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Why, God, Why???
When I was a child, my folks accused me “You would argue with God Himself!” ‘No I wouldn’t,’ I argued. Truth is, I have questions. Disturbing questions. Do you?
In the movie Oh God, George Burns plays God interested in John Denver, playing Jerry, a simple man working at a grocery store. Denver asked God to prove himself by making it rain. It rained in Denver’s car. Denver asked, ‘Why in my car?’ God, “Why ruin everyone else’s day?” Oh God, Book II, God introduces Himself to a child and gets her to come up with a new tag line to get people thinking about God. She came up with, ‘Think God.’ In the interim, she had questions. Why are giraffe’s necks so long? “To reach the trees.” Why didn’t you just make shorter trees? “Where were you when I was creating the world?!” What questions would you ask God?
You don’t have to believe in God to ask the questions. It is neither a breach of faith, nor any less of an intellectual activity to ponder the great questions one might put to a deity. Humans, for the most part, claim to encourage the interrogatives of life. “There are no bad questions,” we say, and yet question authority on this planet, whether that is government, academics, priests, teachers, doctors, parents- more often than not…
