Then why haven’t they been influenced enough by those who say I’m to be feared to stop
their self-destructive behaviors?
Huh?
Religion has been around for centuries, telling people I’ll send them to hell if they don’t
believe in Me this way or that way, and if they don’t stop certain behaviors.
I know. I know that.
Well, do you see those behaviors being stopped?
No, not really. The human race is killing itself, just as it always has.
Faster, actually, than it ever has, because now you have weapons of mass destruction.
And we’re being no less cruel to each other now than we ever were.
That’s My observation as well. So what makes you think that if after centuries—millennia,
really—of religion not having easily influenced people, that somehow you’re going to easily
influence them, and also then be personally accountable for their actions?
I don’t know. I guess I just need to think that once in a while, in order to temper my actions.
Why? What are you afraid you would do if you didn’t temper your actions?
I’d shout from the highest rooftop that I have found, at last, a God I could love! I’d invite
everyone else to meet my God, and to know Him as I do! I’d share everything I know about
You with everyone whose life I touch! I’d free people of their fear of You, and therefore their
fear of each other! I’d free them of their fear of death!
And for this you think God is going to punish you?
Well, if I have it wrong about You, You will. Or He will. Or It will—whatever.
I will not. Oh, Neale, Neale, Neale ... if your biggest crime is that you’ve painted a picture of a
God too loving,