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Idol Worship: God as a White-Trash Girlfriend
March 10, 2009
By Joel Riley
I have this theory that I'm sure we have all observed
or been victim of at one point or another in our lives; it's based
off the idea that when we watch the show COPS we see these girlfriends
who are bruised and beaten, but yet are still in love with their
drunk and abusive boyfriends--why won't she leave him? It's so obvious
to us the viewer, but yet we cannot get to the lady on the other
side of the TV screen to shake her out of her self-imposed helpless
abuse from that Neanderthal.
Off this image comes the “white trash girlfriend theory” wherein
we know some girls who are in a relationship that is completely
unfair to the female. The guy either is a “player,” an unthankful
brut, or just flat verbally abusive. The girl in the relationship
deserves better and she needs to get out as it is damaging her inner
being as the male in the relationship manipulates said female's
emotions any way he likes. He uses her for his own selfish desires
and treats her as second-rate trash the rest of the time. Now I
am not trying to be a feminist, but the point is no matter what
we tell the girl and how she needs to get out of the relationship,
the girl will still choose to stay with evil boyfriend. She may
even acknowledge the need to leave him and may even tell herself
she is leaving him, but it is all for naught as the female
soon enough goes running back to the guy as if it was the
emotional damage that was her life source. And these girls
that we know are no white trash citizens, but yet they act like
the white trash girls on the TV. Hence the white trash girlfriend
theory.
Who is Your God?
Many of us, we treat God like a white trash girlfriend.
It is not that we are emotionally and verbally abusive to God, but
like a bad boyfriend, we use God for intimacy (to feel Him), but
do not want the obligation of being strapped down by His rules holding
us back from our freedom. We treat Him like royalty in Church and
when we want to feel close to Him, but our actions apart from Him
display that we are completely unloyal as we flirt and meander with
pagan rituals and worship the idols that bind us.
It is not that God Himself is a white trash girlfriend but merely
that is the role we assign Him to in our lives. We think
that because we can still feel His Spirit on occasion that therein
is His validation that God is perfectly content in His role as the
submissive girlfriend to us being the dominate authority in the
relationship.
The irony of course is that we are supposed to be the ones in the
female slot in the relationship with our well-being under complete
subjection to God as our mate and higher authority. While we may
be deceptively playing the role of Abusive white trash boyfriend,
we in reality need to be in the role as a mere white blood cell
within the body of the respected and loved female within the relationship
whereupon we are never harmed under the love and mercy and protection
of the groom's care.
ninetyandnine.com
© 2009, Joel Riley
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Joel Riley is a recent graduate of the University
of Michigan and is currently attending Urshan Graduate School of
Theology for his MTS. He spends his free time arguing with atheistic
philosophers in his head, fixing the difficulties of our century,
and engaging in formal picnics.
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