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PG got up, and looked at the intercom. He wasn’t looking for trouble. Pyromaniacs came up as if by magic, and there was a post about “redneck atheism”.
Actually, there were two posts about redneck atheism, which someone thinks is a clever phrase. Neither one mentions the connection to racism that is implied in redneck. You can tell all the hillbilly jokes you want, but the blunt truth is that rednecks are people that don’t like people with skin darker than theirs. And that is not the way that it is usually phrased.
PG sent an email about that to one of the perps, who is probably going to ignore it. That does not distract PG from a sentence in the other post, which got his Georgia blood boiling. ( Whether or not PG is a redneck is a matter of perspective. Sometimes it is best to defer to the opinions of others.)
The post that got PG’s britches in a tangle was about prayer. The post is part of a series responding to a list of one liners, that start “you might be a non questioning Christian if…”. These are a take off on some Jeff Foxworthy jokes about rednecks. ( In a bit of full circle irony, Mr. Foxworthy is now born again).
The nugget that inspired the pyroboi today was ” You define 0.01% as a “high success rate” when it comes to answered prayers. You consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you think that the remaining 99.99% failure was simply the will of God.”
The reply to this, and the reason why PG is sputtering, goes … “I can’t speak for people who deliberately pray for things that are manifestly opposed to the will of God, but my prayers are all answered. ”
PG grew up in a Baptist family, and left the church when he was 17. The next 28 years saw various paths and detours, before arriving at a destination of live and let live. His deeply Christian mother died at the end of 1998, and PG found comfort in the kindness of her friends.
Soon, PG found himself at war. He was working with a Professional Jesus Worshiper, who decided there was a problem with PG. One of the weapons that PJW used was Jesus.
Even after the open conflict cooled off, the PJW conducted an on-the-clock ministry in front of PG. This ministry created ill will for Jesus, and served to alienate PG from Jesus and Jesus worship.
The Third commandment says not to use the name of the LORD in vain. Conducting a ministry, while you are paid to work for your employer, that creates ill will for Jesus…this would seem to PG to be a clear violation of the Third commandment. It would seem to be “manifestly opposed to the will of G-d”
PG prayed every day during this long ordeal. He prayed to G-d to make PJW quit creating ill will for Jesus.
The prayer was never answered.