God Isn’t Mad at Anybody - Rev. Paul Gonyea

“I don’t think many people feel that God is mad at them personally. However, I do believe there are more and more people who think that God either is, or should be mad at the same people they themselves are mad at. The problem is, it’s a very short leap between that belief and the belief that we are justified in hating, punishing or controlling those people who we believe are making God mad. In other words, some people have somehow decided that they are entitled to be the instrument of ‘God’s righteous anger’. This idea has been around a long time, but it still appears to be alive and well. And unfortunately, there is no end to the cruelty, prejudice, separation and pain that can come from this kind of thinking. That’s where most of the violence we’re seeing today is coming from.