Heavenly fatherliness #31 - Provider

According to popular wisdom, a good father provides for the whole family.

Mormons know and teach their young children that a father's role is first and foremost to provide for his family. I'm not entirely sure what "provide" is supposed to mean, but I'm pretty sure it has to do with money so the family has a roof to sleep under and food to eat (providing everything else the family needs is a mother's job).

The point is that our Heavenly Father loves us so much that he have us another father - an "earthly" one - to do all the stuff that He would do if he were here. He's basically delegated the work for the time being, but don't forget that everything we have comes as a blessing from Him. Anything your earthly father brings home came from God because God made everything (through Jesus).

The human family stands largely in need, but you can't blame God for all the negligent earthly fathers. You just can't. It's not God's fault that those who have do not share. He can't make them share. There's nothing questionable about the way Heavenly Father distributes his blessings.

*These attributes represent the popular thoughts of Ask Men’s Jullian Marcus, examiner.com’s Tanya Tringali, and Open Talk Magazine’s Glenn Silvestre as per their respective articles on what makes a good father.

Heavenly fatherliness #11 - School work

According to popular wisdom, a good father helps his children with their school work.

Oh, how I wish I had done well on the the exams I said a prayer for!

As much as folks might like to say God is always inspiring the genius of men and blessing us through science, etc., the fact is that those who are born into privileged conditions enjoy privileged educations (regardless of their beliefs). God's a shitty helper if only for the fact that he favors education for the wealthy and disregards the vast majority of everyone else, but let's not forget all those tests we studied so hard for, prayed so earnestly about, and still didn't get an A.

*These attributes represent the popularized and popularizing thoughts of Ask Men’s Jullian Marcus, examiner.com’s Tanya Tringali, and Open Talk Magazine’s Glenn Silvestre as per their respective articles on what makes a good father.

Heavenly fatherliness #1 - Sticking around

According to popular wisdom, a good father does not abandon his children.

Mormons like to think that God is always there watching and listening to you. He's never far away even though you might feel alone.

I say bullshit. We can make lists all day of people who claim to have seen god or to have been heard by God but let's be real here: there are no confirmed sightings in the history of humanity, just stories we have to accept on one's word.

Isn't it a little contradictory for us to say that God sent us here alone to test our faith and then claim that God's here too? We might not be banished eternally from Heaven like the evil third, but we are, according to the official story, not allowed back whenever we want. Is being banished all that different from being abandoned? God is very much out of the picture.

The evidence of abandonment is all too obvious if we look at the rampant suffering and chaotic nature of existence. Blame it on Satan if you want, but don't turn around and say God's in control. God's children suffer mercilessly and he is nowhere to be seen, heard, felt, tasted, or smelled.

If you were to walk onto some guys property and see his children starving, dying of sickness, naked, and killing each other, you'd think "holy shit, this jerk's the worst dad in the universe" and immediately call child services. 

*These attributes represent the popular thoughts of Ask Men’s Jullian Marcus, examiner.com’s Tanya Tringali, and Open Talk Magazine’s Glenn Silvestre as per their respective articles on what makes a good father.