Response to Bill O’Reilly who is angry with God

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I was just hearing that Bill is angry with God about a lack of protection. I can’t make any determination about his guilt. I don’t know if he is or isn’t guilty of sexual harassment, but I can say that i don’t think that God is to blame.

If I were to assume that Bill is innocent, I would say to Bill that it isn’t God who clothes people in lies. Jesus was clothed as a blasphemer and a liar. He was beaten, mocked, and crucified. I believe he warned those that follow him that they may also have to endure such things and that they would not be spared. So, if Bill has been clothed as a womanizer and a liar, wrongfully, he has my sympathy, but he shouldn’t blame God. However, if Bill is guilty, then he should repent of his statement, because he clothes God as a sinner (against himself) while being guilty of the sin. That is very serious.

May God guide him.
 
I can hardly wait for him to get over his anger so he can write a book about his new relationship with God in the wake of the scandal. That’s sarcasm btw.
 
I dunno, that was a whole ton of money to pay out for being not guilty.
 
I recall reading somewhere that we often are “angry with God” but just don’t admit it. We are, some say, better off spiritually if we do admit it. One recalls St. Teresa of Avila who was on a journey when her carriage tipped over, dumping her on the ground. She addressed God aloud this way: “If this is the way you treat your friends, it’s no wonder you have so few of them.”

O’Reilley’s comment at first seemed embarrassing to me. Why say such a thing publicly, even if it’s so? But then, if St. Teresa hadn’t said it publicly, we wouldn’t know she said it.

I don’t know if O’Reilley has slipped his tether or is just expressing one of those kind of now-obscure “Catholic things” we sometimes forget about in this secular and recklessly psychoanalytic environment.
 
Initially it doesn’t speak to his guilt or lack of it but it does suggest he lacks humility and that to me suggests that he is guilty as charged. I know more abusers than most people and none of them are guilty, not really [sarc]. Even the one’s who admit guilt don’t really believe it; they are just saying what they think people want to hear.
 
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