Archive -> May 27, 2006

God or monster?

The God you worship, you have from your own heart changed from a compassionate and loving being to a monster. You tell kids if you aren’t good you’re going to hell, now get your butt to church that’s why I go to church (sic).

There should be a magnet in church like the pollen for the bee. The necessity to go to church should be because I know I need the honey. I shouldn’t have to go to church because someone tells me, “brother, you miss a Friday man, you’re suppose to be in the mosque.” Well what if I don’t go? Well you’re going to get burnt up. That’s what it comes down to. Is that identifying with your compassionate heavenly father? That’s not my type of “God.” My Eli (God) doesn’t say that just because he’s a Christian he’s going to hell, and because he’s a Buddhist he’s going to hell and because he’s a Hebrew he’s going to hell, and because he’s a Muslim he’s not. That’s not God, that’s man’s mortal nature differentiating between creatures.

Excerpted from Is There A God? by Dr. Malachi Z. York