A CONVERSATION WITH GOD. PART 22.

For thousands of years, humans, first the priests, shaman, and the clergy, and then the ordinary people, have sought to speak with the gods, and then for the gods. 

Always being secure in the knowledge that the gods would not denounce what they have reported of these conversations. So, why have the gods remained silent? Why have the gods chosen not to speak for themselves?

G.: Do I want them to shave their bodily hair and wash themselves before they bow down before me? 

Or that their women do not prostrate themselves before me when they are menstruating?

Do I want that they be only Muslims before they can prostrate themselves before me and proclaim themselves the only 'true believers'?

Do I require them to kill their animals without causing them as little suffering as they are able to, using the latest equipment available to the slaughterers?

I am supposed to be pleased when they cut of the hands or feet of those who, sometimes in absolute desperation, steal? 

When such punishment simply condemns the person to further desperation, in making them less employable and capable of working for a living?

T.: I do not supposed you would ask of the 'faithful', any of those things, G. 

As I cannot see how it would benefit you, or that you would be up there, or wherever the 'faithful' imagine you to be. Watching, to ensure that they 'do your will', as ascribed by Man.

G.: Am I a god who would demand the amputation of a man's foot or hand, in recompense for some food he stole to feed his family, T? 

Or, am I the vengeful and callous kind of god who would condone the stoning to death of a man or woman, who commits what you humans call adultery? 

Do I really want to or need be concerned the sexuality of you humans? Whether you are 'straights', 'gay' or 'lesbian' or whatever? 

Do the 'faithful' not only imagine me to be 'a petty god', but also one who is pre-occupied with the affairs of humans? 

And how could this be so, when all the evidence indicates that I avoid becoming involved in the lives of humans?

T.: I certainly do not think that you are G. As I have said already, the kind of god who would be worthy of being respected and hold in high esteem, by us humans, would not be a petty and vengeful or inhumane god. 

No, sir, not at all. Such a god would not find any place in the heart of compassionate humans.

To be continued.