Who Stands?

Now I'm confused — again. It happens so easily these days.

I read (via Towleroad: "Arlen Specter Health Care Town Hall Nearly Gets Physical") that the loudest, angriest white male at Arlen Specter's recent healthcare townhall meeting shouted: "One day, God's gonna stand before you. And he's gonna judge you…".

Now, I am just an uneducated atheist rube but it's always been my understanding that the dearly departed stands before God who, being Lord, sits in judgement. I'm thinking there's a throne involved, and isn't Jesus, who is his son and himself both, sits at his right hand (i.e., god sits beside himself)?

I see now that fundamentalist theology can be very complicated. Oh dear–if only it were rocket science.

Posted on August 11, 2009 at 16.14 by jns · Permalink
In: All, Current Events, Will Rogers Moments

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  1. Written by S.W. Anderson
    on Tuesday, 11 August 2009 at 23.24
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    You make a valid, humorous point, although I think it's a distinction without much of a difference. That boob has worse things going on than misstatements about the deity.

  2. Written by jns
    on Wednesday, 12 August 2009 at 11.36
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    He certainly has more serious issues, as you say SW, but I find it particularly irritating when self-righteous, sanctimonious boobs use their religion as a cudgel and don't even get their basic theology correct. What should they know? Things that even an atheist knows about their religions!

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