God has apparently responded to Ernie Chambers - twice - even going so far as to show his might by delivering one of the responses via thin air. According to the John Friend, the clerk of the Douglas County Court:
“This one miraculously appeared on the counter. It just all of a sudden was here - poof!”
My suspicion is the God had a little helper and it might have involved Friend looking the other way. Christians are so cute!
Anyway, in the response sent down from heaven, God asserts that he is outside of the jurisdiction of our world and:
It adds that blaming God for human oppression and suffering misses an important point.
“I created man and woman with free will and next to the promise of immortal life, free will is my greatest gift to you,” according to the response, as read by Friend.
There was no contact information on the filing, although St. Michael the Archangel is listed as a witness, Friend said.
Oh, I see. It’s free will that caused the “fearsome floods, egregious earthquakes, horrendous hurricanes” and the other disasters that Chambers charged God in his lawsuit. Yeah, “God’s” free will. It seems like God might need to retain some counsel.
But wait, he did! The second response from “God” lists a phone number from a Corpus Christi law office.
Obviously, God needs a better executive assistant to better coordinate his lawsuits.
Friendly Atheist links to Chambers’ actual suit. Download the PDF here. You must read it. It’s short and obviously a work of genius.
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MJ added these pithy words on Nov 12 07 at 10:10 amI practice Christianity, and that “poof” appearance set-up even offends me. I can slightly understand what they were trying to accomplish with emulating a rebuttal for God. But, I guess I just feel that if they really believed in God with the certain faith they may profess, they would not try to use tricks and manipulation to defend him. I don’t think God needs defending - period. Believing in God is a concscious PERSONAL decision. If a person decides to dye his hair purple, that’s a personal decision, and it would be off-putting to convince everyone else to have purple hair too. I think that people like the person who left that note on God’s behalf would do better to live their beliefs (love, non-condemning compassion and charity)than to doggedly try and convince other people of it. There will always be things we do not understand and can not explain (crimes against the innocent, natural disasters, etc.). But, to keep on believing in, hoping for, and working to create good things is the essence of faith. If there really was an indisputable explanation to everything, the term “faith” would have no meaning - we’d simply call it “proof”.
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