You know you are thinking too much when you dream of defending God from intellectual assaults by both skeptics and wounded believers. I had a dream last night where I was defending God from both staunch atheists and skeptical believers. They both read the Bible in the worst light and thought of God more as an evil monster rather than a good master.
I remember in my dream thinking and debating with others how God seems to lose no matter which way one turns. If God intervenes in our prayers or circumstances, then God is arbitrary and morally inconsistent. If God does not intervene, God is impotent and like a divine child abuser watching his children suffer. In other words, no matter what God does or doesn't do, God loses in the end.
G. K. Chesterton is one of my favorite writers and he says something similar about the church. He says, "The church is accused of restraining sexuality too much at the same is is accused of restraining it too little . . . The church is accused of showing contempt for women's intellect. But at the same time the great sneer at the church in most countries is that "only women" go there . . . The church is criticized for being too political and too worldly, but also for not being involved enough in politics and being too unworldly. It is blamed for despising Jews, and also despised for being too Jewish!"
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