What’s Wrong with God
Posted by Boe | June 27, 2009
What’s Wrong with God?
Does everything have to be so sterile, cold and secular when it comes to work? Are corporations so afraid of litigation, and offending someone, that they have completely outlawed God from being present anywhere near their business or employees? Why are people offended so easily when God is mentioned outside of the walls of the church?
Is there no need in anyone’s life for a compassionate, caring and comforting God? Do employees have to check their souls at the door as they enter their respective places of work? Has all conflict, job stress, marriage issues, chemical addictions, and financial challenges vanished from the workplace? Are employees totally free from the clutches of pornography, drug addiction, gambling, alcoholism, depression and anger issues? I believe all of us are intelligent enough to realize the answer to these questions.
Certainly, there have been numerous times in the marketplace, when the dogma of one person has been offered without sensitivity, and offended or alienated other employees. Everyone should learn to be very sensitive and respectful of each other’s spirituality. I believe we’ve learned from many years of discussing religion in the work environment, that there is a hunger in the soul of corporate America for some deep and meaningful dialog about God, faith, church, and how God makes a difference in every part of our lives.
No one wants to be judged, condemned, or alienated because of a faith in God, nor an absence of a faith in God. Every human being has been created with a desire and a thirst to know more about how we came to be, and what our purpose on this earth is? It is a natural quest to know more about our spirituality, and who better to dialog with than with our friends and co-workers at the office that we know and trust.
The spirituality issue will always surface as we travel through the journey of life. I propose that allowing God’s gentle presence into the halls and boardrooms of corporate America is vital and even necessary, for the well being of our employees. I’m not advocating turning our companies into houses of worship, but can’t we just allow Him a place among us as we go about our work day? Is there anything wrong with that?
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Very good Boe!! And yes there is a need!! In a quiet gentle manner people are hungry to be loved, cared for and know there is a God… Man was born with the inner hunger to know God.
Have you ever thought of taking CC south of the Red River… I see a huge need for that here..
Would love to visit more with you about this…
Blessings!
Patty
I can remember times as a young worker how mentioning the name Jesus / God was like the B.F. Hutton comercials but with a negative ring! Parents of the 60s had been heard to state, “Talk about anything, sports, weather and the news but never religion!” I’ve found this to be true …. when there is loss in an employee’s life …. be there with hands open, a tissue, a basket of anything, support them in their time of crisis and Jesus is all over your face and in that place. He will open up a time for you to share in a more appropriate place and time. Christ should not stand at the business world door seeking to come in yet at the same time we need to honor our work code. A dear friend of mine used to sneak off and read his Bible while he was supposed to be on the job. We can take to heart the scripture, Pray without ceasing can also mean meditate on His Word with out ceasing. They can go hand in hand and we can go on working, making that sales pitch, hammering that nail, placing that phone call, in the work place.
Danny. I agree the work place is just the place for God.
I can remember times as a young worker how mentioning the name Jesus / God was like the E.F. Hutton comercials but with a negative ring! Parents of the 60s had been heard to state, “Talk about anything, sports, weather and the news but never religion!” I’ve found this to be true …. when there is loss in an employee’s life …. be there with hands open, a tissue, a basket of anything, support them in their time of crisis and Jesus is all over your face and in that place. He will open up a time for you to share in a more appropriate place and time. Christ should not stand at the business world door seeking to come in yet at the same time we need to honor our work code. A dear friend of mine used to sneak off and read his Bible while he was supposed to be on the job. We can take to heart the scripture, Pray without ceasing can also mean meditate on His Word with out ceasing. They can go hand in hand and we can go on working, making that sales pitch, hammering that nail, placing that phone call, in the work place.
Danny. I agree the work place is just the place for God.
“Does everything have to be so sterile, cold and secular when it comes to work?” — I am not sure that you should lump in secular with cold and sterile, certainly you dont mean to say that secular people are cold and sterile? Or, perhaps you do mean that … if so that is quite ignorant.
“Why are people offended so easily when God is mentioned outside of the walls of the church?” I would never waist time in a church, but I can say I find it offensive when someone at work start preaching, because I think it is made up none sense which has been used to harm more then it has helped. Keep your religion to yourselves, some of just are not interested in hearing it.
“Is there no need in anyone’s life for a compassionate, caring and comforting God?” You must not be talking about the blood thirsty god of the bible, who had people raped and murdered. Certainly not the god of the theology which requires a human sacrifice (jesus) to make him feel better about not sending us to eternal pain and torment. This is why many of are offended by your god, you seem to have blinded yourself to the blood lust he has in the bible. Who would want that god, the one who says “you suck, so I am going become my own son, get beaten and killed, then you wont suck so much anymore” Give me a break, it is so clearly none sense.
“No one wants to be judged, condemned, or alienated because of a faith in God, nor an absence of a faith in God. ” Christians are all about judging and condemning anyone who is not also a christian. Talk about alienation, you people would out law life styles which you have a problem with. And yes there are many people and an ever growing number of them who would love a world with out fairy tale gods and worthless faith.
“Every human being has been created with a desire and a thirst to know more about how we came to be, and what our purpose on this earth is?” there is no purpose other then the one we imagine, like it or not it just is what it is. As for learning how we came to be, that is what science is for. We came be through a series of events which eventually lead to our evolution and some day we will either evolve into something else or die off. Before you say “well doesn’t that bother you” Nope, not at all. I did not seem to have a problem with the billions of years before I existed, so why after?
“It is a natural quest to know more about our spirituality, and who better to dialog with than with our friends and co-workers at the office that we know and trust.” Oh sure, burden them with your fluffy silliness, they will like listen politely. But really, if you are seeking to know your self better, see a psychologist.
“The spirituality issue will always surface as we travel through the journey of life.” Not really … the word spirituality means everything and nothing at all. There are always issues, to be sure, but the terms you apply to them are a matter of pure semantics. There is no such thing as the spirit, at least in some real and tangible way. It is a just a word used to say everything and nothing at all.
“God’s gentle presence” I wonder if this is how you would comfort the people he drown in the flood, or the ones he opened the earth up and sucked in, or perhaps the ones he rained snakes down on, or the parents of babies he killed, or the peoples if the lands he told the Israelites to whipe out. Of course keeping the young virgins to rape later. Oh, does that offend you … it is what your bible says. Funny how the god you guys always talk about, does not fit the character in the book you read …. talk about willfully being ignorant.
“but can’t we just allow Him a place among us as we go about our work day? Is there anything wrong with that?” let him fill out an application and submit it for review like every other applicant. Then if he is hired he can hang out at the office, but I am not sure who is interesting hiring a man whose only skills are inventive ways to murder millions at a time. Perhaps, god can get work as a terrorist. Yes, there is much wrong with people like you bringing your silly religious none sense where it does not belong. Do your job at work, and sing your kumbyyas on your own time.
What is wrong with it ? Give me a break, there is nothing right about it.
Even Paul himself said “When I was a child I spoke as a child, but when I became a man, it was time to put away childish things” So, put jesus in the box with the easter bunny and santa and grow up. Reality is waiting for you….