Chess Pieces

[luna_manar]

All right, It's-all-part-of-God's-plan believers who insist on telling rape victims that God wanted them to be raped so they could have a baby. Let me get this straight.

We are all God's Tools. There are Good People and there are Bad People, but all things that happen are part of God's Plan, and so one way or another, we are ultimately doing His Work.

And when he's done using us, he only keeps the ones he likes.

So when bad things happen to you, you're supposed to go about your business and just take consolation in the idea that God wanted it to happen, and that by being faithful, dutiful and obedient, you just so happen to be one of the lucky ones who doesn't get thrown away in the end?

What the fuck is that shit?

No no, don't try and reword that--that is verbatim. This part: "We are all God's Tools. There are Good People and there are Bad People, but all things that happen are part of God's Plan, and so one way or another, we are ultimately doing His Work." You can't escape saying it over and over. And since you can't escape or sidestep saying it, you need to think about that it means. What it means is that we are objects that God owns, the way you or I own a sack of potatoes. You're saying that whether we are good or bad people doesn't matter in terms of God's plan. In fact, you can't not further God's plan. You can't not help. All you have to do is whatever it is you do, and God still gets his way. So either no actions can possibly be evil (because it all furthers God's Plan), and God's insistence on punishing certain people is completely arbitrary, or there are good and evil actions, but it doesn't matter, because God's Plan isn't necessarily good.

Either way, you're being used like a mop, and then retained as a keepsake or tossed out with the garbage based on something other than how well you did your job. Because some people are cherished ornaments, and some people are mops.

...The best thing you can ever hope to be to God is a keepsake ornament.

Really. Really. You're comfortable with that. Right?

Comments

[hebinekohime]

Sadly, I think people like that are comfortable with the idea. If their identity is completely wrapped up in God, then being God's object is more comforting than being nothing at all.

[luna_manar]

I know that some people are okay with it. I just wish they would say it. They don't say it, not in public, and that pisses me off. The only reason they wouldn't say it is either they realize that it's a shit deal and don't want to revolt against an abusive master, or they honestly haven't thought about it that deeply. I wish the people who are comfortable with it would say it, so that the people who are just sheep but wouldn't be comfortable with it if they understood it would have an opportunity to check themselves and either get comfortable with such a belief, or feel uncomfortable with it, and possibly find the courage to question it. The fact that so many people who are comfortable with this belief do not proudly express it in public or around their children indicates that they're afraid of losing followers, and rather than risk that, they pretty up their ideology to make it sound not quite so harsh.

I just wish they'd come out and say it.