{"id":2197,"date":"2013-03-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/35.224.237.165\/index.php\/2019\/02\/25\/god-to-take-matters-into-own-hands\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T04:59:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T21:59:56","slug":"god-to-take-matters-into-own-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/16\/god-to-take-matters-into-own-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"God to Take Matters into Own Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n<h6>By <a href=\"\/search?author=Daniel Moattar\">Daniel Moattar<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6>Feb. 24, 2014<\/h6>\n<p>\tCiting &#8220;grave misconduct,&#8221; &#8220;lack of accountability,&#8221; and &#8220;continually declining standards,&#8221; area deity God has committed to restoring direct oversight of Earth and surrounding areas beginning in fiscal year 2014. After nearly six thousand years&#8217; troubled management of celestial affairs by human representatives, the Good Lord has resumed his role as divine moderator, and promises to use a &#8220;heavy hand&#8221; in restoring spiritual order. \t&#8220;If I&#8217;ve learned anything from this debacle,&#8221; God said in a public statement delivered across all time and space, &#8220;it&#8217;s not to send a mortal, fallible species to do My job.&#8221;\t<\/p>\n<p>God&#8217;s statement, transmitted directly into the souls of mankind to resonate eternally, consists entirely of the following: &#8220;The divine authority of all earthly manifestations, including the Holy See, the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism, and people who claim to be &#8216;spiritual but not religious&#8217; is herewith revoked, effective immediately. Humanity now answers directly to the omnipotent, omniscient godhead, who will conduct weekly inspections going forward.&#8221; For unknown reasons, the Unitarian Church has been exempted from God&#8217;s declaration.<\/p>\n<p>Humanity becomes, with this decision, the first cancelled project of divine delegation. &#8220;Look at the deer, guys,&#8221; God said. &#8220;You don&#8217;t see them killing each other in church. They don&#8217;t set anything on fire because of their opinions on tax-increment financing. They just graze, worship Deer God, and stand in front of cars. Can&#8217;t you all be more like them?\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was tempted to skip town and tell you to work it out yourselves, but I&#8217;ve put a lot of time into this project, I&#8217;ve got clients waiting for results, and I&#8217;d like to salvage something worthwhile. My team is gonna have a lot of questions if this doesn&#8217;t pan out.&#8221;\t<\/p>\n<p>The Almighty  was last seen morosely updating his LinkedIn profile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daniel Moattar Feb. 24, 2014 Citing &#8220;grave misconduct,&#8221; &#8220;lack of accountability,&#8221; and &#8220;continually declining standards,&#8221; area deity God has committed to restoring direct oversight of Earth and surrounding areas beginning in fiscal year 2014. After nearly six thousand years&#8217; troubled management of celestial affairs by human representatives, the Good Lord has resumed his role as divine moderator, and promises to use a &#8220;heavy hand&#8221; in restoring spiritual order. &#8220;If I&#8217;ve learned anything from this debacle,&#8221; God said in a public statement delivered across all time and space, &#8220;it&#8217;s not to send a mortal, fallible species to do My job.&#8221; God&#8217;s statement, transmitted directly into the souls of mankind to resonate eternally, consists entirely of the following: &#8220;The divine authority of all earthly manifestations, including the Holy See, the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism, and people who claim to be &#8216;spiritual but not religious&#8217; is herewith revoked, effective immediately. Humanity now answers directly to the omnipotent, omniscient godhead, who will conduct weekly inspections going forward.&#8221; For unknown reasons, the Unitarian Church has been exempted from God&#8217;s declaration. Humanity becomes, with this decision, the first cancelled project of divine delegation. &#8220;Look at the deer, guys,&#8221; God said. &#8220;You don&#8217;t see them killing each other in church. They don&#8217;t set anything on fire because of their opinions on tax-increment financing. They just graze, worship Deer God, and stand in front of cars. Can&#8217;t you all be more like them? &#8220;I was tempted to skip town and tell you to work it out yourselves, but I&#8217;ve put a lot of time into this project, I&#8217;ve got clients waiting for results, and I&#8217;d like to salvage something worthwhile. My team is gonna have a lot of questions if this doesn&#8217;t pan out.&#8221; The Almighty was last seen morosely updating his LinkedIn profile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-komono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3230,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions\/3230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}