Eating Fish

As I was driving back home after picking up my son from his grandmother after staying there for the weekend, I saw a huge white billboard with black letters stating “God is love” alongside the freeway. First thing that came to mind was ‘what a waste of money’, second was ‘No, he isn’t’.

I don’t get why Christians keep saying this because it is so absolutely not true. First of all, true love is UNCONDITIONAL. I love my kids… unconditionally. If they grow up to become assholes, stealing from the poor, I would not condone their actions, question my qualities as a parent, but I would still love them. God however, has very strict demands for his ‘children’.

First of all, you have to believe he exists. He does nothing to prove he does exist, yet forces us to believe he is real. If we don’t believe he exists, after we die we go to Hell.

Second you have to abide by his rules. He only has ten and every good Christian knows them very well, and breaks at least one rule every single day. Hell must be full of Christians and Heaven must be very empty. Christians of course have a loophole around the ten rules in the form of confession (Catholics) and repenting (most other Christians). Beg for mercy for ’sinning’ and God just might forgive you, and mostly he does, so your spot in Heaven is secured once more until the next round of sinning and saying ’sorry’ for it.

So basically God is love; he loves me. All I have to do is to believe in him, follow his rules, and he will fill my heart with joy. And I get to go to Heaven. If I don’t I will go Hell, where I will be tortured for eternity (which is a really really really long time), just to teach me a lesson.

Well, newsflash to all Christian evangelists; my heart is fine, and I think if God does exist, he is a complete psychopathic asshole who should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity by all the other deities. I’ve been told they’ve been fed up with Yahweh / God / Allah for a very long time now. And frankly; so am I.