I hope you never have children Lestat. When they are asking for "Din dins" or "drinky" or "up up!" they are going to be disappointed by the arrogance and stupidity of their father.

Those poor kids.

I will pray for them.

My non denominational, or demoninational (how witty of me! right Lestat?) God whom I thoroughly believe in.

abu_rashid wrote on Sep 27^th, 2008 at 1:09am:


My God is pretty cool. It's like when you used to stay at your auntie and uncles house in the country during school holidays and they let you do whatever you want because they have no kids of their own, as long as it isn't hurting anyone or anything or being wasteful and you show consideration. And then they give you heaps of ice cream all day and take you fishing and yabbying and shooting and make bonfires at night.

That's what I see my God as being like.

Pretty much be nice, do nice and think nice, and all will be nice.

Everyone knows God is Irish so he supports a free Irish state. Although I have a feeling he doesn't go in for violence. 

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I guess it sounds a lot like what God would be like if I was to just invent one of my own too.

But surely you must realise that if you actually sincerely believe in a deity, then you can't just apply your own dimensions and requirements to him and custom-manufacture him to suit yourself, right?

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I treat you exactly the same as you treat me. I thought you were being nice Lestat, and so I was trying to seem like you so as to be more approachable. You weren't being nice all this time?

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My God isn't some angry old bastard who sits around all day being cranky and threatening me with eternal damnation for not restricting my enjoyment out of this glorious gift of life he has given me!

For all we know, you start off in Hell and have to earn the right out of here. I mean, all the suffering, poverty, natural disasters, death and destruction, it's not a very pleasant place. Maybe evil forces have conspired to keep us under their control by restricting our freedom and enjoyment to the utmost.

My God is pretty cool. I can't see him being some kind of sadistic psycho who created us with the express intent of wanting us to suffer for our whole lives, or else we get eternal suffering.

I mean, if God is all knowing, whenever you do something he knows your exact intentions and thoughts when doing something and should be able to accordingly interpret what you are doing as either good or bad.

What about the rich guy who donates 1 million out of the 1 billion he has to charity in order to get his smiling face in the paper? Do you think he is being a good guy? Who knows what's going on in his head.

Actions do not equal intentions.