Friday, February 17, 2006

Pleasing God

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I never pray. I learned early in my career as a human being that prayer does not work. So I never pray. Sarcasm might work. Ridicule might work. Distain might work. But prayer never works.

Throwing up might work. But who remembers at the critical time of a throw-up to offer that throw-up to God? And would god be interested? In a throw-up?

We have always been told, it seems to me, that god is interested in our suffering and that god is pleased by our suffering when we 'offer up our suffering' to god. But is that true?

Suppose you are sitting on the potty about to 'give birth.' You are in pain. You offer up your potty pain to god. Is god pleased? Repulsed?