"God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them." Bono
In the midst of all the arguements of God. In the midst of all the false prophecies of the religous right and ultra-fundamentalist, I am sick of that God. I see why so many choose not to believe in that God, for if he exists its better to ignore him. I myself am so sick of the rhetoric that my goal for this blog was to never mention the word God, but to let him exist in the truths we find in life. I guess I gave in, I am going to talk about him today (but notice I have less to say).
The God of the Bono quote is one I can believe in, and one I can chase. This is God's justice, that he would choose to side with the people who have no hope for justice.
Author Brian McLaren says in a recent podcast “We are especially prone to this idolatry of ideology and idolatry of words, and I think there is a certain sense that our atheism is a desire to disbelieve the words we keep saying about God because we know God has to be better than those words.”
This God who loves the poor, sick and hopeless, is the God who can transcend our words, and one I can trust with my life.
The question is, are we where he is? Are we living with those who cling to God?
