Is God Your Enemy?
Maybe
While holidaying in Tasmania, I visited the MONA (Museum of Old and New Art). The Tasmania Travel Guide describes it as:
Australia’s largest private museum and one of the most controversial private collections of modern art and antiquities in the world.
Wandering around for two hours, I found myself agreeing with Tasmania Travel Guide, finding some of the installations confronting, intriguing, nightmarish, bewildering, or challenging.
One art piece was a large poster on a wall that stated:
God
Is
Your
Enemy
The Oxford Dictionary defines “enemy” as a person who is actively opposed or hostile to someone or something, or a thing that harms or weakens something else.
So, this poster was making an interesting (and for many people, a confronting) point.
I spent quite a few years of my life fearing and trying to appease and please a God conjured from the King James Version of the Bible. This God demanded I worship and obey him. I finally gave up the struggle and decided to just live the best way I could, harm no one, appreciate nature, and no longer try to…
