Today I was watching the news regarding the coal mine accident in West Virginia. The relatives of the victims at first had been told that their loved ones were alive; after three hours, they were told there had been a mistake and most were actually dead.
One man, a friend of the families, was interviewed. He said that during the celebration, people were praising and thanking God. When the truth was told, those same people started cursing and screaming at God. He said that one man had said, “What the **** has God ever done for me?”
I thought long and hard about that, and even changed my Wednesday Bible class today so we could visit about it. I don’t condemn the man who was supposed to have said the above quote, because I might have said the same thing in my pain and sorrow. But I wonder how often we who have not seen tragedy and suffering as these folks have ask the same question in the same tone of voice. Have we become chronic complainers, whiners, and gimme-er’s?
Gimme God Blues
From the musical For Heaven’s Sake
Written by Helen Kromer and Fredrick Silver
Partial Lyrics:
I got the Gimme God blues, I got the Gimme God blues
Cus God won't gimme what I want him to gimme,
I got the Gimme God blues....
Wanna be healthy, wanna be wise
Wanna have all that money buys
The best of schools, the smartest clothes
The kind of breeding the thoroughbred knows.
Wanna have talent, wanna have fame
Marry a man with a very big name.
Wanna take everything worth bein' took
Wanna shake down heaven till the heaven's shook....
When I get what I wanna get,
I want what I haven't got yet
And when that's gotten, you can bet
What I got wasn't what I thought I'd get.
I got the gimme God blues
6 comments:
First of all why do my clothes need to be smart? Thats just stupid, and no I do not want to marry a guy with a very big name weather that be metaphorical or literal either way for the most part I don't want it or don't care. Big names are amazingly, freakishly stupid. I find the tradgedy to be blinsided people like you not those miners (although their deaths were sad as is most deaths of human beings), people like you though who are so oblivious and wrapped up in your own bible pushing religion that you forget the basic principles of life because you follow like a mindless, gutless, idiot because you lack the mental compacity to question or think or wonder about anything, so you just follow a book or religion that tells you what to do because you are so stupid that you can't even think for yourself. I find you to be a complete pansy for you can't even quote another mans swear word yet alone say it. I pity you for you will forever live a life in chains because you're so stupid that your brain can't process any thoughts for itself. Good luck with that.
The book of Job tells us quite clearly that bad things happen. It also gives us a great example of how we should act when those bad things happen. Job was so righteous, or "blameless and upright" as the book tells us, that when he lost everything: his house, his children, even his health; he did not curse God at any point (or "curse God and die," as his wife suggested he do). In fact, at each point that he lost something, he fell on his knees and gave praise to God. If only we could live by that example when something bad happens to us, rather than immediately blame God for our woes.
No, Scott, I don't mind comments like piratekayle left. It's a free country. Piratekayle is entitled to his/her opinions, and I will allow him/her to borrow my site this time to express them.
I'm just sad that people like piratekayle feel the way they do. It must be an existence for them that I can only describe as tortured.
I desire no pity, piratekayle. Save yours, and any future comments, for someone who needs it on some other site.
Kinda funny perhaps sad, depending on how you look at it - but if you go look at Piratekayle's blog, you see that she does hate her life, and many things in it (including her parents). I must agree that "tortured" would be a very accurate word in describing the way she herself views her own existence.
It's sad that anything that is even overtly Christian causes people to be so violent even in their use of words. piratekayle is indeed entitled to their own opinion, but why the rant about your choice of words? You have the same freedom! Keep blogging!
Thanks, SPB, for your comments. I don't mind people disagreing with the tenants of Christianity, or anything else I write...but I would wish they do so with tact, grace, and some knowledge of the subject.
The type of response as given here only displays the giver's profound ignorance and lack of the "things" that make human beings tolerable to one-another. In other words, it's bad...but only for the one writing it. It does nothing bad to me, other sadden me.
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