One of the things I’ve never understood is being taught to fear God. I’ve been told before that the “fear of God” is supposed to be more of a reminder that God can take all you have away at any time. My question is, why would he do that? I’m being completely serious. Why would he do that? To “teach us a lesson?” Ok. Fine. But frankly, unless he makes it perfectly clear what we’re supposed to be learning, it’s not going to work. People don’t cry out to God when they lose what they had, they cry out AGAINST him. They want to know why he took it from them, why he would allow the circumstances that caused the loss in the first place. If they do cry out to God, they blame the Devil, when it was probably something they themselves did and they’re not owning up to it.
I don’t fear my Goddess. I know that if there is a lesson to learn, she will do what is necessary to teach me. However, I also know that even though she could, she would not take everything away from me to prove a point. Unlike the teachings I received as a Christian about a vengeful God who pours out judgments on those who do not worship him as he has commanded them to, my Goddess is loving. It saddens her when people don’t believe in her or worship her, but she is not going to pour out some divine wrath at the end of the world because of it.
So maybe all those judgments at the “end of the world” are the reason people are taught to fear God – because they don’t want to be a part of it. No thank you. I’ll take my loving Goddess instead.
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