It’s about 5:45AM. I should be still asleep, but I’m surfing through Joe Conason’s journal on Salon.com. His latest entry is about Sellout Zell, the Senator from Georgia.
I’m not going to go into a full, play-by-play rundown of the entire article, but there are a couple of things in it that have brought up questions I’ve had all my life. In the article, Miller is quoted as saying that a certain person is “doing God’s work” by standing up for conservative American values. Hmmm.
Bush says that he’s doing God’s work by pummelling the hell out of Iraq.
Mother Theresa felt as if she was doing “God’s work” by caring for the poor.
Jim Jones said he was doing “God’s work” by breaking out the purple Kool-Aid.
What is it to do “God’s work”? What exactly does that mean? Isn’t it sort of arrogant to for us humans to say that we are doing “God’s work”…as if God *needed* us to do a damned thing?
What if you worshipped more than one God or Goddess? Would you get confused? “Am I doing Athena’s work today? Whoops! No. Persephone’s?” (I know, I know, pagans choose a patron, but work with me here).
More and more I’m beginning to look askance (is that a word?) at anyone from the left, right, or center, who uses “God” in any form to back up what they do or say. I used to do it myself. Then I realized that I wasn’t “doing God’s work”. I was doing “my vision of what I thought God’s work should be”.
I’m not making any sense at all. I think I should go back to bed.
Comments (7)
Well, looks like Zel l is out of the GOP circle like yesterday’s news.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5897622
His angry keynote speech and his bizarre behavior afterwards has the RNC running for cover …
Thanks. Just read the story. Ooooooo. Zell has some *issues*. Didn’t anyone from the RNC read his speech beforehand or did he go off the cuff?
The White House/Campaign approved all the speeches before they were given. Maybe it was the delivery? Umm… wait, the content was almost the same as Cheney’s. Must not have been content…
Your funny! That’s so true about “what is Gods work”???!!! When I hear people say that, I just sit there with a question mark over my head. But I just figured its because I gave up with people doing Gods work and just tried to work on getting myself out of bed and get to work!
My guess is that it was the delivery (wink) but he got stronger cheers than Cheney. His face was read and he came across as angry. The problem is that he was still ‘angry’ afterwards and nutted out on MSNBC’s Chris Matthews … saying that he wished he could challenge him to a duel. It was actually rather sad and Matthews, IMHO, was very compassionate as this man, clearly, is lapsing into something not so healthy.
Check out http://www.zellout.com/
Ya know, maybe this is just proof that I’ve been here too long…but why doesn’t anybody ever loudly proclaim that they’re doing Buddha’s work? :)
It’s all back to the high school mentality that politics and power bring to the table. My God can beat up your God…