Does god want us to live in a cage? Doesn’t god want us to be good because we’re free?
A very respected and dear friend of mine just got asked to pull down a photograph she had posted, of the blood vessels and nervous system of the human body. The request came from someone who found the photograph “distasteful and annoying.” My friend’s response, very courteous, was: stop trying to censor science and trying to censor me, and if you find this offensive, just don’t read it.
Who on earth gave people the idea that to follow god, they had to shame and shroud themselves, cover their faces, cover their minds. Who depicted this terrifying and, frankly, terrified god as a cowering punitive petty scoutmaster, jealous of everybody’s knowing. It is such a sad facsimile of the open exploration, the happy curiosity, the sense of blessed appreciation and wonder that should be our response to this natural world in and of and around ourselves, however we feel it came about.
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