Chicago, USA.

"Good God."

People always say that.

James Brown even says it... but when he says it "God" sounds all funky and cool and shit. Like some cool kid who's smoking a cigarette after shoplifting.

It's not really that impressive of a statement. After all, the word "good" is derived from "God", just as the word "evil" is derived from "Devil". Just as the word "Burgler" is derived from "Hamburgler".

The knee bone's connected to the leg bone indeed.

Anyways...

The idea of having to state that your Lord is "Good" is positively ridiculous. It's much more novel to say something like "Bad God" or even "Passively Indifferent God".

If one is to believe that God is the maker of everything and king of the world, then calling him "good" is somewhat redundant.

Joan Osbourne once wrote a song called "One of Us" which is impressive partly because of the God-as-simpleton subject matter but mainly in that it is one of the only covers that Prince has ever performed. If Prince covers your shit, then you've genuinely earned the extra leap day of life once every four years. There were two songs in the 1990s that dealt with anthropomorphism, the other being Dishwalla's "Counting Blue Cars" which didn't really do much for me aside from making me less cool just by having it enter my ears.

I don't particularly understand certain things about the world.

Like the need to publically reaffirm your faith or lack thereof.

It's massively ridiculous.

It's like the Gatekeeper running around Central Park looking for the Keymaster.