God Fearing Christians
“It is unfortunate that [Benjamin Jealous] does choose to label millions of God-fearing and good Americans as racist.” —Reverend C.L. Bryant in this segment of the July 17 episode of Freedom Watch
This phrase struck me as odd. While I agree with his sentiment and the segment itself was a good one, I couldn’t quite get past the way the term “God-fearing” is used.
I’m trying to wrap my head around what exactly makes it an appealing or positive quality: what does it say about either the person, or the omnipotent being? What benefit is there to be afraid of your God? If you fear his reprisal and this is why you do good things, I can’t fathom you’re truly a good person. A good person does not steal, murder, or rape because they know these things to be an immoral violation of their fellow man’s natural rights. The threat of jail or Hell is unnecessary. This would seem to nullify the second adjective he chose to use, “good Americans.” I don’t think a good American should need to fear their God, right?
That only leaves one other explanation, being that God is just a huge jackass and not at all loving as most tend to claim. If you’re a good person, a truly genuine good person who does not need the fear of eternal damnation to do the right thing, the only possible reason left for you to fear God is because he’ll fuck you up for no reason. He’ll shit in your cereal and fuck your sister without calling, then cause a manure truck to jump the curb in front of your house, running over your dog before crashing through your living room wall. Not because you did anything to him or because you deserve it, just because he’s like that and thinks it’d be funny.
And you religious people think God is loving? What the fuck is wrong with you?
Posted by wobbles on Monday, July 19, 2010