Universalism II

The foundational idea behind Universalism is that everyone will be saved. By saved, I think it means that everyone will be reconciled with God. Said another way, God's love is too strong to reject anyone - that means anyone. No one gets rejected and sent to hell. In set theory that means the universal set of all of life. Nice how it's named universal set, huh? Well, all life will be reconciled with God...that means you and me and Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein and Dick Cheney and George Bush. Now to tell you the truth, I don't consider any of those guys the kind of people I want to grouped together with, but Universalism says I am. Now that's a hell of a deal (pun intended)! Could it be true that the same God that George Bush believes annointed him to rid the world of evil is the God of Osama Bin Laden calling him to do the same? According to Universalism the answer is yes - and no. Yes, the same God will be reconciled with both of them, but that God probably doesn't agree that he's sending either of them out to do his bidding. Does that mean that Bush and Bin Laden are off doing the work of some false God? I don't know how false he can be, I mean the results look pretty damn real to me! There are something like 30,000 people dead in just the last 2 1/2 years because of those two guys. Thirty thousand dead people, the majority of whom didn't worship either of their Gods. Just who is this Universalist God that would be so loving toward everyone that he would accept either of those guys? Wow, that boggles the mind. I don't know, it sometimes seems easier just to say there ain't no God like that. He would just be too unfair to be worthy of worship. I mean, fairness is a human value, and allegedly God gave us those values. But, he doesn't think enough of them to follow them himself? I don't know...I just don't know.
- posted by Marcos @ 10:47 PM