Rub a dub dub, thanks for the grub! Yay God!
Yesterday at dinner, I saw a man make the sign of the cross and bow his head before he ate. People still do that? People still do that in public? People still do that in public and don't mind being made fun of? It blows my mind to see people so pro-God. Seeing that act of devotion got me thinking about my favorite scene from Sister Act, where Sister Mary Clarence is asked to say grace:
"Bless us oh Lord for these thine gifts which we are about to recieve. And uh... ye Lord, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of no food, I shall fear no hunger. We want you to give us our day of daily bread. And to the republic for which it stands... by the powers vested in me, I pronounce us ready to eat. Amen."
It's not that I don't like God. I love God. I've got a God t-shirt. I just find it weird to give thanks to something that is indirectly responsible for the food getting on the plate. It's not like God made the pan-asian cuisine that was steaming hot in front of him. That would be like me thanking Wheaties for providing me the energy to win the 100 yard dash. Am I blaspheming yet? Just checking!
posted by Richie at
8:23 AM
8 Comments:
Indirectly responsible? Try directly.
Don't thank Wheaties for giving you energy. God did.
December 03, 2007 11:01 AM
Ya you should give thanks to God that you weren't born as a starving child in Africa, that you are blessed with food on your table, that you can eat a meal withing having some disease that makes you puke it up every time, etc, etc. You say you love God, but do you really know what that means?
December 04, 2007 5:35 PM
I pray out in public. I thank Him for the food that He created for us and the ability to smell and taste food. Humans don't need the sense of taste, and yet God imparted this to us as a gift.
I don't know about the rest of you guys, but when I sit down in front of roast chicken dinner with mashed potatoes, gravy, and wine with some cheesecake for dessert, I'm pretty bloody grateful for the fact that I was given the ability to taste.
July 08, 2008 3:30 PM
Your ignorance of the power that God possesses will be made evident when you and the rest of the so-called "believers" are spewed out like the luke warm water you are. Open your bible and read the whole thing this time, don't ignore passages that make you feel uncomfortable for your "feelings" sake. God is omnipotent and omniscient thus you should thank Him for the very fact that he allows you to type moronic garbage on the internet.
July 15, 2008 8:33 PM
Sounds like you don't know anything about God...
July 18, 2008 9:09 AM
Here's the thing.. uhm... God scks... HE put starving children on Earth, HE created contaminated water, HE created all those mass murderers or serial killers. HE created terrorists, HE created Hitler, HE created Bush.... the list goes on and on
(and for those God-loving ... idiots..: If u can press a button to save ur friend/dog from death, pain and agony, wud u do it ??) (if ur smart, u'll link that to the paragraph above)
God is not good, (he created the ideaology of good and bad if u REALLY wanna think outside the box)god is not merciful... get ur heads out of the book created by god knows whom, and think a little bit please.
November 11, 2008 8:38 PM
to the above entry, God created people but gave us the ability to choose what we will do in life and some people choose poorly (aka murderers, Hitler, etc).
God did not create ideology or religion. He did not write the Bible. MEN did. All of humankind is flawed and thus anything created by MANKIND can be flawed.
July 11, 2009 6:01 PM
If God is directly responsible for the food on my table, then why don't we hold him responsible for the child who starves to death??? Makes no sense to me that he should get all the credit but none of the blame. If he loves us, then why does he allow famines? I have food b/c I was lucky enough to be born in the US and because I studied in school and got a good job and buy my food. God has nothing to do with it. The luck of being born here isn't even thanks to God. It's just luck, or everyone who believes in God would be born somewhere nice. Or even those who don't believe.
January 24, 2010 8:14 PM
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