Sunday Sermonette: Happy New Year

[bill_sheehan]

Here’s a poem by the brilliant Digital Cuttlefish, who can be found over in the Freethought Blogs. He called it,

Arguing God in the New York Times

We can’t disprove a God, you know,
Cos God can’t be defined.
The God you claim cannot exist
Exists within my mind

My God cannot be fathomed, and
Will never be undone
Each heart perceives Him

Comments

[shakatany]

The poet is right. First there are thousands of gods with different names and within religions like Christianity there are so many different aspects of this abrahamic god to be worked with which is how we do have decent, kind, generous Christians and others who want everyone to be cruel to gays, people of color and women (like the Nazis who were and are also Christians). It doesn't help that the Bible is an anthology of mythologies and everyone picks a different version of that deity.

Shakatany

PS just wanted to let you know LJ may be in trouble: http://rahirah.livejournal.com/695706.html

[bill_sheehan]

Thanks for your thoughtful comments every week, and thanks for the heads up.

To be quite honest, I'm seriously considering ending my LiveJournal subscription. The well is running dry, and I have other things I really ought to be doing. Most of my friends on LiveJournal are on Facebook now. There are tumbleweeds blowing down the streets of the Antitheism community.

I'd love to friend you on Facebook before this goes 404. There's a person FB who travels under the same name and is in your same city of 8 million people - is that you?

[shakatany]

Yes I'm Shakatany Lee over there but there are several of you.

I will certainly miss your Sunday Sermonettes. Do you do something similar over on FB?

Shakatany

[bill_sheehan]

I mainly use Facebook to keep up with friends and loved ones (and argue with people who are Wrong on the Internet).

I'm running out of Sermonette material, alas. There's only so much you can say about the non-existent.