My Sunday sermon. Totally free, you're not forced to read it and very short.

The other day I was on this website called nextdoor. It's an app/website that is social media for neighborhoods. An older woman had made a post about having had important papers bundled together on top of her car and they flew off and she pulled over to pick them up. As she did a number of other people pulled over and assisted her. She was expressing her gratitude towards the strangers and her overall heartwarming experience.

As I started to read the comments I was struck by how so many people made comments that had nothing to do with these helpful strangers but instead stated how wonderful God is. I commented to point out that this was a wonderful thing by the strangers but was about them and not any god. It was then mentioned by (a more deep thinking Christian?) that God simply put all these people together at the appropriate place and time, etc. It's a perfect example of “the god gap”. Whatever isn't known or understood is God. Fact is whatever isn't understood or known simply is not understood or known, nothing else. What happens via magic fairy dust for some happens through well understood natural processes for others. Knowledge is relative and so is God.

For some everything goes through God. That's fine but why point it out to anyone? It's like if someone says they have cancer and someone responds by saying “I'm praying for you”. OK, you're telling me that you're going to talk to your imaginary friend on my behalf. I get the sentiment by why not simply express the sentiment rather than bring up your imaginary friend?

There is a universal nature and it's truth. Truth can only be found via knowledge not mythology, superstition and magical beings.