Xmastime on God

...Sunday is the day of rest, as its the day God rested. The God Squad always goes out of its way to tell you that during the Creation "...and on the 7th Day, God rested." What the fuck...what's the big deal with telling us God rested? If God is so awesome and powerful that he can create the whole universe in a matter of days, is he really the sort that would need a break? And then after this big day of rest, what happened? Nothing. There's no big "8th Day" in the Bible...so what the fuck was he even resting up for? Why didn't these people make it so that he took a break between days 3 and 4, which would at least make SOME sense? Whack to me. - XMASTIME

Why do people think God’s so impressed with hard work? Entire religious value systems are built on the premise that God appreciates hard work for hard work’s sake and that’s how you get into heaven, but why? God, who is all powerful, took a few days to wave his hand and create the entire Universe but he’s supposed to claim to be so impressed/care about us working hard down here on Earth? I was created by the guy who can do anything with the wave of his hand and my entire raison d’etre is supposed to somehow be tied into how hard I work? Really?

I know it’s a wild coincidence that a lot of the people who espouse such a belief just happen to be the beneficiarie$$$$ of so many people being dedicated to believing in it, but I’m also *guessing* that a couple thousand years ago some guy realized his workers would work a little harder for him if he somehow convinced them that their working hard was so important not to him, but to God.

I don’t wanna turn this into some usual “of course religion/God is just rich people fooling poor people into giving them more of their own value” social commentary on my end, no matter how brilliant it may be, I just wanna point out how weird it is that out of all the values for us to latch onto re: pleasing God one of the big ones is…how hard I bust my ass building a fence? Or that I insist on working at my job 90 hours a week? We’re each on this Earth MAYBE 80 years out of an infinite eternity and we’ve decided that “showing how hard we’re willing to work ourselves to the bone” is the thing that’s gonna get us into heaven? Seems a bit like bullshit curious to me.