Now before we get started let me make a few things clear
NO. I am not trying to preach
NO. I am not going to start my own fucking church
NO. I am not trying to push my opinon on anyone
NO. I am not trying to be degrading to the Catholic church or any branch of the Christian church. Lets add any religon at that
some of this is going to sound crazy to your but I know what Ive seen and I know the good people on NS are going to see this as what it is and put some insiteful thoughts into it. I take no responsibilty for any fighting due to the topic of religon in this thread
For Cliff notes see way bottom
Now on with my point
For some time now I have been in Catholic school. In fact all of my life I have been thought only the ways of the Catholic church. But now I am old enough to see things outside of the box. Developing my own style of religous handwriting if you will. And what I find is that God is not this proper thing with the authoity of kinglydon (if thats a word) installed into him. I was always told to be respectful to him and such because he is almighty and our creator and that to pray to him often yadda yadda. What I have found though, is that if you treat him like that, its not a good thing. In fact I find that it is better to talk to him as you would anyone else. Let me explain. If what I was told for my whole life is correct, we are made in the image of God no?
Well now with this said, we must all then have a part in God. This makes us, in a way, equal to him. No with the being an image of this in my mind include traits. Traits such as anger, sadness, etc... Only thing I think was not his was jealousy. I belive that was a man made emotion. These emotions have been shown throughout the bible so theres some proof for you. Weather you read the bible or not is your thing. Anyways, churches always tell you to pray. Pray pray pray. Thats like the number one thing to do in any religon. Now let me ask you: If you had someone comming up to you, every single day of your life asking for a favor, wouldnt after a while you turn them down for a good deal of them? Why? Because you get aggitated and annoyed. I think thats why God doesnt answer every little prayer. He gets annoyed like we would and turns them down for a good deal of them. Me, every single time I have asked God for something I have gotten it. and even somethings I didnt ask for. You know why? Because I very rarely turn to him and ask for things. Once maybe...every two years. Three times in a year at max. I dont bug him for things a lot. Sure I come with the occasional favor but the time span between them is so great he doesnt mind. One thing that he has given me today was a sign. Actually its been going on for two days now. I prayed, and no not the traditional get down on kneees, deep though praying. I did just like a chat to him, as though I was talking to a friend. what I prayed for was a sign of something that I was having trouble yet. I waited, took about a half hour till I got under my bridge near my developmetn and stopped, and sat. There above me were five pigeons. 3 gray and two white. I didnt get it at first but then it hit me. the three gray ones where the guys who were involved and the two white ones where the girls. I just so happen to also have a silly thing with pigeons with one of the key persons involved so it all made sense. For the past 48 hours these pigeons have been very acurrate in the things going on. Almost like up to the minute stats. But back to my point. I thnk god wants to be treated more like a friend then a holy figure. The amount of respect given to him daily may be slightly annoying and he just wants to us to see him as someone who is there rather then a almighty one.
Well thats all I thought for today. And dont bash me for this. I thought NS would be a smart bunch for once and not be so ignorant toward thoughts
CLIFFNOTES: My veiw on God is that he wants to be treated as a friend rather then an almighty being so that there can be a greater relationship between the us and him. Also praying every single day is like someone asking you for a favor everyday. you going to get annoyed and say no for a good deal of them. Same with God, he gets annoyed and says no. Only going to him when you need and no more is fine and has worked for me.