Does God speak with a Texas drawl?

God speaks and acts through every single human on the planet in some fashion, (even those who live miserable destructive lives, he speaks of what we should not do)

But as to God speaking directly 'to' us? Maybe with a Texas drawl?

According to GW Bush, God told him to invade Iraq (which caused the deaths of 15,000 civilians, and over 1,000 Americans, and is a sore on the face of the earth that probably won't heal for decades)

If he is hearing voices that telling him to go murder people, he should be committed, not in charge of the most powerful military of the face of the earth. (Of course, Iraq is simply war for profit, and GW is full of crap)

I have a major concern with people that claim God talks to them. What a cop out. It's like saying the devil made me do it. A lot of Evangelical preachers say the same thing. God told me this, God told me that... Excuse me, but what a bunch of hogwash.

If you believe that God is actually 'speaking' to you, I really hope you have a pure heart and clear motives, because people can justify all sorts of reprehensible behavior by dismissing their personal responsibility and giving that over to a phantasm whispering in their ear.

At any rate, the so-called 'word of God' that is contained in the bible is simply men claiming that God spoke to them. Many of them may have believed that God was directing their vocal chords or controlling their pens, but in a free will universe, that just isn't how it works.

Divinely inspired, yes, I'll grant that. We are all in contact with our higher selves, our spirit guides and our guardian angels (if we recognize such energies in our lives), but no one speaks for us. Even people who channel and invite disembodied personalities to speak through them, are simply a conduit for higher energies. Many who claim that they talk to God (and truly believe it) are simply channeling certain astral or causal plane spiritual energies through their higher self.

But that is not God. God is beyond the beyond. (heh, I like that!) To personify the vast, all-encompassing energy of God (which contains EVERYTHING physical and non-physical) and assign him a Texas drawl and a medieval mentality does not compute to me....

;0)

Wiz