God never kills the people you want him to. (Unless of course you have a standing request against the world’s poor). The truth of the matter is, God mostly just kills poor people. Seems like the good old days when God might take the time to kill a single person are over. Now, it’s like he’s just too bored with the process to pick someone out. Most days, he stays in bed, and then, to make up for the days he’s missed, wham, a tsunami or earthquake. His quota is met.
And it’s always the poor in foreign contries. A thousand people died in Katrina (notice how God picks out the poor, even in America) and we think it’s so bad. But when God goes to the Caribbean or Asia or Africa to kill, it’s tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands.
What does this mean? It means God hates poor people, although I guess you could argue that it means he loves them so much he wants them in heaven sooner (the dead baby theory). Usually though, the folks who think God loves the poor are citing the Beatitudes, those nice stories from the Sermon on the Mount, but those folks forget that Christ did not say, "Blessed are the poor," he said, "Blessed are the poor in spirit," which means, I suppose, the dejected, the despondent, the depressed, or those who simply have bad attitudes.
It also means, if you want someone killed (other that the world’s poor), you’re going to have to do it yourself.
I'm a devout atheist. Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that Mother Nature hates the poor?
ReplyDeleteGood question, Atheist in Athens. While I don't believe in God, neither do I see Nature as an active participant in the killing of the poor. My Marxist take on the whole thing is that those who have the money buy the land least likely to kill them, while those who lack said funds, are stuck with tornado alleys and earthquake faults in crappily built homes and trailer parks. Whoever is responsible, the poor get screwed.
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