Sunday Schoolism #28: There Is A God

Father Cavanaugh, in the 1993 movie Rudy, made a statement that deserves repetition: "Son, in thirty-five years of religious study, I've come up with only two hard, incontrovertible facts: there is a God, and I'm not Him" (Pizzo 1993). The reason I think this bears repeating is that it seems to me as I read the Bible that the great crime of humanity from the garden until today is that we always find some way to move ourselves into the center of our own universe. We make ourselves the ultimate judges of moral "good", the great lovers of our own souls, the beings to whom all resources should come. Indeed, the very heartbeat of fallen humanity is to remake God into our image, rather than to allow him to remake us into his.

                                                                                    Sandra Ritcher
                                                                                    The Epic of Eden: Isaiah