The Lord told me to tell you this..."

Question: Why does God have to speak through preachers? Why can't he just tell each of us what he wants us to know? Every day I disseminate important information to scores of people at once. It's called email. Surely God can speak to everyone, can't he?

I'll tell why he doesn't. Two reasons. First, he doesn't really exist, and therefore has nothing to say. Second, the people who claim that God told them to give you a message are trying to control you.

You sit there every Sunday while the jackass preacher tells you what God told him or her to pass on to you, and you pay your tithes so he or she can have a nice house and an iPad and boast about the size of his or her "ministry," you.

So now you know.

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