you would live. He planned the days of your life in advance, choosing the exact time of your birth and death." (The Purpose Driven Life, Zondervan, 2002, p.23)

In short, God masterminded the Paris murders and every fatal assault on every single person over the entire history of humanity. And every fatal disease, heart attack, stroke, car and plane crash--God's behind all those too.

"All-good" truly is a mystery.

Rights

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. 

Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty. 

Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. 

No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms. 

No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Is it any wonder why Yahweh will never be a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

Lesson

On my wishlist: Every time someone ecstatically exclaims "God is good!" she instantly finds herself transformed into a Yazidi girl being gang raped by her ISIS captors; or finds himself in Israel being incessantly stabbed by a Palestinian terrorist; or transported to a plane crash with both legs torn off, her children mangled and burned beyond recognition; or turned into a child, in rags, begging in the rain, with a belly that's not had a morsel for a day and a night; or a Syrian refugee, with his wife, children, and fellow citizens, being refused asylum in all European countries; or ....

With all the evil in the world and the suffering millions, how egregiously obscene and perverse it is to even suggest calling an omnipotent being good.

Egoist

You know someone's a self-centered prick when s/he publicly prays: "Thank you Lord for not letting the storm raze my home" instead of "Lord, why did you let the storm leave a third our of town homeless?"

Fooled

Belief in snake oil and prayer are so alike. You take grandma's remedy and the headache goes away; ergo, the nostrum works. You message the sky god and the winds die down; ergo, talking to yourself (or to the wind) works. Non causa pro causa. Post hoc ergo propter hoc.

Geez, can't we have it the other way around? Can't we have a majority familiar with logical fallacies and the tools of scientific skepticism and have just a handful of benighted fools?

Powerless

Don't know whether to love or hate the fact that humans are so predictable when it comes to perceived powerlessness over certain situations. The simple fact is that the probability of people resorting to superstitious behavior shoots up, say, during hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, and other natural phenomena over which they have absolutely no control over. I don't think we need to conduct a scientific study to say that the number of petitions to mythological characters skyrockets in times of natural disasters.