God's omnipresence is a problem for me. Not that I mind him seeing everything I do, I just think the whole deal must be terribly dull and depressing for him. Having to sit through most of my own life is boring enough for me, but imagine having to experience the lives of everyone, simultaneously, every day. For every day since the beginning of time. Having to watch people make the same mistakes over and over again, never learning from them, then their children making the exact same mistakes, having to endure the teenage years of everyone, the ridiculous concerns and opinions and let's not even mention the horrible daily physical acts that you would have to witness.
Divine intervention has been documented, but it is very rare. How does God cope with having the power to put things right, but using it so rarely? Wouldn't you just want to scream at people, "Stop going out with him, he's clearly a wanker!" or "It isn't important which shirt you wear!" or "No, Buddhism is wrong mate, look here I am. The Catholics have it spot on!"?
Think of all those millions of years he had to endure being a spectator to the lives of the first amoebas and the millions of years of dinosaurs tearing each other apart (though of course to God that all just took six days, so I'm talking out my arse)
But the question that struck me today was, "Can God make himself not omnipresent if he wants?" He is all powerful, so presumably he should be able to take time out if he wants, but if he did that, then he's not omnipresent any more. He must be able to stop, but he can't because that would diminish his omnipotence. But the fact that he can't absent himself from say, the middle of the Sahara desert at 3 in the morning when really nothing is happening, means that he isn't all powerful after all. Of course the get out clause for all religious people is that he wouldn't want to stop being omnipresent because (and these three words cover so much) He just is. It is not for us to question Him. Because the minute you start questioning it, it all falls to pieces. How can anyone he religious?
My concern for God remains. If he is so perfect how can he stand spending all eternity witnessing the lives of the clearly imperfect people (who he's somehow managed to create, despite being perfect himself)?
Who'd be God hey? Hardest job in the world!
Another religious question, can vegetarian Catholics take part in the Eucharist? If the bread is literally becoming Jesus' body then they are eating meat, and they're drinking blood too. Is it OK if it's bread when it passes your lips, if the transition takes place somewhere in your throat. Or are vegetarianism and Catholicism two things that have no intersection on the Venn diagram of life.
