God's Blog

Mood: Tired
Listening to: Captain Pugwash Theme.

I'm back. Things have really been getting quite hot while I have been busy with geophysical events. Anyway I hope the stitching I did on the seismic fault that runs from Kashmir down to New Guinea holds for a few thousand years because I have to stop youse guys doing things that are making the permafrost melt in Siberia, Alaska and Northern Canada. First of all thanks to Ghost Girl and Shellbug for their support, but please ladies, don't get involved. Critics of My blog might feel a need to defend their God because he's a wuss, but I can look after myself. You can both feel very good about yourselves for being such a pair of angels though. Yes that's a big thing we have over the Christians, my followers are allowed to give themselves a pat on the back - those poor buggers are guilty of something whatever they do. There's no self abasement with Dagda. Hey that's not bad, we could use it as a marketing slogan. Don't let the evangelicals grab ya, theres no self abasement with The Dagda. Ace! How do I feel when some fundamentalist type calls me pussy-ass (I guess she meant to say I'm a c**t. They're so polite.) Dismayed I think is the word, although I have been called a lot worse by fundamentalists, usually when they are pointed towards the "down" escalator. Now name calling like that is water off a Dagda's back but when it came in response to my making time specially to answer that person's concern about whether "Baal Gods" should be avoided I must admit it pissed me off a little. What I was trying to explain was that Baal simply means The Lord and so the pagans mentioned in the Bible are worshipping the same God as the Jews, just going about it differently. The Jewish people back then were like the British and Americans in modern times, arrogant and lazy. They couldn't be arsed learning about other languages and cultures and so they just expected everybody would bust a gut to be like them. A great man once said "the past is a foreign country, they do things differently there." Well you all need to remember that foreign countries are foreign countries and they all have their own way of doing things. France is grubby and a tad smelly, Germans can appear abrupt and ill mannered, in Spain and Portugal nothing gets done in a hurry, while if the Irish were any more laid back they would be lying down. But in all these places things are the way they are because that's how folks like it. You don't have to be a god to understand that. Its the same with gods too, we all have our own way of doing things. The things to avoid are worship of money and material things, worship of power, worship of celebrity and worship of allegedly ancient scriptures that were in fact written 500 years ago by a guy called John Milton (1608 - 1674.) Poor Milton once wrote that he wrote about religion in the hope of gaining wealth and fame. A few years later a new King who was not a puritan came along and poor Milton was disgraced and thrown into prison. And God showed his appreciation by sending our Johnny blind. Doesn't that story bring to mind names like Jim Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart and a few others? So much for wealth and fame. You know, I can't help noticing that the people who introduce themselves by saying "I'm a Christian" are almost always the ones most attached to money, power and fame. The Pagans on the other hand just want to have some fun and learn what they can from the experience of living. Nobody is forced to read this blog. If you don't like it just click through. But if you do want to ask questions or make comments please do not respond to my answer by telling me I am wrong. I am never wrong, I am Dagda. All comments are welcome, but remember you manners or I may turn you into a toad. Now as I am still very busy I asked the mammy, Dana - Great Mother of All Things and senior Goddess of the Irish pantheon to pop by and explain how the whole network of gods and goddesses operates. You'd better be warned about Dana though, she don't take no shite from anyone (she's Irish) and has, as we Celts say "a bit of a gob on her" so you can expect some pretty ripe language. And when Dana has been round I will get some of the others to call round. Dylan might be a bit of a problem though, he is convinced you Christians stole something of his. Now any questions, just get in touch with me but please don't start yelling when you don't get the answer you wanted.