Spectra Says It: Why I Don't Believe In or Worship the Church God

I do not believe in or worship the Church God of what many people call Christianity.

This is not to say that I don't believe in a higher power/creator force.

It is not to say that I don't believe in certain entities or possibilities currently termed "metaphysical" or "magic."

It is not to say that I don't believe in at least the possibility of beings such as those creatures that might be termed angels, demons, or deities. 

What I am saying is that even if the Church God exists, I do not and will not worship said being. However, in truth I believe that the Church God is mostly a projection of the ideals of Zir worshipers.

The Church God is an egotistical, abusive asshole. I will not worship an egotistical, abusive asshole.

What deity worth zir salt would require the absolute prostration of creatures so far beneath it? To an all powerful being, we would seem no more evolved than a cluster of caterpillars. To require absolute worship from us would be similar to me requiring absolute worship from my fish. After all, I feed the bastard and change its water. It should be bowing down and worshiping me. I allow it to live.

As for the omnipotence of such a being, if it is omnipotent and involved in our lives, then how dare it allow such horrors as children being raped, women and girls being impregnated by rape, children dying of cancer and other diseases, people of any age losing their intellectual capabilities due to terrible conditions that destroy their brains. 

What kind of a monster would allow a person who felt they were male be born into a female body to a father who, when said person hit puberty, raped them and forced them to bear the child of said forced copulation? Then, to add insult to injury, said person came to love said child, and said child died as the result of anaphylaxis following a bee sting. Then, while said person was recovering from the grief of losing said child, it is discovered that he has bone cancer.

The above is a true story which has all happened in the brief 18 years that this unfortunate young man has been on the Earth.

If the Church God exists, perhaps one can explain away the rape as free will on the part of the father, who chose to commit the vile act of rape. But how do you explain away the bone cancer? 

If Church God gave this person bone cancer, ze is malicious. I don't care if it's "so he can learn important lessons and get closer to God." That's just fucking awful.

If Church God did not give this person bone cancer, but ze cannot take it away, ze is not omnipotent. 

If Church God did not give this person bone cancer, but ze will not take it away, ze is either malevolent or apathetic.

The only one of these that I would even consider paying homage to is a benevolent but not omnipotent creator force which is able to give life but not prevent disease or evil.

Let us postulate for a moment that Church God is an absolute fact. Church God exists. Ze giveth and Ze taketh away. Ze allows evil of all stripes because human free will. (I'm still not sure how our free will allows diseases or death raining from the sky in the form of killer asteroids or anything but human-perpetrated crime such as rape and murder, but okay.) Ze is omnipotent (all powerful) and Zir followers claim that Ze is all-loving.

I still call bullshit.

A being that is all loving would not require absolute worship or to the eternal lake of fire and torture to any being that does not believe or refuses to worship. That isn't all loving, that's all ego. I refuse to worship any being under threat of punishment. 

A being that is all loving AND all powerful would never allow one of its creatures to be raped and murdered. Hell, it wouldn't have even created anything that was carnivorous. Everything would be eating leaves and seeds happily.

For a being that is omnipotent to stand idly by and watch its creations suffer?

That's just all kinds of fucked up.

Either Church God is benevolent but not omnipotent, ze is omnipotent but malevolent, ze is omnipotent but apathetic, or ze is nether benevolent nor omnipotent. 

The one thing Church God is not is benevolent and omnipotent. Because if Ze were, the world would not be nearly as fucked up as it is.

~Spectra~

Apocalyptic Beliefs Lead to Tragedy

This certainly isn't the first story of this kind, and it probably won't be the last.

A follow-up article appears here, explaining that the parents apparently believed in some sort of impending apocalypse. The wife had been communicating with Dan Lafferty who, along with his brother Ron, murdered their sister-in-law and her fifteen-month-old child, stating that they had received a "revelation from God."

These sort of scenarios are always sad. It's frightening how deeply indoctrinated people can become when they hold extremist religious beliefs.

~Wanda~

A Real Angel

 

This is my first shot at a photoshop where I add wings to my subject.

Actually, I had reason for doing this other than messing around in photoshop.

This person actually does exude angelic energy.

He's not a perfect person, in fact there were times in his life that he was kind of a mess.

He's struggled with depression during his life, which it would seem that incarnated angels tend to.

I think there may be a reason why the manner of his final days on Earth are such a trial for him and so heartbreaking for the observer.

I don't really know what that reason is. But I do feel there is one.

Blessed be, Beautiful. You were always strong and good, even if you slipped sometimes.

 

In love and light,

Cie

Healing Spell Reboot

Music suggested by blogging teammate Illsa. Thank you, Illsa!

I am now doing a dual healing spell; one for my son's friend who has bone cancer, and one for the special friend whom I was helping on the astral level.

Last time, my friend had decided that there was no helping him as his case was too severe and stated that he instead wanted to utilize his energies to assist my son's friend.

It turns out that the healing energy has been helpful to him regardless of whether it heals his body. It is helping him on a spiritual level. We have also learned that on a subconscious level, he has some real issues with feeling that he doesn't deserve good things.

I am now doing one healing spell for each of them.

I tend to have a problem with needing to know the outcome before I start. I have to fight against that tendency. This spell will be helpful in some way, that much I know.

 

Love and light,

Cie

American History: Was the CIA Involved in the Assassination of President Kennedy?

The CIA is no sweet, benevolent entity. They're pretty damn scary, and they're certainly capable of having done this.

~Aurora~

A Biblical Literalist Defending Slavery

Biblical literalists go to the most head-spinning extremes to defend every single last word in the bible, down to the most deplorable things. It really is mind-boggling.

~Dolly~

Healing Spell Day 1

This music was suggested by my friend Dolly. Thank you, Dolly! It's perfect.

My special friend suggested that we choose oracle cards from my Doreen Virtue oracle cards decks for the four elements. We received Guinevere from the Goddess Guidance deck for Earth, a mermaid with the message Set Your Sights Higher from the Magical Mermaids and Dolphins deck, Miracle Healing for the air element from the Healing With the Fairies deck, and Emerging for the fire element from the Healing with Angels deck.

While I am still saddened that there will be no miraculous recovery for him (he does deserve it), he says that at this point his role is to work from the spirit realm, and he is okay with that. His role always was to be a guide for others, even if he didn't always realize it.

I had a really good feeling about this healing. I was able to perceive the presence of elemental spirits, and their energy was very bright and positive. I feel a bit more at ease and like there is less of a struggle. I can breathe easier when doing this spell.

The thought comes to me that although bone cancer is certainly a very serious condition, it is easier working with the energies of a young person with greater recuperative powers (despite the fact that he has a severe form of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a disabling genetic condition). Working with the energies of a critically ill older person (my special friend is in his early sixties) was significantly harder.

Typical of him:

"The spirit was willing, but the flesh is fucked."

The Heavens had better never expect conformity from, as Dolly called him, this gritty Bodhisattva.

Blessings and light to all who read this.

Merry meet and merry part and merry meet again.

Love and light,

Cie

and friends