I would like to expand on my idea from Big Fish of becoming angry with God. Let me recap my idea: when your imagined or projected ideal of the world falls short, “blame must be assigned.” By blaming God for these faults, you are assuming that God is imperfect when if fact it is humanity that is the imperfection.
This reminds me of an old joke I heard once. I will try and recap/make up most of it as best as possible from memory. A boat shipwrecks in the middle of the ocean leaving one survivor floating on remnants of the boat. He is thirsty and starving, feeling death slowly creeping in. A dolphin swims up and says, “I’ll take you to safety, jump on my back!” But the man refuses and says, “No, God will save me.” A sailboat approaches some time later and reaches out their hand to him. He shakes his head and says, “No, God will save me.” Then, as he’s near death, a cruise line throws him a rescue raft filled with water and food and pleas with him to take it. He again says, “No, God will save me.” He dies and transcends to heaven, standing at the pearly gates. God approaches and the man says, “God! Why didn’t you save me?” God says to the man, “I tried! I sent you a dolphin, a sailboat, a cruise line…”
Sorry, bad joke. But the point to recapping that was that we are all subjects to our free will and the choices we make active participants in our destiny. Blame is not to be assigned to anyone outside our selves for the path we choose, especially a being such as God.
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