With David Hines.
Recorded by Auckland Unitarian Church 16th January 2022.
David Hines © 16 January 2022.
My sermon today says Let’s stop making apologies for God. She’s a total nuisance.
In the Christian circles I grew up in, people were constantly saying how good God was.
They blindly ignored all the grief and harm in the world, and if anybody drew attention to it, they’d come up with excuses. Like: God sent this to test you.
If you pointed out that God also did nothing whatever to help you through these troubles. You prayed for help and nothing happened, they’d say: God always answers your prayers: Sometimes the answer is Yes. Sometimes it’s no, and sometimes it’s wait.
I was not very old before I realised this too was crap, because that means absolutely any thing can be called God, and in practice that’s the same as there being no God at all.
So I’d like to talk about the claims religious people make for God, and the major excuses they make when she doesn’t deliver.
For more information see:-
https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/lets-stop-apologising-for-god/
